Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, what did you mean when you gave to
Speaker 1: Knight's memoir the title of the Adventure of the Red
Speaker 1: den Well.
Speaker 2: It was the type of death criminally administered by a
Speaker 2: certain gentleman in our story, mister Harrison. The adventure began
Speaker 2: at a waterfront cafe by the London Docks, which extend
Speaker 2: from the Tarer Bridge to beyond north Woolwich Mile, upon
Speaker 2: mild keys warehouses, great basins that have burst in the shipping.
Speaker 2: In the farthest corners of the earth. At the West
Speaker 2: Indian Docks, there was a cafe called the Smiling Duchess.
Speaker 2: It was frequented by men of all the seven seats
Speaker 2: in the back room. The owner, Peter Nichols, sat by
Speaker 2: a huge oaken table in the flickering candlelight, talking to
Speaker 2: a very attractive young lady named Vicki, who was employed.
Speaker 3: There was a waitress here, Vicky, Yes, Peter waiting.
Speaker 4: Too much trouble here?
Speaker 5: We act up now and then was to be expected.
Speaker 5: Has come from a home for the criminally insane? You know,
Speaker 5: tell me, Captain where.
Speaker 4: I don't remember this place?
Speaker 6: Did I ever here before? The easy?
Speaker 3: Captain Easy said that I don't remember you either all
Speaker 3: this girl?
Speaker 4: Why what I brought here?
Speaker 7: Docuse won't ask more questions.
Speaker 4: We'll wait.
Speaker 6: Oh no, you're out of that place, you see, I said, Ah,
Speaker 6: I'm Peter Nichols. Do you remember old Peter, the smiling duchess.
Speaker 5: Now don't you sadly remember me? Don't you? No man
Speaker 5: that comes here forget Vicky?
Speaker 6: I think, captain. It was just a few years ago.
Speaker 6: Every time you shipped up to here in London, you'd
Speaker 6: stopped by for a swing a rum Peter and Nichols.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, now I know you.
Speaker 6: You are out of the insane asylum, Christopher West, and
Speaker 6: you understand that.
Speaker 4: I listen to me.
Speaker 6: You're free. We got you out, me and Vicky again.
Speaker 6: We needed you. He did your talent. So Vicky spoke
Speaker 6: with a guard at the asylum. I gave her money,
Speaker 6: She used her charms. The guard let you out and
Speaker 6: tend you over to her. Ah, I see.
Speaker 4: I was confused. It happened so quickly.
Speaker 7: I'd fallen asleep in a cell here the God woke
Speaker 7: me up.
Speaker 6: You are going to enjoy yourself now, Christopher West, the
Speaker 6: way you liked her. We're going to find whatever equipment
Speaker 6: you need and you're going to start fires for us?
Speaker 7: A fire. They wouldn't let me.
Speaker 3: Most people won't admit the satisfaction, you know, but I do.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see our men's eyes light up when
Speaker 3: he sees a fire. I want to see things burn,
Speaker 3: the flames eating away in the guts of the building
Speaker 3: till it's a black hunk.
Speaker 7: Where When do we start the fire?
Speaker 4: Soon enough?
Speaker 3: Why do you want me to start it? Do you
Speaker 3: like to see things burn? Do you love the flames
Speaker 3: that I do?
Speaker 6: Yes, cap'n West. That's why there's a warehouse near by
Speaker 6: on Cuba Street, by the Southwest India Dock Pier. I
Speaker 6: want to see it burn. That's why we took you
Speaker 6: out of that awful hospital.
Speaker 7: Ay, I am grateful for that.
Speaker 3: He you won't let me start fires, and when I can't,
Speaker 3: I is pressure in me.
Speaker 7: He I can't stand it.
Speaker 4: We need you.
Speaker 6: You can start fires so quickly, so easily, so surely,
Speaker 6: and no one will know when to night, Captain West.
Speaker 4: To night. You have the equipment, Captain wist.
Speaker 7: Here's Peter on ready go on with me to back
Speaker 7: at the inn.
Speaker 5: Good, good, go on, captain, start the fire.
Speaker 6: That's it hid behind these bails, Vickie, I'll watch him.
Speaker 6: Wait he shadows disappearance in the dark. There, I'll wait.
Speaker 7: Bear the flame sealm.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's spreading quickly.
Speaker 6: A marvelous idea of mine. I Vicky West doesn't know
Speaker 6: what we'll do now while the fire is blazing. If
Speaker 6: they suspect Arson, they'll chase him, not us. We can
Speaker 6: always deny having anything to do with.
Speaker 4: Him if he talks.
Speaker 6: He's legally insane, irresponsible.
Speaker 5: You're curiously, we be a leef. We're are part of
Speaker 5: the job to do.
Speaker 7: Now, come on.
Speaker 8: Your name is Edwards, George Edwards, mister Holmes. I'm the
Speaker 8: director of the Hampton County Hospital for the Criminaliency.
Speaker 7: Are you a physician?
Speaker 8: No, doctor Watson. Mine is a political post, which is
Speaker 8: why I've come here to Baker Street.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, Just why have you come here?
Speaker 8: The patient has escaped terribly dangerous man, Captain Christopher West, paramaniac.
Speaker 8: He's been responsible for the destruction of millions of pounds
Speaker 8: worth of property, the hospitalization of hundreds of fire victims,
Speaker 8: in the death of a considerable number of others.
Speaker 4: I see, why haven't you adopted the ordinary procedure and
Speaker 4: alarmed the police.
Speaker 7: If I were to tell.
Speaker 8: The police, mister Holst, there'd be investigation, My political opponents
Speaker 8: would charge me with incompetence, and I'd lose my post.
Speaker 7: You must find this maniac, will you?
Speaker 8: Mister Holmes?
Speaker 4: Can you describe this Captain West?
Speaker 8: I brought our file card his portrait characteristics.
Speaker 4: Yes, intriguing the circumstances of his escape, mister d What
Speaker 4: you looked into that?
Speaker 8: I presume I hees, mister Holmes, a bigger guard who's
Speaker 8: care seemed left the cell door open. Westmasters stoolen down
Speaker 8: the hallway and then over the wall.
Speaker 7: Well is it a simple matter to climb over your
Speaker 7: protective wall?
Speaker 8: Were you, gentlemen implying that I've been lagged?
Speaker 4: But it's curious, sir, that an escape from a home
Speaker 4: for the insane, which should be child's play, a glance
Speaker 4: in the wrong direction by the guard, and the entire
Speaker 4: city of London's menaced curious juxtaposition effects, mister Edwards. Your juxtaposition,
Speaker 4: mister Holmes, Come Watson a camp. We're after the docks.
Speaker 4: By the docks because of this dossier I've read about
Speaker 4: Captain West. He was a sea captain with a great
Speaker 4: passenger ship. He was ordered to retire by his firm.
Speaker 4: He refused. When the firm insisted, he became furious. He
Speaker 4: desired revenge. He set fire to their ships as they
Speaker 4: lay in the docks. He found there was an immense
Speaker 4: satisfaction in creating fires. It became a pyromaniac. Always in
Speaker 4: the area of the sea, always a fire that threatened
Speaker 4: the harbor and the ships at anchor. There we're after
Speaker 4: the docks. Watson and mister Edwards. Not a word to
Speaker 4: a soul.
Speaker 8: He should be absolutely mum missed.
Speaker 4: The silence is not so much in your interest as
Speaker 4: in that of the good people of London. Can you
Speaker 4: conceive of anything more likely to start a panic than
Speaker 4: the fact that tonight a pidomaniac runs a muck in
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Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, You and mister Holmes were dashing
Speaker 1: to the ducks of London to find Christopher West.
Speaker 4: The escape Pyromania.
Speaker 2: We were, mister Harris, that night. Our carriage raced across
Speaker 2: the cobblestones by the edge of the water, as the
Speaker 2: silhouettes of countless ships passed to our ride. London's fabulous
Speaker 2: docks flew past the giant grenaries, the endless acres of
Speaker 2: bales and packing boxes, the crates of wool and irony,
Speaker 2: the pungent odors of ile and coffee spiced well, hose,
Speaker 2: You know as well as I do that London's docks
Speaker 2: are forty five miles long.
Speaker 7: How shall we find this Captain West?
Speaker 4: He's already announced his whereabout Watson? He has smoke, see
Speaker 4: it curling up toward the sky from that warehouse on
Speaker 4: Cura Street.
Speaker 7: Well, Joe, he's been here and it worked too.
Speaker 4: Evident that the fire has been extinguished. We shall steal
Speaker 4: into this warehouse and see what we may see.
Speaker 7: Cop here, driver.
Speaker 4: And step down. Watson, keep the change, driver and wait here. Now,
Speaker 4: let us hope that this smoldering ruin has been abandoned
Speaker 4: except for a watch one or two. Then we may
Speaker 4: examine this warehouse without incompetent meddling from the police. Careful,
Speaker 4: Watson will be extremely dangerous.
Speaker 7: Yes, running wood, loose beams, blasted.
Speaker 4: Smoke, Keep your hands over your mouth. You shall proceed
Speaker 4: very quietly into this wreckage, slowly, carefully. The maniac may
Speaker 4: be hiding here.
Speaker 7: Well, we've searched extensively. Hose any clusion.
Speaker 4: I can confirm, Watson, that this fire is of incendiary origin,
Speaker 4: most likely therefore the work of Christopher West.
Speaker 7: How can you confirm it?
Speaker 4: By those dark stains upon the floor they look like ink?
Speaker 4: Quite and carrying his bottle of ink, wests skilled a
Speaker 4: few drops accidentally as he ran.
Speaker 7: But why inkos this ink?
Speaker 4: Watson is the type frequently employed for marking purposes at
Speaker 4: a laundry.
Speaker 7: Well converse, I'm more mystified than ever.
Speaker 4: Certain laundry inks Watson contain a compound that may be
Speaker 4: made highly exclusive, so much so that they ignite themselves.
Speaker 4: Of course, assisted by bits of cotton and sawdust or paper,
Speaker 4: they'll soon create a considerable blaze. This is an empty warehouse.
Speaker 4: It's most unlikely that laundry ink would be found here
Speaker 4: unless it were brought in by a sabbatur.
Speaker 7: Look hose to the window another fire.
Speaker 4: Ron, Watson, he must reach that fire. Unless we make haste,
Speaker 4: we shall never find Christopher West.
Speaker 2: Oh, who goes the last of the farmer Hose. They've
Speaker 2: managed to extinguish the second blaze. They'll probably be a
Speaker 2: third short.
Speaker 4: List, Yes, Watson, doesn't the geography of these two gutted
Speaker 4: warehouses strike you as fascinating?
Speaker 7: The geography Hose?
Speaker 4: Yes, think of their positions. Then the fact that both
Speaker 4: were deserted before the blaze began? Will Is that lead
Speaker 4: you hoes close to the solution? Watson?
Speaker 7: Then you know where Christopher West can be found, Not.
Speaker 4: Just yet, but that may be determined quickly by my
Speaker 4: retiring to the King Neptune, which is at a popular
Speaker 4: tavern nearby, for a.
Speaker 7: Glass of beer.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of persons may be trapped and burned alive in
Speaker 2: the next few hours because this parameniac is scurrying about
Speaker 2: fendously starting fires. You will retire into a tavern glass
Speaker 2: of beer.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've no use for the stuff. I assure you
Speaker 4: will offend my taste. My preference for wine and for
Speaker 4: a certain vintage cannot be satisfied however, at the King Neptune. Therefore,
Speaker 4: I'm a strink beer. Wait by my carriage, Watson. I
Speaker 4: shall rejoin you shortly with the exact site of Christopher
Speaker 4: West's next attempt.
Speaker 6: We're doing well, Captain West, very well tonight.
Speaker 7: I'm proud in my work.
Speaker 8: Peter.
Speaker 3: Did you see the last warehouse like a great kindle
Speaker 3: in the sky?
Speaker 5: They didn't start another fire, Peter, Just one more?
Speaker 6: We need one, foolish The fire so far appeared to
Speaker 6: be accidents, at least till we've taken care of our
Speaker 6: end of this business.
Speaker 5: We haven't enough, Peter, what a bit more?
Speaker 6: A third fire would be too much.
Speaker 4: You're greedy. It should be contempt greedy.
Speaker 5: Am I? After all these years as a grubby waitress,
Speaker 5: putting up with anything those drunken sailors did just to
Speaker 5: sell another glass of beer. Oh no, Peter, you have
Speaker 5: a fine idea. We're going to see it through. For
Speaker 5: all it's work.
Speaker 6: Reed's been the ruin of more than one Vickie when.
Speaker 5: You let him start one more fire, if not for yourself,
Speaker 5: then for me. Oh Peter, we can go away together.
Speaker 5: You do want to be with me, don't you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: Let me get that out of London.
Speaker 7: Out of England.
Speaker 5: That's it. Do you know what the next fire should be?
Speaker 3: I do, come, captain, he should be more fires, Peter,
Speaker 3: many more. Now I'm like an artist who hasn't finished
Speaker 3: an exquisite painting.
Speaker 6: This way quietly, un hurry, there we are, Captain, that were.
Speaker 4: I see it.
Speaker 5: How will you start this one?
Speaker 3: This candle and this bucket a lime, both will leave
Speaker 3: no trace, They will be destroyed. I take the candle
Speaker 3: so and with one delicate stroke, with the magnificence of
Speaker 3: a great fire is born in the lime.
Speaker 7: Clever of me can have seen leads an odor.
Speaker 3: It didn't make them suspicious in not line, though, Go
Speaker 3: on west.
Speaker 7: See now now I do it again.
Speaker 3: I'll step into the warehouse.
Speaker 4: Just lift this window.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and climbing and.
Speaker 3: No Christopher, whist that wonderful moment again, that moment before
Speaker 3: you start the fire. Yet alone, free, no one to
Speaker 3: disturb you, mat.
Speaker 7: Ooser the watchman.
Speaker 3: Wait beyond this post, I us, yeah, I yet your
Speaker 3: breakingness shut up to make a sound of breaking knick,
Speaker 3: I can snip it like this. I'm going to start
Speaker 3: a fire, and you won't stop them.
Speaker 7: You won't live to see that. They take me back.
Speaker 4: Now, I won't go.
Speaker 3: I won't start the fire away I plan though, I
Speaker 3: have a much better idea. I'll start it with you.
Speaker 3: I can hold you and put the candle to your clothes.
Speaker 3: The Fasi reach your face, your eyes, your.
Speaker 7: Turn away from that fosman.
Speaker 4: Your coat, Watson, take it off, smeather of those fins.
Speaker 4: I'll keep an eye on West.
Speaker 7: Flings verse of God. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Don't attend to run off, Captain West. But I just
Speaker 4: wanted to watch one, all right, Watson? Oh are you?
Speaker 4: I am Sherlock Holmes. This is doctor John Watson, the
Speaker 4: gentleman before you was Christopher West, an escape pyromaniac glory.
Speaker 4: We shall return you to the Hampton Hospital. Captain will
Speaker 4: I'll never go back. You won't have to go back.
Speaker 4: This revolver in my hand. Make sure that vision, Nichols.
Speaker 6: I don't wait for the revolver in your coat, Doctor Watson,
Speaker 6: just that.
Speaker 4: Way you are?
Speaker 5: You talk us wrong? You were just in time.
Speaker 6: Peter come along, Captain, we'll go all of us. He'll
Speaker 6: kill us, hollow, doctor Watson. I'm a my two wives
Speaker 6: for that.
Speaker 4: You see. If I know favor catch up with me.
Speaker 6: I'll serve time. I won't hang for murder.
Speaker 4: You'll serve time, Peter Nichols for rubbing the warehouses adjacent
Speaker 4: to those where you had west start the fires. Perhaps
Speaker 4: the robberies haven't been discovered yet. Eh, the silks, the perfume,
Speaker 4: the furs you plan to take during this third fire,
Speaker 4: and that that catch make firsts. Come on, captain your past.
Speaker 7: Who run the key behind you, and I'll fight the horse.
Speaker 4: Just go after them homes and fight once some tea
Speaker 4: I change his mind to shoot? Just wait, wait, now,
Speaker 4: what's in your revolver? Take it? If they want to
Speaker 4: play hide and seek in and out of these countless
Speaker 4: crates and bales along these dots, we'll play their game.
Speaker 7: I'm exhausted, hose my leg. See a new sign of them.
Speaker 4: I saw a glimpse of Vicky's colored dress off to
Speaker 4: the left by the gangways of the wineboards. Very quietly, Watson.
Speaker 4: They may be concealing themselves behind a stack of wine barrels.
Speaker 7: That's where I saw VICKI I think the three of
Speaker 7: them are there.
Speaker 4: Yes, shall we look? No, they might be waiting for
Speaker 4: us to do just that, and they punch upon us.
Speaker 4: Now we take a chance to mean he fired in that.
Speaker 2: Directionroom, scushing from the barrels where I shot Peter, the captain,
Speaker 2: the girl who sign of them?
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, you got them?
Speaker 7: How can you be sure?
Speaker 4: Look there spatter on the base of the barrels, Watson, blood.
Speaker 2: Well hoops before you light your private and relax into
Speaker 2: one of your typical Baker Street reveries, from which I
Speaker 2: do not dare to disturb.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 2: Tell me how did you know Christopher west would be
Speaker 2: at the particular warehouse or you felt?
Speaker 4: Will you recall Watson? By mentioning the geography of the
Speaker 4: burnt warehouses, I observed that although each was empty, each
Speaker 4: was also directly beside another warehouse which contained priceless merchandise
Speaker 4: on It occurred to me that this was a maneuver
Speaker 4: whereby some one Peter Nichols, as it developed, had deliberately
Speaker 4: freed Captain Weston set him loose to start fires. Peter,
Speaker 4: whose an old hand at the Wards, must have known
Speaker 4: the west case and the merchandise. The fire, you see,
Speaker 4: distracted the police, and during the excitement Peter and Vickie
Speaker 4: would sneak into the adjacent warehouse and help themselves.
Speaker 7: Ah, I see, But how did you know exactly which
Speaker 7: warehouse would be next.
Speaker 4: Will you recall I left you to visit the King
Speaker 4: Neptune tavern by drinking a beer with a seaman. There.
Speaker 4: It was a simple matter to listen to their eternal
Speaker 4: gossip and to determine which warehouse had recently received a
Speaker 4: shipment of highly priced goods that indicated the spot where
Speaker 4: West would most probably strike next.
Speaker 2: Pleasured homes, Why do these things seem so utterly obvious
Speaker 2: after you've explained.
Speaker 4: Because weak minds are like a microscope, magnifying trifling things,
Speaker 4: but unable to receive the larger ones. However, for your
Speaker 4: humble servant, Elementary, my dear Watson, Elementary, a