Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watton, how about the redheaded lee?
Speaker 2: Well, the adventure again.
Speaker 3: One day during the autumn of the year eighteen ninety.
Speaker 4: I believe it was.
Speaker 3: It was just after my marriage, and I haven't seen
Speaker 3: much of Charlock Holmes lately. Anyway, I burst in upon
Speaker 3: my old friend to find him deep in conversation with
Speaker 3: a stout, florid faced gentleman with the.
Speaker 4: Fiercest red hair.
Speaker 2: It has ever been my privilege to observe.
Speaker 3: I was a butt withdrawal when Holmes pulled me abruptly
Speaker 3: into the room.
Speaker 2: Close the door behind me.
Speaker 4: Come in, my dear Watson, Come in. You couldn't possibly
Speaker 4: have come at a better time.
Speaker 2: But Holmes, I was afraid you might be busy.
Speaker 4: So I am, my dear fellow. Alarm me. Mister Wilson.
Speaker 4: This is my friend and colleague, doctor Watts.
Speaker 2: How you do so?
Speaker 4: And how do you do? Sit down? Watson? Sit down.
Speaker 4: I know that you share my love of the bazaar,
Speaker 4: although you've never agreed that for the strangest effects and
Speaker 4: most extraordinary combinations, we must go to life itself. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, mister Japis Wilson here has just started a
Speaker 4: narrative which promises to be one of the most singular,
Speaker 4: which I've listened for some time. And now, my dar
Speaker 4: mister Wilson, perhaps you would have the great kindness to
Speaker 4: recommence your story.
Speaker 5: Certainly, mister Olmes, as soon as I can find that
Speaker 5: newspaper clipping where did I put it? And a swan
Speaker 5: that was here in the westcoat.
Speaker 4: Pocket and Watson. While we're waiting for mister Wilson to
Speaker 4: find his missing newspaper advertisement, I suppose you will tell
Speaker 4: me what you deduced from his apparero Athough here?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I would say that he was middle aged.
Speaker 3: You don't mind my saying, so, will call Colnor Wilson
Speaker 3: and and he has red hair?
Speaker 4: Obvious? Watson too obvious. I'll come to your assistance.
Speaker 2: Colonel.
Speaker 4: He has at some time done manual labor. He's a freemason,
Speaker 4: has been in China, and has done a considerable amount
Speaker 4: of writing lately. Mister Holmes, you fair give me the creeps.
Speaker 5: Are you one of these mind readers?
Speaker 4: No? Indeed, no, in the name of good fortune, did
Speaker 4: you know all this about me?
Speaker 5: About the manual labor? For example, it's just true as gospel.
Speaker 5: A beginner, the ship's carpenter.
Speaker 4: Your hands my dear sir, your right hand is quite
Speaker 4: a size larger than your left. The muscles are more developed.
Speaker 4: As for the freemasonry, you use an arc and compass
Speaker 4: breastpin rather against the strict rules of your order. See that,
Speaker 4: but the writing? How about that? What else can be
Speaker 4: indicated by that right cuff so very shiny, and the
Speaker 4: left sleeve with a smooth patch near the elbow where
Speaker 4: you rest it on the desk. Well about China. The
Speaker 4: fish that you have to plud immediately above your right
Speaker 4: wrist could only have been done in China. That trick
Speaker 4: of staining the fish's scales of delicate pink is quite
Speaker 4: peculiar to China. And when, in addition I see a
Speaker 4: Chinese coin hanging from your watch chain, the matter becomes
Speaker 4: even more somp a line.
Speaker 5: Never at first I thought you'd done something clever, But
Speaker 5: now I see it was nothing doing.
Speaker 4: After all, I begin to think, Watson, that I make
Speaker 4: a mistake in explaining omni Ignote and pro Magnifico. You
Speaker 4: know Ye're just low thinking, Yes, I'm afraid what reputation
Speaker 4: I may have will suffer shipwreck if I'm so candid.
Speaker 4: Have you found the advertisement? Mister Wilson.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I got it. Now it's in the watch pocket.
Speaker 5: This is what beginning, all, shir just read it for yourself.
Speaker 4: I want them. I suppose you will do that for us. Third,
Speaker 4: as first, make a note of the paper and the date.
Speaker 3: It's the Morning Chronicle of July the twenty seventh, eighteen ninety,
Speaker 3: just two months ago.
Speaker 4: Very well, proceed with the advertisement.
Speaker 2: It begins to the Red Headed League. Owing to the.
Speaker 3: Bequest of the late Ezekah Hopkins, there's now another vacancy open,
Speaker 3: which entitles a member of the League to a salary
Speaker 3: of four pounds a week for purely nominal services.
Speaker 2: All Red Headed men above the age of twenty.
Speaker 3: One are eligible. As we all sign person on Monday
Speaker 3: at eleven o'clock to Duncan Ross at the Officers of
Speaker 3: the League, seven Pope Court, Fleet Street Homes. What on
Speaker 3: earth does all means?
Speaker 4: I think I promised you that this case was bizarre. Now,
Speaker 4: mister Wilson, if you will continue with.
Speaker 5: Your story, well it's just about his eyes turning, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: I have a small pond broker shop in Coburg Square.
Speaker 5: Great year's business has been bad. I used to be
Speaker 5: able to keep two assistants, but now only have one.
Speaker 5: And I'd have a job to pay him, except he's
Speaker 5: willing to come for half wages, choose to learn the business.
Speaker 4: Obliging you. What's his name, Vincent Spaulding.
Speaker 5: And I couldn't want a smarter assistant, mister Olmes. I
Speaker 5: know it could easily earn twice what I'm able to
Speaker 5: give him.
Speaker 4: What did I say?
Speaker 5: He satisfied whom I had to be putting ideas into
Speaker 5: his head?
Speaker 4: Hmm, your assistance seems to be as remarkable as your advertisement.
Speaker 5: Well he has only one fought, mister Olmes. Photography photographer, Yes,
Speaker 5: snapping away with his camera and then diving down into
Speaker 5: the cellar like a rabbit into its old to develop
Speaker 5: his pictures.
Speaker 4: An amateur photographer. Huh is uh still what you want?
Speaker 5: Spoke Oh, yes, sir, and in observing young fellow wise
Speaker 5: he was the one who has brought this adverdishment to
Speaker 5: my notice. It was just this day, eight weeks when
Speaker 5: he wrapped on the office door with this very paper
Speaker 5: in his hand. Come in, come in, Oh, mister Wilson,
Speaker 5: says you ancient much the matter, But.
Speaker 4: I wish to heaven mister Wilson that I was a
Speaker 4: red headed man. Why well, why look here's her. What
Speaker 4: it says in this paper there's another vacancy in the
Speaker 4: League of the red headed Man. It's worth a pretty
Speaker 4: penny to him that gets it.
Speaker 5: A red headed league. Never heard of it.
Speaker 4: Never heard of the League of the red headed Man. Now, oh,
Speaker 4: mister Wilson, and you eligible for one of the vacancies.
Speaker 4: Uh what there were? Oh, in nearly a couple of
Speaker 4: hundred a year, But slight and it needn't interfere much
Speaker 4: with one's regular occupation. Hmm, couple of hundred pounds a year.
Speaker 4: Let me see that, baby, young man. Yes, here you are, sir.
Speaker 4: As far as I can make out, the legal started
Speaker 4: by a million air named Azakah Hopkins, a red headed
Speaker 4: man himself. He left his fortune in hands of trustees
Speaker 4: with instructions to provide easy berths to men who had
Speaker 4: red hair. From what I hear, the work isn't difficult.
Speaker 5: Oh, there must be missions of red heated men.
Speaker 4: Oh not as many as you might think, sir. You
Speaker 4: see it's confined to londoners. Oh, and then again, it's
Speaker 4: no use if your hair is light red or dark
Speaker 4: red or anything but real blazing fire red. They've got
Speaker 4: to pick the riddest hair.
Speaker 5: They confine where it is a ready head of hair,
Speaker 5: and mine in the Lincoln Bridge of London, i'd allow
Speaker 5: to see it.
Speaker 4: Well, I have seen a fuel that I considered a
Speaker 4: non change.
Speaker 5: But where's Matt, What are you going to do? I
Speaker 5: am going around to apply for that vacancy. It's rain
Speaker 5: and gold. No one can say that Jabers Wilson is
Speaker 5: the man to go out with a sill.
Speaker 4: And did you get the job, mister Wilson? I did that,
Speaker 4: mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: There wasn't the head of air could touch mine for redness.
Speaker 4: We do say so myself.
Speaker 5: And there were thousands competing.
Speaker 4: And what was the work?
Speaker 5: Purely nominal lock, the paper said, And it paid four
Speaker 5: pounds a week regular as our clock. All I had
Speaker 5: to do was sit at a desk in an officer
Speaker 5: at that addressed there from ten to two and copy
Speaker 5: out bits from the encyclopedia.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, educational as well as remunerative. And how long of
Speaker 4: this work continued? About eight weeks.
Speaker 5: I was pretty well through the a's abbot's archery architecture,
Speaker 5: and then suddenly it.
Speaker 4: Come to an end.
Speaker 5: I went to my work ten o'clock, if usual, The
Speaker 5: door was shut and locked, and the card.
Speaker 2: Was nailed to the door.
Speaker 4: What did it say?
Speaker 5: Red Headed League dissolved doctor by nine eighteen nineteen, I say, homes,
Speaker 5: that's to day, tis this very mornin' it was, sir well,
Speaker 5: I lost no time trying to find the man that
Speaker 5: I admit. Four pounds a.
Speaker 4: Week is four pounds. You say, you try to find
Speaker 4: the man that wanted the office?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I'm quite an ouse agent.
Speaker 4: And he gave me the man's name and said he'd.
Speaker 6: Moved to a new address.
Speaker 5: You went there, of course, yes, sir well, when I
Speaker 5: got that a dress, it was a manufactury of out
Speaker 5: to fish your knee cat. No one had everded the
Speaker 5: Red Headed.
Speaker 4: League, So then you came straight to me, he is, sir,
Speaker 4: I thought it best to lose no time. Quite right
Speaker 4: by the bye, mister Wilson. For this assistant of yours,
Speaker 4: mister Vincent's Paulding. How long had he been with you
Speaker 4: when he caught your attention to the Red Headed League?
Speaker 4: About a month? How did he.
Speaker 5: Come in answer to an advertisement?
Speaker 4: Or was he the only applicant?
Speaker 5: No, sir, I had a dozen.
Speaker 4: Why did you pick him?
Speaker 5: Because he was handy and would come cheap but half wages.
Speaker 4: In fact, m what is he like?
Speaker 5: Small stout, built, very quick in his ways, no hair
Speaker 5: on his flash, though he's not short of thirty, and
Speaker 5: he had a white splash of escid on his forehead.
Speaker 4: I thought as much. Have you ever noticed that his
Speaker 4: ears appearced for earrings?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, he says, a gypsy did it for him when
Speaker 5: he was a lad.
Speaker 4: Watson. What day of the week is it?
Speaker 2: Certainty?
Speaker 4: Of course Saturday, dear me, so it is. Well, mister Wilson,
Speaker 4: I think I may promise you some startling developments by tonight.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, Watson, I suggested we'd drop a round
Speaker 4: sometime this afternoon to view the attractions of Saxe Coburg
Speaker 4: Square and mister Wilson's exemporary assistant, in particular, a certain MANU.
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll be expecting it.
Speaker 5: Good bye, gentlemen.
Speaker 4: And now Watson, if you will hand me my violin.
Speaker 4: I have some thinking to do, don't.
Speaker 2: You, I think without there, well, well, here we are homes.
Speaker 3: This seems to be a sex covered squirrel.
Speaker 4: Mm taby genteel little backwater over place, and this only
Speaker 4: fences up in the shop, the four story building with
Speaker 4: the three gilt balls over the door. Yes, the square
Speaker 4: itself seems fairly uninteresting.
Speaker 2: Huh, very depressing.
Speaker 4: Let's see what streets backs onto it on the side.
Speaker 4: Come on, Watson, Well, I can't see what difference the
Speaker 4: next street can make your art problem.
Speaker 2: If it is a problem. The whole thing sounds more
Speaker 2: like a practical joke to me.
Speaker 4: A practical joke which cost its perpetrate at four pounds
Speaker 4: a week. Nonsense, Watson. No man's sense of humor resides
Speaker 4: in his pocket book.
Speaker 2: Well, this teach seems to have more life.
Speaker 4: It's one of the chief arteries leading to the north
Speaker 4: and west. I perceive what is the order of the
Speaker 4: houses here?
Speaker 2: Order?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a hobby of mine to have an exact
Speaker 4: knowledge of London. First we have Mortimers than the Tobacconists,
Speaker 4: the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the city
Speaker 4: in suburban bench, the vegetarian restaurant, and McFarland's carriage building yard. Yes, now,
Speaker 4: now we can go back to the shop of our friends.
Speaker 4: Mister Wilson, what the time.
Speaker 2: Don't walk so fast.
Speaker 3: When I find out all I want to hear, Holmes,
Speaker 3: you behave as if you were taking a memory court.
Speaker 2: Why did you want to know all.
Speaker 3: The shops on that street?
Speaker 2: Just a waste of time.
Speaker 4: Nothing that exercises the brain is a waste of time,
Speaker 4: My dear Watson. The trouble with most of us is
Speaker 4: that our brains have become flappy from blank of proper
Speaker 4: use rubbish.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are back again.
Speaker 4: Quite Why, having on the pap of your stick.
Speaker 3: H you want to enter the shop?
Speaker 2: Why not knock on the door?
Speaker 4: Quite, sir Watson. I am afraid my etiquette is a
Speaker 4: bit faulty lately, So just to please you, wise will
Speaker 4: knock on the door.
Speaker 2: Someone's cunning. I can see him through the glass.
Speaker 4: Looks like our bright little assistant. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Won't
Speaker 4: you step in and thank you? No, I only wish
Speaker 4: to ask you how to get from here to the
Speaker 4: strand third right, fourth left? Smart fellow there, eh, Watson, I.
Speaker 2: See no signs of a colossal intelligence.
Speaker 4: Nevertheless, he is, in my judgment, the false smartest mine
Speaker 4: in London, And for daring, I'm not sure that he's
Speaker 4: not the third.
Speaker 2: I see nothing so startling about him.
Speaker 4: The knees of his trousers. Watson, didn't you.
Speaker 3: Notice knees of his trousers were about him?
Speaker 4: Most enlightening, my dear Watson, most enlightening.
Speaker 2: Oh this is so much balderdash. I've heard just about
Speaker 2: the love of it. I'm going to get myself some
Speaker 2: tea in a muffin.
Speaker 3: There's an advertising little Baker's shop across the road.
Speaker 4: The very good Watson. Suppose you meet back here at
Speaker 4: ten tonight shop? Mind you and kindly put your honor
Speaker 4: revolve in your pocket. What this business is serious? More
Speaker 4: serious even than I expected.
Speaker 1: Just a moment, we'll rejoin Sherlock Holmes as he endeavors
Speaker 1: to solve the strange case of the red headed League.
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Speaker 4: And if your hair is so dry that it breaks
Speaker 4: off and.
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Speaker 1: So men, take better care of the hair you've got.
Speaker 4: Buy a bottle of.
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Speaker 1: your barbershop.
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Speaker 1: Kremmel Hair Tonic. Now, doctor Watson, you are going to
Speaker 1: meet Sherlock Holmes that night in Saxe Coburg's yer.
Speaker 2: Sista Belle.
Speaker 3: A rendezvous took place right on the dot. I remember
Speaker 3: the arrow striking, I say, Holmes at ten o'clock. Now,
Speaker 3: how long do we have to stand here in this
Speaker 3: compound when I'm self to the skin.
Speaker 4: Until the other member of our party's ends up? Onsoon ah,
Speaker 4: here comes a cab. I think you'll be ending whoa, Yes,
Speaker 4: good evening, mister Merry at home home.
Speaker 2: Yes, I stay home.
Speaker 6: Why if you want to wrap me out on a
Speaker 6: night like this Saturday night too? I shall miss my
Speaker 6: rubber of whist. It's the first Saturday night for seven
Speaker 6: and twenty years that I got at my whist.
Speaker 4: And my deare Merriweather. I think you'll find that tonight
Speaker 4: you're playing for higher stakes than even you are accustomed to,
Speaker 4: and I can promise the play will be more exciting.
Speaker 4: Oh indeed, by the way, this is my friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: How do you do? How to do?
Speaker 4: But come? We must hurry this way, gentlemen, where.
Speaker 3: We goin Wilson shots here on the square and stop burbling.
Speaker 4: Long follow me and don't waste time.
Speaker 6: Your message to be homed. You said something about John
Speaker 6: Clay the murderers He smashed.
Speaker 2: And thought John Clay.
Speaker 4: Who's he, My dear Watson, John Clay is one of
Speaker 4: our most colorful and dangerous criminals. A young man, but
Speaker 4: that they bit of his profession. I'd rather have the
Speaker 4: bracest on him than on any criminal in London.
Speaker 6: I've heard that his grandfather was a royal duke, and
Speaker 6: he himself is me to eat in the Knox.
Speaker 4: He'll crack a cribin's conflent one week and be raising
Speaker 4: money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.
Speaker 6: We've been after him for years homes and havn't set
Speaker 6: eyes on him yet.
Speaker 4: Well, I first I may have the pleasure of introducing
Speaker 4: you tonight. Here we are down this narrow passage way.
Speaker 4: You'd better let me go first.
Speaker 2: I don't love the look of all this.
Speaker 3: This passage goes on the ground. Give him with a creeps.
Speaker 2: Run into zombing the wall.
Speaker 4: I fancy aftercot has worn you. There's a turn here to.
Speaker 2: The right to as I found that out.
Speaker 4: Thanks very much. Ah, here's the door just a moment
Speaker 4: till I like my dark lantern there now, mister meadow Webburn,
Speaker 4: if you will unlock the door for us.
Speaker 6: In just a moment, that I hid my key here.
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 4: Better. Let me go Presser because too late. Ah, yes,
Speaker 4: the coast seems clear enough. Come along, both of you, will, Homes,
Speaker 4: I said, I don't like the look of this place.
Speaker 3: Your lantam throws such weird shadows.
Speaker 6: Smells like a vault.
Speaker 4: It is a vault, my dear Watson, the basement of
Speaker 4: the City and Suburban Bank, to be exact of which
Speaker 4: our friend mister Meadoweather here is managing director.
Speaker 2: Are all those wooden crates doing here?
Speaker 4: They explained why the most daring criminal in London is
Speaker 4: taking such an interest in this particular place.
Speaker 6: Yes, doctor Watson, these crates contain our French gold.
Speaker 2: French gold.
Speaker 6: Quite now, you see, we had occasion some months ago
Speaker 6: to borrow thirty thousand napoleons from France through France good
Speaker 6: gracious un most of which has never been unpacked, rather
Speaker 6: an inducement.
Speaker 4: For any thief through very Homes.
Speaker 6: I think you are rather unduly excited. The building is
Speaker 6: guarded by ten burly watchmen.
Speaker 4: Yes, I daresay I'm not particularly vulnerable from above, not.
Speaker 6: From below, Homes, nothing but solid earth below these flagstones this.
Speaker 4: To this, don't do that? Do you want to ruin
Speaker 4: all our cands.
Speaker 6: But look here, I say it did sound hollow, you know,
Speaker 6: so loud?
Speaker 4: Please now, then, I think we'd better take up our positions. You, Merryweather,
Speaker 4: behind those large boxes in the corner. Watson and I
Speaker 4: will hide behind this crate. I hope you appreciate the honor,
Speaker 4: my dear fellow. This crate contains no less than two
Speaker 4: thousand napoleons, neatly packed in tinfoil. To heavens, ready, we
Speaker 4: must put the screen over my dark lantern and sit
Speaker 4: here in the dark.
Speaker 6: Certainly, oh dear, and I'd brought along the packs of cards.
Speaker 6: I thought we might have time for a three hundred.
Speaker 4: Rubber Not to night, mister Merrower her. We are dealing
Speaker 4: with a dangerous man, and unless we can take him
Speaker 4: at a disadvantage, he may do his considerable harm. One
Speaker 4: thing more, when I flashed my light, closing swiftly, and
Speaker 4: if he reaches for a weapon, shoot and shoot to kill,
Speaker 4: cheer me.
Speaker 6: I I wish I'd stayed at home.
Speaker 4: Quite I'm going to.
Speaker 7: Cover the light, Ah, I say, wolves, are you still there?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm here. I'm beginning to.
Speaker 6: Imagine all sorts of horrors sitting here in the.
Speaker 4: Dark like this really merryweather home? Do you hear that? Look? Look, look,
Speaker 4: look there in the middle of the floor a slit
Speaker 4: of light. Somebody's raising one of the stone slabs. Look,
Speaker 4: look there's a hand. Catch his hands. Make a bus
Speaker 4: right out. It wasn't put out? You good?
Speaker 2: And I take your hands off.
Speaker 4: No you don't.
Speaker 3: Oh, roll down home, roll down you knocked him.
Speaker 4: Out foot drag him up here, Rush up there now,
Speaker 4: miss the merryweather, if you will give us some lights,
Speaker 4: that's better. When I say home, it's Vincent spawling Wilson's
Speaker 4: assistant spawling rubbish. This is John Clay, one of the
Speaker 4: most dangerous criminals in London. I've been after him for years,
Speaker 4: help mis such.
Speaker 3: Homes, and God, he's coming to take your help. The
Speaker 3: hands off me with scarecrown and none of that now,
Speaker 3: who may not.
Speaker 4: Be aware that I have royal blood in my veins?
Speaker 2: Lunatic?
Speaker 4: And when you address me, have the business to say, sir,
Speaker 4: and please, oh very well, would you please, sir, match
Speaker 4: yourself upstairs where we can hand you over to the
Speaker 4: policemen who are anxiously awaiting your faintness's arrival. And be
Speaker 4: quick about it. Better have another spot of whiskey.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Joey.
Speaker 3: Feels good to get to dry cos again after spending
Speaker 3: hours in.
Speaker 6: That cold feller, They said, not so much soler homes.
Speaker 3: Do you want to drown it?
Speaker 4: God bless him, My dear sir.
Speaker 3: I said, Holmes, when did you first begin to suspect
Speaker 3: that fellows, I mean.
Speaker 4: Clay when mister Wilson told me he was anxious to
Speaker 4: work for half price? Always suspect anyone or anything that
Speaker 4: comes too cheap. There's sure to be a motive.
Speaker 2: Be How did you guess what the motive was in
Speaker 2: this case?
Speaker 4: I is I suspected his fondness for photography and his
Speaker 4: trick is vanishing into the cellar the cellar. There was
Speaker 4: the end of this tangled clue. And why was someone
Speaker 4: so anxious to have our friend mister Wilson kept out
Speaker 4: of the shop for several hours every day activities in
Speaker 4: the cellar? Again, By the way, that red Headed League
Speaker 4: hoax is one of the cleverest dodges I have come
Speaker 4: across for some time. Too clever, in fact, when I
Speaker 4: heard of it, I knew there was only one man
Speaker 4: who could have originated it, John Clay. We've had our skirmishes,
Speaker 4: but this is the first time we've come face to face.
Speaker 4: So he went round to have a looked at the shop.
Speaker 4: At his trousers, Watson, at the knees of his trousers,
Speaker 4: to be exact, You saw how worn and wrinkled they were.
Speaker 4: They spoke of hours of burrowing, burrowing in the cellar.
Speaker 4: But what for? By tapping on the pavement, I found
Speaker 4: that the tunnel did not stretch out to the front.
Speaker 4: Where then we strolled round the corner, you remember, and
Speaker 4: there stood the city and suburban bank abutting on our
Speaker 4: friend's pawn shop.
Speaker 2: Curse.
Speaker 4: The inference was pure here, yes, I.
Speaker 3: See that, But how did you guess that he'd make
Speaker 3: his attempt to night?
Speaker 4: Perfectly simple? Watson, perfectly simple. The offices of the Red
Speaker 4: Headed League closed this morning. Mister Wilson's absence was no
Speaker 4: longer necessary. The tunnel was completed, but it was essential
Speaker 4: that mister Clay should use it soon it might be discovered.
Speaker 4: The night being Saturday, would be ideal, as it would
Speaker 4: give him two days for escape. Q. E. D.
Speaker 2: Holmes.
Speaker 3: Your reasoning is perfect a long chain, and yet every
Speaker 3: link rings true.
Speaker 4: Well, it saves me from anui. These little problems help
Speaker 4: me to escape the common places of existence, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: After all the long siuren leuve sayt tool, as Flaubert
Speaker 4: once wrote to George sa