WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.120 Nations of Sherlock Holmes. 2 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:06.120 The original and Immortal stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 3 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:10.720 dramatized Dunn. You were Sir John Gilbert and Sherlock Holmes, 4 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:15.119 and Sir Ralph Richardson as our storyteller, Doctor James Watson. 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.679 Many of the cases of Sherlock Holmes were private affairs 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.719 that made no stir outside the family circles involved. 7 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:27.000 But the disappearance of. 8 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:31.039 Silver Blaze was a matter which set the whole country 9 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:35.520 by the ears. For not merely had this horse, the 10 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.119 favorite for the Wessex Cup, vanished for a week before 11 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:43.600 the great race, but his trainer had also been tragically murdered. 12 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:46.439 Give it a. 13 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.520 Small villa about two hundred yards from. 14 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.479 The stable, and see who has some newspapers there, Watson. 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.320 Let's see what they have to say about the matter. 16 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:00.399 Oh well, here's here's the morning post it. Yes, sir, 17 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.319 The horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and 18 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.280 the stables locked up. At nine o'clock towld the lads 19 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.879 walked up to the trainer's house, where they had supper 20 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.400 in the kitchen, while the third near the hunter, remained 21 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:17.040 on guard. 22 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.480 A few minutes after nine, the maid Edith. 23 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.000 Baxter, carried his supper dish of curried mutton down to 24 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.879 the stables. As the path ran over the open wor. 25 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:35.040 She carried a lantern with her. About thirty yards away 26 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.079 from the stables, a man appeared out of the darkness 27 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:44.319 and called to her to stop. Excuse me, Can you 28 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:45.280 tell me where I am? 29 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.000 I had almost made up my mind to. 30 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:50.359 Step on the moor when I saw your lantern. 31 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.680 You are a close to King's piling training stable, sir. 32 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.200 I am what a stirp of blood? I understand that 33 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.040 the stable boys sleeps their learning the night. They had said, 34 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.239 his suffer carrying, Yes, sir, well, it'll be getting called yes. 35 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.400 But you wouldn't be too proud to her in the 36 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:12.240 price of a new dress, now, would job? See? The 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.560 boy gets the sack note to night, and you have 38 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.039 the prettiest dress that money can buy. Let me pass her. 39 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:20.879 I'm not getting enough to anybody. 40 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.080 The girl was frightened by his mamma, and she ran 41 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.000 past him to the stable window hatch through which she 42 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.800 always used to hand the boy his needles. The hatch 43 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.439 was already open and the boy was waiting inside. She 44 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.199 had just begun to tell him what had happened. When 45 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:39.919 the stranger came up again. 46 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.479 Day, I wanted to have a word with you, But 47 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.159 what what what business? If your business? 48 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:52.080 It may put something in your pocket through two horses 49 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.319 in for the Wessex cups over bears and they are 50 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.240 it may have a straight tipany one for the rosa. 51 00:02:58.199 --> 00:02:59.919 It is the fact that it's the waits they are 52 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.439 could give the other the hand of charms. 53 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.919 So so you're one of them, gent out, Well, I'll 54 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.120 show her. We served them at King's Pilant. Just wait, 55 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:13.800 my set the dog free ruga rubber. The boy ran 56 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.000 to unleash the dog, and the maid hurried forward of 57 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:20.759 the house, but looking back she saw the stranger leaning 58 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.039 in through the stable window. A minute later, when a 59 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:29.479 hunter rushed out with the dog, the stranger was gone. Yes, 60 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.080 that's as far as we can get through the morning post. 61 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.360 I'm afraid missus Hudson very stupidly used the other half 62 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.080 of the paper to light the farthest morning I'm sorry, 63 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:41.879 Oh no, madam, my dear fellow. The Telegraph has also 64 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:44.319 covered the color of bullifully head. 65 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:44.879 If he had. 66 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.560 A hunter on the return of his fellow brooms sent 67 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.039 a message after the trainer Straker to tell him what 68 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:55.680 has happened. Straker seems to have been vaguely uneasy about 69 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:58.159 the matter, for although he'd been to bed, he got 70 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.479 up again at one o'clock in the morning, telling his 71 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:02.159 wife that he was going down to the stable to 72 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:03.159 see if all was well. 73 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:07.080 He put on a macintosh, for it was raining heavily, and. 74 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.520 Left the house with quite a wealth of detail, my 75 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:13.400 dear Watson, and here I have the notes of Missus 76 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:14.879 Straker's statements. 77 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:17.439 After her husband had. 78 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:19.560 Gone out, she went back to sleep again and didn't 79 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.439 wait until seven o'clock in the morning. Finding him still absent, 80 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.319 she called the maid and they set off together for 81 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:33.399 the stables. They found the door wide open. Inside, huddled 82 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.240 on a chair was Hunter in a state of complete stupor. 83 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.399 The lads in the loft overhead had had nothing all night, 84 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.360 but the favorite store was empty, and there was no sign. 85 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:45.639 Of the trailer. 86 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:50.920 Hunter obviously been run undubtedly. Missus Straker and the maid 87 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.439 left him and ran up to the moor to see 88 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.800 whether the Straker had merely taken the horse out for exercise, 89 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.879 and so the murder was discovered spills you read me 90 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:04.000 the rest of Missus Straker's strapman, Oh well, there's hurt sis. 91 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:08.279 But some quarter of a mile from the stable, Missus 92 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:12.439 Straker and the maid found Straker's coat flapping from a 93 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:18.519 furze bush. Immediately beyond there was a blue shaped depression. 94 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.560 On the moor, and at the bottom of this John 95 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.959 Straker's body was found, his. 96 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.000 Head shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, 97 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.040 wounded in the fire a long. 98 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.160 King cut, evidently inflicted by some sharp in. 99 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.480 Straker had obviously tried to defend himself from. 100 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:38.959 In his left hand he. 101 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.879 Grasped a red and black silk clavette, which. 102 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.800 Was recognized by the maid as having been worn by. 103 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.560 The stranger who had spoken to her outside the stables, 104 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:53.040 until the stable boy also identified it when he recovered 105 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:58.360 from the effects of the drug. This was apparently powdered opium, 106 00:05:58.759 --> 00:05:59.720 which had been put. 107 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:00.360 Into his carried. 108 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:03.160 Nothing of that that explains what the stranger was doing 109 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.319 is in length through the stable window. For the lads 110 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.480 who were at the same heel at the trainer's house 111 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.600 were quite all right, so only one place had been drugged. 112 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.759 It goes on the sailor were abundant proofs in the 113 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.959 mud which lay at the bottom of the fatal hollow, 114 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:18.759 but the. 115 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:22.160 Missing horse, silver Blaze, had been there at the time 116 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:22.879 of the struggle. 117 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.319 Well, Watson, let a start our little journey quite agreeably, 118 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:27.600 and here. 119 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.040 We are terystant. 120 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:38.839 Terrestock lies like the boss of a shield in the 121 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.720 middle of the huge circle of Dartmoor. Two gentlemen were 122 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.319 waiting for us at the station, silver Blaze's owner a 123 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.439 well known sportsman, Colonel ross An Inspector Gregory of Scotland Yard. 124 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.120 I'm delighted that you've come down, mister Holmes. 125 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.600 But the Inspector here has done all that could possibly 126 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.879 be suggested about. I wish to leave no stone unto 127 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.680 and in find you a venged bosh paker and recover 128 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:04.759 my heart. I trust that I may be able to 129 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:08.120 assist yourself. Has there been in a fresh development, I'm 130 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:08.759 sorry to sir. 131 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:10.480 We've made very little progress. 132 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.519 As you know, we have had nowhere difficulty in tracing 133 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.680 the stranger. He was well known in the neighborhood. His 134 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.480 name is Fitzroy Simpson, man who has come down in 135 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.839 the world and lives by a little quiet and gentle 136 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.439 book making in the London Club. His books showed he 137 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:31.160 was carrying bits up the five thousand pounds against the favorite. 138 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:35.079 When confronted with the cravati, turned very pale and was 139 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.079 utterly unable to account for its. 140 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.079 Presence in the hand of the murdered man. 141 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.040 Of course, Drakler himself was wounded, wasn't he in the thigh? 142 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.879 He may have wounded himself in the convulsive struggles which 143 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.240 follow any brain injury. Excellent, my dear Watson, It's more 144 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:50.879 than possible. 145 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:52.879 It's probable, in. 146 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.839 Which case one of the main points in favor of 147 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.920 the accused disappeared. A minute later, we're all seated in 148 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.040 a comfortable land, and we're rolling through the quaint old devil. 149 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.519 Chatwn clever council will tear your case to rags. 150 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.240 Why should Simpson take the horse out of the stable 151 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:10.639 if he wished to injure it, he could do it. 152 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.800 There has a duplicate key to the stable door been 153 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:17.040 found in his possession? What chemist told him the part 154 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:21.040 of opium above? Or where could he he is a 155 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.240 stranger to the district hide a horse, and such a 156 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:25.879 horse as this. 157 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:28.279 Tell me? 158 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.839 What is his own explanation as for the note which 159 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.840 he wished the maid to get to the stable boy. 160 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.639 He says it was a ten pound note, that one 161 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:36.720 was found in his purse. 162 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.320 Also, he is not a stranger to the district. 163 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.720 He's twice large at Tavistock in the summer. The oak 164 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.159 hum he probably brought with him from London. The key, 165 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.440 having served its turn, will be hurled away. 166 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.440 As for the horse, they you're. 167 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.279 Well lie at the bottom of one of the pits 168 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.200 or old mines upon the moor. 169 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.399 What does he say about the crevette? 170 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.600 He admits that it's his and says that he lost it. 171 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.279 But a new element has been introduced into the case, 172 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.080 which mayor country is leading a horse from the stable. 173 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.320 We found traces that show the party of Gypsy's encamped 174 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.879 on Monday night within a mile of the spot where 175 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.519 the murder took place. On Tuesday they were gone. Simpson 176 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.159 may well have been leading a horse to them when. 177 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.399 He was overtaken. It's certainly possible ed the moor has 178 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:25.559 been scarred for them. 179 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.600 Meanwhile, I've examined Entry's table and outhouse in Tavistock, and 180 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:30.519 for a wagius of. 181 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.759 Ten miles there's another training stable quite close. 182 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.840 I believe yes, and that's a factor we must certainly 183 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:42.159 not neglect as desbre As their horse was second in 184 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.759 the betting. They had an interest in the disappearance of 185 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:50.000 the Silver Blaze. Silas Brown their trainer, he is known 186 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.960 have had large bets from the event, and he was 187 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:57.440 no friend of poor Straco. However, we've examined his tables 188 00:09:57.879 --> 00:09:59.000 and there's nothing. 189 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:00.440 To connect him with the affair, and. 190 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.679 Nothing to connect to Try Simpson with their interests, nothing 191 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:12.679 at all. Ah, Well, here we are. Our driver pulled 192 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.320 up at a little red brick pillar which stood by 193 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:19.480 the road. Colonel Ross asked Holmes whether he would like 194 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.519 to go on to the scene of the crime. No, 195 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.440 I think I prefer to stay here a little while 196 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:26.679 and go into one or two questions of detail. Taker 197 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:27.639 was brought back here. 198 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.399 I suppose yes, he lies upstairs. The inquest is tomorrow. 199 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.519 He's been in your service some years, Colonel. 200 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.440 I've always found him an excellent servant. 201 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.360 I presumed you made an inventory of what he had 202 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.320 in his pockets at the diame of his death, Inspector. 203 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:45.919 I had the things themselves here in the sitting room, Tiller, 204 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.279 a box of matches, twoinges of tallow candle, pencil case, 205 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.039 a few papers. 206 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.679 And the ivory handled knife. 207 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.360 Yeah, very singular knife, Watson. Surely in your life is 208 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.240 what we call a catillact knife used for surgical purposes, 209 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.879 including very delicate operations. A strange thing for a man 210 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:09.440 to carry with him on a rough expedition. 211 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.039 Why don't even shut up to go into his pocket? 212 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:12.679 The tip was. 213 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.120 Guarded by a cork which was found beside his body. 214 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:17.759 His wife tells us that he kept it for some 215 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.440 days in the dressing table and picked it up as. 216 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:21.519 He left the room. 217 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.080 A poor weapon, but perhaps the best he could lay 218 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:25.039 his hands on at the moment. 219 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:28.799 And the paper hey dealer's accounts. 220 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.360 This letter from Colonel Ross and this dressmaker's account for 221 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.879 thirty seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lejure of 222 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.240 Bond Street. I see that bill, please, certainly it's made 223 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:47.240 out through William Derbysher. William Derbysher, Missus Straker tells us 224 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.039 he was a friend of her husband, and that occasionally 225 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:52.320 letters for him will address here. 226 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.399 Had he been staying here then did Missus Straker know him? 227 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.840 I gather not, But here is Missus Straker. Jolick Holmes 228 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:02.080 missus Straker. 229 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.879 How do you do, sir? How do you do? Missus Straker? 230 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:12.759 Surely we've met before as a garden party in Plymouth recently, Now, sir, you. 231 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.360 Must be mistaken. I could have sworn it. 232 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.480 You wore a costume of dove colored colored silk with 233 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.559 ostrich feather trimmings. Never had such addressed, sir. 234 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:28.120 Well that's settles he excuse me, sir, like a word 235 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.639 with a colonel. Of course, I'll leave with you in 236 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:31.279 a moment to. 237 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.440 Holmes, Oh, Inspector Holmes, I believe you got your hand 238 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:38.639 on a clue. 239 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:39.000 Or do you? 240 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.720 As a matter of fact, I was just remembering a 241 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:45.320 really excellent curry we once set together in so Ho. 242 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.360 Sherlock Holmes next up to be shown the part where 243 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:04.960 the murder had been committed. A short walk, cross and 244 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.080 work brought us to the hollow in which the body 245 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:08.840 had been found. 246 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.120 At the brink of it was the third bush upon. 247 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.399 Which the making tooch belonging to the murdered man had 248 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.120 been hung. There was no wind that night, I understand, 249 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.759 none but deaddy had arranged. And well, in that case 250 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:24.919 the coat was not blown against the third bushes. 251 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:26.399 It must have been placed there. 252 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:28.639 Yes, it was laid across the bush. 253 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:32.159 Very interesting. In this bag, I have one of. 254 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:35.919 The boots which straker wall, one of Fitzroy's, Simpson's shoes, 255 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:39.559 and the cursed horse shoe of silver blade. Right, dear 256 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.200 respector you surpass yourself. Holmes took the bag, and descending 257 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.120 into the hollow, he made a careful study of the 258 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.000 trampled mud in front of him. 259 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.159 Hello, what's fifth the spent match next to the dike? 260 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.039 Counting how I came to miss it? It was invisible, 261 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.440 buried in the mud. I only find it because I 262 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:02.120 was looking for it. 263 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.559 But you expected to find it. 264 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.480 I thought it not unlikely. You will have searched the 265 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.679 ferns round the rim of the hollow for any more tracks. 266 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.480 Of course, I'm afraid there are none. I've examined the 267 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.240 ground very carefully for a hundred guards in each direction. 268 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.240 Good. Then I will take a little. 269 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.879 Walk over the moors before it grows dark, and I 270 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.000 think I'll put this horseshoe in my pocket just for luck. 271 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.080 I suppose you know your own death at best. I 272 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.200 suppose perhaps you'll come back with the inspector. And there 273 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:33.120 are several matters on which I need your advice, especially 274 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:35.519 as to whether we own to the public to scratch 275 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.039 so the bags from the Wessex Cup certainly not. 276 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.519 Colonel, I should let the name stand. 277 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.039 I am very glad to have your opinions, which will 278 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:50.200 see you later on. When you finished your walk, Boss 279 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:51.600 and the Inspector. 280 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.759 Went back to the villa, our homesy walked soarlier across 281 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:55.200 the moor. 282 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.879 He may leave the question of who killed John Straker 283 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.399 at the moment, and and find ourselves to finding out 284 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:04.919 what had become of the horse. Now, supposing he broke 285 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.600 away during or after the tragedy, where could he have 286 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.559 got to? Almost anywhere on dart Or. I should imagine 287 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:16.000 jour knows horses a be gurious animal. If left to himself, 288 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.759 his instincts would have been able to return to King's 289 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:20.799 Thailand or go all over to Caperton yonder. 290 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:24.000 Why should he run wilder on the moor. He's not 291 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:25.000 at King's Thailand. 292 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:32.159 He must be over there at Campleton. Come along, We're 293 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:35.360 not far to go. And as we approached the gates 294 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.320 of Capleton we met a groom coming. 295 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.960 Out of them. We don't want the lawyers round here. 296 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.120 I only wanted to ask you a question. 297 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.440 Would I be too early to see your master, mister 298 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.679 Silas Brown? If I were recall here at five o'clock 299 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:50.600 tomorrow morning. 300 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.480 Why bless you? If anyone's about, it'll be him. 301 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.240 He's always the first churring this this? 302 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.600 Are you there? What would you want here? Ten minutes? 303 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.639 Talk with you, my good sir, I've no time to 304 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.000 talk to everything about. If we don't want stranger there 305 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:08.600 be off you. I find a doggerty. Here's one word 306 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.960 in your ear, my friend, in your own interest. 307 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:18.200 It's a lie, an infernal life. 308 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.919 Very good? Shall we argue about it here in public? 309 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:22.639 Or talk it over in your parlor? 310 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.759 Or do I go to the. 311 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.399 Police just twenty minutes before he returned? It should be 312 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.759 done to just if you wish it. There must be 313 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.399 no mistake. Oh no, they should be then a mistake 314 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:40.080 it should be there. Should I change it first or not? No? No, don't. 315 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:44.080 I'll write to you about that. No tricks now, now 316 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.120 you can trust me? You can trust me? Yes, I 317 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:48.879 think I can. 318 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:49.440 Well. 319 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:51.480 You shall hear from me tomorrow. Good day, do you? 320 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:52.600 Good day? Sir? 321 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.279 You see what's a more perfect compound of the bully colored. 322 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.519 And sneak than Master Silace, but I've seldom met with 323 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.279 he has the horse tim Or. He tried to bluster 324 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:03.279 it out, but. 325 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.240 I told him so exactly what his actions had been. 326 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:06.319 That means that he's convinced. 327 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:11.400 I was actually watching him first a stain force wandering 328 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.000 on and went out to it when he's very nice 329 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.000 little day because I sat. 330 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.400 It returned to the Pilmcule, which he had to do. 331 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.200 But then he realized that if the horse would only 332 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.960 be hidden, and after the Wessex Cup, his own horse 333 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:25.480 desbro and allmust certainly wind. 334 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.119 So he changed his mind and turned. 335 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.960 Back halfway brought Silver Blaze down to his own stable. 336 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.640 But I thought his tables as being covered a sore 337 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.079 or old horse. Faker like him has many a dodge 338 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.680 and around tew afraid to leave the horse in his power. 339 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.680 Now he seed every interest in injuring it. 340 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:44.319 My dear fellow, he guarded like the apple of his eye. 341 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.079 He knows that his only hope of mercy is to 342 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.519 produce it safely at the race tack for the Wessex Cup. 343 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.480 I made that persic appear to him. But I have 344 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.400 a little trick to play on ternel Ross who may 345 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.559 have noticed that his manner to me was just trustle caroleer. 346 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.920 So neither of us, please, for the present, will say 347 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.680 anything to him about the horse or a certain amuntitude wishes. 348 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.039 However, and of course this is all quite a minor 349 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.680 matter compared with the question of who killed John Staker, 350 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.200 and you will devote yourself to that in the meantime. 351 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.720 On the contrary, we'll both go back to London by 352 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:22.640 the night chair. I was thunder struck by my friend's word. 353 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.319 It'd only been a few hours in Devanter, but he 354 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.079 should give up an investigation which had begne so brilliant 355 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.279 it was quite incomprehensible to me. Not one word more 356 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:36.599 could I draw from him until we were back of 357 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.880 the plainer's house, where the Colonel and the insector were 358 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.880 waiting for us. My friend and I returned to town 359 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.759 by the midnight express. We've had a charming little breath 360 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.519 of your darts were air, so you were despaired of 361 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.519 arresting the Drosport take us. 362 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.559 There are certainly great difficulties in the way. 363 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.680 I have every help, however, that your horse would be 364 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.839 as the race back next Tuesday, and I beg that 365 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.119 you have your jockey in readiness. Oh now I take 366 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:03.559 this photograph of John Straker with me back to town. 367 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:09.240 The wed inspector, I'm rather disappointed in our London consultants, 368 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:11.200 and I don't need to put any star with the way. 369 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.119 He came released your head an assurance that Joe horse 370 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:15.200 will run next week. 371 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:16.880 Years I had his assurance, I. 372 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:18.720 Should prefer to have my horse. 373 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.839 We went outside, Goodbye. 374 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.319 Goodbye, colonel. I hope to see you with the Wessex 375 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:32.599 Cup and Silver Blaze. Four days later, Holmes and I 376 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.039 thought silver Blaze win the Westx Cup by a good 377 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.720 six lengths, but was not a silver Blaze that even 378 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:43.559 its owner could recognize, with no taste to be seen 379 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.640 as a famous white splash on its hoddead or of 380 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.960 the muffled off folly. The silver Blade that won the Wessex. 381 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:54.400 Cup was a powerful day. It was only in the 382 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:56.359 way and soda after the race. 383 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.680 But the plans began to explain to a colonel it 384 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.279 is completely bewildered. He order to wash his space in 385 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.960 his leg in silitab wine and he would find that 386 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.240 he's just the same old silver Blazer. 387 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.640 Ever, you should take my breath away as I find 388 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:14.000 him in the. 389 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:16.119 Hands of a taker, and took the liberty of running 390 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:18.000 him just as he was sent over. 391 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.799 My DearS, Are you done, wonders? 392 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:22.599 I owe you a thousand of policies. You've done here 393 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.839 very great service by recovering my horse. You would be 394 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:27.160 here a greater skill if you. 395 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.519 Could lay your hands on the murderer, John Staker. I've 396 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.960 done so, you done so, have got him. But the 397 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:35.799 way here he's in a hard company at because of 398 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:36.160 the moment. 399 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.599 That is either a very bad joke, mister Holmes, or 400 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:44.960 is it really insult I'm not the Duke. The real 401 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.839