Speaker 1: And now it's time to keep the weekly appointment with
Speaker 1: our good friend doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: How I hear the sating doctor.
Speaker 3: I never felt better. Thank you, mister Bartell. Draw up
Speaker 3: your usual churn, make yourself comfortable. Thanks.
Speaker 1: I see you've had the old ten dispatch box out again.
Speaker 1: I suppose you've been going through your notes on tonight's
Speaker 1: new share like ons advantage.
Speaker 4: Yes, mister Boutell, I think you'll find it as pretty
Speaker 4: a little problem.
Speaker 3: As we ever encountered.
Speaker 4: Story began in eighteen hundred and eighty seven, a very
Speaker 4: busy year for us, My boy. It was the same
Speaker 4: year that Herms solved the case of the Amateur Medican Society,
Speaker 4: who held their meetings in a luxuriously furnished vault.
Speaker 3: Below a furniture warehouse.
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember that story, doctor, And wasn't eighty seven
Speaker 1: the year you both escaped from death in the Paradol chamber.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: Indeed, you've got a very good memory, mister Bartell. The
Speaker 4: story I'm going to tell you tonight topped off this
Speaker 4: unusually exciting year. It was late in October and the
Speaker 4: equinoxial gales that set in with exceptional violence all day.
Speaker 3: The wind that howled.
Speaker 4: The rain had beaten against the windows of our Baker
Speaker 4: Street lodgings.
Speaker 3: Finally, it was midnight, as far as I remember.
Speaker 4: The storm grew higher and louder, and the wind in
Speaker 4: the chimney sobbed like a child. Suddenly, much to our surprise,
Speaker 4: the doorbell jangled, and a few moments later our midnight
Speaker 4: visitor stood before us. He was a man of about
Speaker 4: forty five, and as he looked about him anxiously on
Speaker 4: the glare of the lamp, I could see that his
Speaker 4: face was pale, and that his eyes heavy, like those
Speaker 4: of a man who's weighed down with some great anxiety.
Speaker 4: And yet when he spoke, his tone was businesslike and
Speaker 4: almost aggressive.
Speaker 6: I've come to you for advice, mister Holmes, that's easily obtained,
Speaker 6: and help that is not always so easy.
Speaker 2: He helped the gentleman off his coat, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3: He was let me hang it up, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6: I heard of you, mister Holmes, from Major Prendergast Toylet.
Speaker 6: He said that you could solve anything. Aunt Freddy said
Speaker 6: too much, that you've never been beaten. I've been beaten
Speaker 6: four times, sir, three times by men and once by
Speaker 6: a woman that the person you sit down and introduced
Speaker 6: yourself my friend.
Speaker 2: His name is Watson, Dr Watson.
Speaker 6: How do you do ter? My name is Lovelace, Edmund Lovelace.
Speaker 2: And what brings you to me at this hour of
Speaker 2: the night? Mister Lovelace.
Speaker 6: I'm in terrible trouble. Mister Holmes, you don't know anything
Speaker 6: about me, but if you'll accept my case, you can
Speaker 6: say four lives.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that I know nothing about you, sir.
Speaker 6: No, it's true that I know little beyond the somewhat
Speaker 6: obvious fact that well you're single, that you keep.
Speaker 2: A dog but not a man servant, and that you are.
Speaker 6: Much preoccupied with your business, which I take to be
Speaker 6: some form of insurance.
Speaker 3: Oh, come, come, come now, what is this? Well? I
Speaker 3: imagine I'll wait to let my friends write, though, isn't
Speaker 3: he mister Lovelace?
Speaker 2: Perfectly?
Speaker 6: But I'll be hanged if I can see how I know.
Speaker 6: It's a practical application of logic, sir. The briefcase that
Speaker 6: you carry it might at first indicate.
Speaker 2: A barrister or some other professional man, but.
Speaker 6: Your brusque, business like manner contacts that suggestion.
Speaker 2: An insurance broke up, who must.
Speaker 6: Visit clients at odd hours is the likeliest man to
Speaker 6: combine that manner with a briefcase of midnight that the
Speaker 6: white from the man servant, and the fact that I'm
Speaker 6: preoccupied with my business. Your couplings don't match her, each
Speaker 6: is from a different pair. That would suggest preoccupation. And
Speaker 6: it's a mistake that neither a wife nor a man
Speaker 6: servant would have allowed to pass.
Speaker 2: How about the dog that's obvious? Watch I shall let you.
Speaker 6: Ponder on that matter while mister Lovelace tells us his problem.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, are you as interested in preventing a murder
Speaker 6: as in solving one?
Speaker 2: Naturally? I am mister Lovelace's even more so. But please
Speaker 2: tell me your story.
Speaker 6: I live with four cousins of mine and an old person, Camberwell.
Speaker 6: My grandfather left the house and a sizeable fortune to
Speaker 6: the five of us on condition that we lived together
Speaker 6: and maintained the family unity. It probably won't surprise you
Speaker 6: to know that we've grown to get pretty much on
Speaker 6: each other's nerves.
Speaker 3: What happens if one of you does, mister Lovelace.
Speaker 6: His share is divided among the others. Doctor wonder to
Speaker 6: me is that not that a murder may take place,
Speaker 6: but that it does not happened long ago.
Speaker 2: Who's responsible for the administration of the estate.
Speaker 6: My cousin Gerald. He's much older than the rest of us,
Speaker 6: and he's a thoroughly unpleasant, cantankerous man. He gets an
Speaker 6: extra share in the estate as administrator, and in consequence
Speaker 6: he doesn't work. We feel, of course, that he lives
Speaker 6: off of us, and we're continually quarreling.
Speaker 2: With him about it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a jolly househole.
Speaker 6: Was going to be trouble, mister Holmes, I know it.
Speaker 6: Gerald hates us and he's jealous of our share in
Speaker 6: the estate.
Speaker 2: Who spoke of preventing murder just now?
Speaker 6: Yet I can see that you selected your cousin Gerald
Speaker 6: as the potential murderer.
Speaker 2: Am I right? Yes you are.
Speaker 6: But don't think it's personal prejudice that makes missus pectin.
Speaker 6: I have good reason for doing so.
Speaker 2: Oh what reason?
Speaker 6: This evening, just before dinner, I helped Gerald off with
Speaker 6: his topcoat and went to hang it up for him.
Speaker 6: As I did so, I heard a strange dunny clink
Speaker 6: in one of his pockets. I slipped my hand inside
Speaker 6: it and found a hypodermic syringe and a small pile
Speaker 6: of liquid. I opened the file and smelled it. Gentlemen,
Speaker 6: it reeked of bitter armor.
Speaker 3: Sana, eh, what did you do?
Speaker 6: I thought of destroying it, but I realized that would
Speaker 6: put him on his guard, so I replaced it in
Speaker 6: his pocket. Of course, I warned the others, and we
Speaker 6: decided that i'd come to you, I have to say,
Speaker 6: a most important client tonight, or i'd have been here
Speaker 6: earlier years.
Speaker 4: It seems all that you didn't come directed to mister
Speaker 4: Helms as soon you'd made the discovery mister Lovelace. After all,
Speaker 4: if a potential murderer is walking about with a pocket
Speaker 4: full of slide, I should have thought that itself was
Speaker 4: more important business.
Speaker 6: Well, I yes, I suppose if i'd seem so to you, Doctor,
Speaker 6: that's the most interesting stick you carry, So may I
Speaker 6: examine it?
Speaker 2: Of course? Ye, I thank you.
Speaker 3: Now I see how you deduced that mister Lovelace had
Speaker 3: dog homes. There are the marks of the dog's teeth
Speaker 3: on the streetes.
Speaker 2: My dear Wudson.
Speaker 6: But these marks under scrutiny give us the more specific information.
Speaker 2: He's a large dog.
Speaker 6: You had him for some years, mister Lovelace, and he's
Speaker 6: now old and feeble.
Speaker 2: Well, you're perfectly.
Speaker 6: Right, but I'll be hanged if I can see how
Speaker 6: you can tell that from looking at a walking stick.
Speaker 6: The stick is covered with teeth marks. Therefore it has
Speaker 6: been carried many times by the dog. Now it's the heaviestick,
Speaker 6: so only a large dog could have carried it, And.
Speaker 2: The teeth marks also indicate a large jaw.
Speaker 6: The older marks are deep sunk maquare, the fresh ones
Speaker 6: where the wood is not yet dark, and a shallow Yes,
Speaker 6: it's obvious that the jaws.
Speaker 2: Are losing their string.
Speaker 6: That's very clever of you, mister Holmes. But I don't
Speaker 6: see what it has to do with the case in hand.
Speaker 3: Neither do our homes. I must confers.
Speaker 6: Surely it tells us that your story, mister Lovelace, may
Speaker 6: bear a less terrifying implication than you think. On the
Speaker 6: other hand, it's implication may be even more terrifying.
Speaker 2: It's late at night.
Speaker 6: I feel that any further delay in this matter would
Speaker 6: be extremely dangerous. I suggest that we get a cab
Speaker 6: and come to your house in Camberwell at once. Alice Randolph,
Speaker 6: I'm glad you're still up. I was able to persuade
Speaker 6: mister Sherlock Hoates and doctor Watson to come back with me. Gentlemen,
Speaker 6: this is my cousin, Alice Harley.
Speaker 2: How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 3: Miss har How do you?
Speaker 6: And my cousin Randolph Lovelace? I told him about the
Speaker 6: whole business, Randolph, so we can speak perfectly freely.
Speaker 7: Let's begin by sitting down, shall we. Randolf and I
Speaker 7: had just finished a little cold supper. We've been to
Speaker 7: the theater tonight.
Speaker 6: Well, mister Holmes, I suppose Edmund told you about finding
Speaker 6: the hypodermic strange and the cyanide in Gerald's coat pocket. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 6: may I ask where your cousin, Gerald Lovelace is now.
Speaker 7: We left the house at seven, but I imagine Gerald
Speaker 7: went upstairs at eight as usual, didn't he on the
Speaker 7: stroke of eight?
Speaker 2: Alice?
Speaker 6: He's very fixed in his habits, mister Holmes. He goes
Speaker 6: up to his room every night at eight. There he
Speaker 6: reads or works on his accounts, and eventually goes to
Speaker 6: bed any time between ten and one.
Speaker 2: But he might still be up.
Speaker 6: I should like to speak to him a little later
Speaker 6: in the meanwhile, May I ask you, two young people,
Speaker 6: tell me, quite honestly your feelings about your cousin Gerald,
Speaker 6: and you might as well be frank. I've kept nothing back.
Speaker 7: All right, Randolph and I hate him first of all,
Speaker 7: were sure he's jealous of our shares in the estate.
Speaker 6: And then we Alice and I want to get married.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes and Gerald won't hear of it.
Speaker 3: But you're your cousins, aren't you?
Speaker 7: Only second cousins, Doctor Watson. Gerald is dreadfully convined. He's
Speaker 7: threatensus that if we do get married, he'll go to
Speaker 7: court and try to have our shares in the estate.
Speaker 7: Annull and from.
Speaker 6: The way the will is worded, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 6: he could do it. So you can see why we
Speaker 6: have no great love for him, why we're afraid of him.
Speaker 3: He turns an extremely unfilled person to you.
Speaker 6: You mentioned there were five cousins in the house. Three
Speaker 6: of you are here, mister Gerald's lovelace is upstairs. Who
Speaker 6: and where is the fifth cousin. The fifth cousin is
Speaker 6: my brother Gilly. He's something of the tragedy, I'm afraid
Speaker 6: you see. Gilly is twenty, but he he never developed
Speaker 6: mentally beyond the age of it. He had a bad
Speaker 6: fall in the hunting field when he was a kid.
Speaker 6: He's been like this ever since. I'm sorry to hear that, sir,
Speaker 6: but he's.
Speaker 7: The dearest, most gentle boy you've ever met.
Speaker 6: And incidentally, the one person in this house who doesn't
Speaker 6: hate Gerald.
Speaker 4: Fellow doesn't understand the conditions of the will last Verson, No, but.
Speaker 7: If he did, I don't think it'd make any difference.
Speaker 7: I swear that Gilly loves every living thing, especially Gladstone.
Speaker 7: Gladstone is the name of his dog.
Speaker 2: Yes, the dog may be the key to this whole matter.
Speaker 3: Dog makes you say that home.
Speaker 6: When a man brings a quick and painless poison home
Speaker 6: to a househole containing an old and people dog, it's
Speaker 6: more than possible that he has obtained that poison quite legitimately,
Speaker 6: to give the dog a mercial death, to kill Gladstone.
Speaker 2: Oh no, after all, I was dear. He is old
Speaker 2: and almost blind.
Speaker 6: But mister Holmes, if you think Gerald brought home the
Speaker 6: poison put Gladstone out of the way, and I admit
Speaker 6: it sounds perfectly logical, what made you decide to come
Speaker 6: here tonight? Because I dare not even guess what you
Speaker 6: may have done by including the thought of murder in
Speaker 6: this situation. Where is your brother Gilly in his room
Speaker 6: upstairs asleep? I wonder if we might go up to him.
Speaker 6: I should like to talk to him, if you don't mind.
Speaker 6: And after that I want a few words with your
Speaker 6: cousin Gerald Lovelace. He's asleep, mister Hells, with a dog
Speaker 6: in his arm.
Speaker 2: M I'm afraid you left awaken him, Killy, Killy, that's
Speaker 2: all right, Lester. We're not going to hurt him.
Speaker 6: Gilly.
Speaker 3: Who who is it? Oh?
Speaker 5: Hello, Alice? Who are these men? They've come to take
Speaker 5: Bladston away?
Speaker 6: We haven't, of course, not Killy. We've just come to
Speaker 6: admire him. Your brother has been telling us what a
Speaker 6: fine dog he is. That's different he isn't he beautiful?
Speaker 5: I just had such a wonderful dream about him, such
Speaker 5: a wonderful dream.
Speaker 2: What was it, Gilly?
Speaker 6: Well, he was all young again.
Speaker 3: It's just a puppy.
Speaker 5: He was chasing a rabbit across a cliff top, and
Speaker 5: and I was running with him. Oh, Glaston looked so beautiful,
Speaker 5: didn't you, old boy?
Speaker 2: Of course he did, And and you.
Speaker 5: Know the rabbit went down a hole, and Gladston went
Speaker 5: down after him, and I went down after Gladstone. And
Speaker 5: we've all had tea with the rabbits.
Speaker 3: H so funny.
Speaker 5: You all had little green hats on hats with feathers.
Speaker 5: I wanted Glaston to try one on, but he wouldn't.
Speaker 3: So sleepy.
Speaker 6: Come on, Gladston, let's go back to the tea party.
Speaker 3: OK.
Speaker 2: This world may be a great.
Speaker 6: Deal more pleasant than ours, Watson, that's what I'd like
Speaker 6: to thank, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Now I'd like to have a few words for their
Speaker 2: cousin Gerald. His runs at the end of his corridor.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid Gilly wasn't much help to you, mister Harmon
Speaker 7: on the.
Speaker 6: Country, young lady. He told me exactly what I wanted
Speaker 6: to know.
Speaker 2: Here we are.
Speaker 6: This is Gerald from There's no light under the door.
Speaker 6: He must have gone to sleep, and I'm afraid we
Speaker 6: miss waking him too. Must be a sleeper, but he isn't.
Speaker 6: He's a remarkably like one.
Speaker 2: Come on, lest twin stack a mat. The guests man
Speaker 2: is at the head.
Speaker 6: Of his dead doc to Watson, while he's lying on
Speaker 6: the outside of his bed.
Speaker 2: He must be there's blood on the pillow.
Speaker 3: Great Scott Holmes, the back of his car smashed in.
Speaker 3: He's been murdered.
Speaker 2: Oh no, horrible, yes, Watson. The blows on his head,
Speaker 2: looking on the table by.
Speaker 3: His bed, hypodermic syringe, and a broken file.
Speaker 6: Yes, a broken file, wreaking of bitter almonds.
Speaker 3: Poor devil.
Speaker 6: Well, I won't pretend I like him, but what a
Speaker 6: ghastly way to die. All they that take the sword
Speaker 6: shall perish with the sword, so the scripture say, mister Laplace.
Speaker 6: There is suspicion that the killing has brought murder to pass. Well,
Speaker 6: it's too late to prevent it. Our job now is
Speaker 6: to find the killer and see that he's brought to justice.
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story
Speaker 1: in just a few seconds. Just time enough for me
Speaker 1: to tell you that if there's one wine that's perfect
Speaker 1: for any occasion, it's Petrie California's sherry. With a bottle
Speaker 1: of that rich amber colored Petrie Sherry on hand, you
Speaker 1: can make that time before dinner a main event. And
Speaker 1: Patrick Sherry is the perfect answer to the question of
Speaker 1: what to serve when company comes, Sir Patrick Sherry alone
Speaker 1: and let its full wonderful flavor speak for itself, or
Speaker 1: serve Patri Sherry with thor Dev's or party sandwiches. And
Speaker 1: remember you can serve Patrie Sherry proudly because Patrie is
Speaker 1: the proudest name in the history of American wine. Well,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, so you found Gerald Lovelace dead in one
Speaker 1: of the bedrooms of the house in Camberwell, what did
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 6: Send for the police?
Speaker 4: Not at once, just about sherlock home the remainder of
Speaker 4: the household, to give him the opportunity of examining the
Speaker 4: scene of the crime carefully before the police was sent for.
Speaker 4: And so a few minutes before one o'clock that October night,
Speaker 4: Holmes and I stood alone.
Speaker 3: In the room of death, Old Chap.
Speaker 4: You know, Holmes, I think you should have sent the
Speaker 4: police right away in a case like this.
Speaker 6: Wats and I prefer to be my own police, and
Speaker 6: I have spun the web. They may take the flies,
Speaker 6: but not before what are the results of our medical examination,
Speaker 6: Old Chap.
Speaker 3: It's exactly as you reconstructed it, Homes.
Speaker 4: He was first beaten on the head with that poker
Speaker 4: lying on the floor. Then he had the full file
Speaker 4: of cyanide injected into.
Speaker 6: His left wrist, and you estimate the time of death
Speaker 6: toll accurately.
Speaker 3: No, his rooms confinedly hot.
Speaker 4: He might have died any time from one to five
Speaker 4: hours ago.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's now one o'clock, and we know that he
Speaker 6: was alive at eight. Statemund Lovelace saw him leave for
Speaker 6: his room at that hour, if he was telling the truth.
Speaker 6: One thing we do know for a fact is that
Speaker 6: this man was murdered at the exact moment he was
Speaker 6: going to bed.
Speaker 2: He's wearing his nightgown and nightcap, but his bed has
Speaker 2: not been slept in.
Speaker 3: Impossible.
Speaker 4: The murder might have killed him shortly after eight and
Speaker 4: then dressed him in his nightclothes to confuse us.
Speaker 2: No chap.
Speaker 6: He will notice that the hypodermic neil trusts on the
Speaker 6: sleeve of his night shirt. Here also the nightcap is
Speaker 6: crushed in bloodstained from the blows of the poker.
Speaker 2: No, Generald Lovelace had prepared the bed.
Speaker 4: With a glass of water on the night table, and
Speaker 4: the prayer book of the watch.
Speaker 6: Yes, signs of a prosperous and meticulous man. They fine
Speaker 6: gold watch and in excellent condition.
Speaker 2: Ah, there's the answer, Watson, What do you mean?
Speaker 3: There's the answer Watson.
Speaker 6: I just wound this watch one turn and then it
Speaker 6: was fully wound. That provides us with the time schedule
Speaker 6: for armorer. Come on, well, send a serven.
Speaker 2: For the police, and while they're on the way.
Speaker 6: If you'll call everyone together, I should like to put
Speaker 6: a few more questions to this family before the police arrive.
Speaker 6: I should like to carry your statements again very carefully,
Speaker 6: if you don't mind, mister Edmund Lovelace, what with your
Speaker 6: exact movements tonight? I left here shortly before ten, from
Speaker 6: ten o'clock until the time I came to Baker Street
Speaker 6: House with my clent. His name and address Peace, Derek
Speaker 6: Waterlowty nine on snow squares off KENSI.
Speaker 2: Thank you making note of these.
Speaker 6: Willie Watson, you, miss Harley, and you, mister Randolph Lovelace
Speaker 6: went to the theater together. Can any independent witness testify
Speaker 6: as to your movements?
Speaker 7: Yes, mister Holmes, we went with friends, the grant More's days.
Speaker 7: They live at the Clarendon Hotel of charing Cross.
Speaker 2: What time did you leave this house? Well, it was
Speaker 2: about a quarter to eight, wasn't it als.
Speaker 7: Yes, and after the play we went to the Cafe
Speaker 7: Royal for a little refreshment with our friends, and then
Speaker 7: came back here.
Speaker 2: I see. And what time did you arrive back at
Speaker 2: this house?
Speaker 6: Just a few minutes before midnight? I remember the grand
Speaker 6: clock in the hall striking just as we went into
Speaker 6: the drawing room. And your brother Gilly Sair. I hate
Speaker 6: to waken him again. Have you any idea of his
Speaker 6: movements night? But he never goes out after darkness, Morris.
Speaker 6: But I spoke to the cook as we came in tonight.
Speaker 6: She says that he played cards with her until just
Speaker 6: after ten o'clock.
Speaker 7: He was fast asleep, and I looked in on him
Speaker 7: shortly after midnight.
Speaker 6: Thank you you've made a note of all these facts, Watson, Yes,
Speaker 6: I got them.
Speaker 2: Alder good. Then let's be on our way to Baker Street.
Speaker 2: But the police, mister Holmes, there on their way, I know.
Speaker 2: Please give them my regards.
Speaker 6: Will you apologize for my informality and tell them that
Speaker 6: I'll have the answer to this matter probably in a
Speaker 6: little over twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: Holmes, here it is well after midnight. You haven't done
Speaker 4: a thing on the camera world case.
Speaker 6: No, but you have old Jap You've checked and all
Speaker 6: the time out of eyes and bob them valid.
Speaker 2: I'm much obliged to.
Speaker 3: Till the Start was here tonight, you know. And he
Speaker 3: made some pretty caustic remarks. I can tell you.
Speaker 6: Oh didn't you inform him that I'll had the answer
Speaker 6: to the problem before?
Speaker 2: Many hours have passed.
Speaker 4: Little, but you know the Start he wanted action he
Speaker 4: don't have it.
Speaker 2: Is the watch still running?
Speaker 4: Another thing? What will the Start say when he finds it?
Speaker 4: You took the dead Manut's what?
Speaker 2: I have no idea?
Speaker 3: Oh well did you take it anywhere?
Speaker 6: And you sound sleepy, old chap? I'm gonna bit, and
Speaker 6: why don't you go to bed?
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 6: Continue my vigil with my pipe and the watch of
Speaker 6: a dead man?
Speaker 2: What's what's wake up? A five o'clock in the morning?
Speaker 3: Are you doing up at this?
Speaker 2: The watch has just stopped and I'm about to rewind it.
Speaker 3: What are you rewinding it for? Homes? You waited over
Speaker 3: twenty four hours for un one?
Speaker 6: When I know how it turns it to wind it fully,
Speaker 6: I shall have the answer to the whole business.
Speaker 2: Ten eleven.
Speaker 3: You're being confoundedly mysterious as usual.
Speaker 6: Fourteen fourteen turns and the watch is fully wound.
Speaker 2: Get your clothes on, old chapter.
Speaker 3: Where are we going on this?
Speaker 6: The house in Camberwell, now I know who murdered Gerald's Lovelace,
Speaker 6: mister Edmund Lovelace.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you let us in. Please take us up
Speaker 2: to your young cousin's room at once. What do you
Speaker 2: want with that explained moment? Please take us up to it, of.
Speaker 6: Course, But what brings you hear it this hour of
Speaker 6: the morning.
Speaker 3: The terms knows who murdered your cousin who.
Speaker 6: I'm glad to hear it. It's more than the police
Speaker 6: seemed to know. They were here half the night class
Speaker 6: examining us. Here we are. I don't think we're bother
Speaker 6: to knock Billy, Billy, I'm awake.
Speaker 5: We heard you coming up the stairs, didn't we. Gladston,
Speaker 5: it's the same man again. You're not gonna take Gladston away,
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 3: Please? Don't take him away.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, Gilly, We're not gonna touch him.
Speaker 6: Oh that's all right then, Oh Gilly, Yes, you really
Speaker 6: love that dog, don't you.
Speaker 2: Of course I do more than anything or anybody.
Speaker 6: I believe you'd even kill a man who tried to
Speaker 6: hurt Gladston.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't Joe.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir, I.
Speaker 6: Won't kill it.
Speaker 2: No great shotter, Gilly. I don't think you really kill
Speaker 2: a man. I don't think you could ha hah.
Speaker 6: Couldn't die though, How would you kill him?
Speaker 2: I'd hit him first.
Speaker 5: I'd take a poker and hit him on the head
Speaker 5: so he couldn't fight back. And then I'd take the
Speaker 5: nasty needle he told me he was going to stick
Speaker 5: in Gladston and and I'd fill it full of that
Speaker 5: water he showed me, and I'd stick it in him.
Speaker 2: That's what I'd do.
Speaker 5: Then he'd be dead and he couldn't hurt my glasson anymore.
Speaker 6: Let's leave him, shall we? Goodbye Gilly, pleasant dreams, goodbye, sir.
Speaker 6: You're satisfied, sir, Yes, poor Gilly, there's.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it, of course.
Speaker 4: Can there be no one who described the murder to him,
Speaker 4: and yet he's just given an exact description of its method.
Speaker 6: What what will happened to him?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 6: They won't try, no, no, no, no, little pressure in
Speaker 6: the right faces, and he'll be released through a private
Speaker 6: nursing home. I'll do everything I can, mister Lovelace, Thank you,
Speaker 6: mister Helms, thank you.
Speaker 3: Very much.
Speaker 4: Well, Holmes, now that we're back in Baker Streets and
Speaker 4: the whole depressing case is finished with, perhaps you'll tell
Speaker 4: me how you knew that Billy had committed them.
Speaker 6: Consider the time schedules overallo. You checked the alibis and
Speaker 6: the other cousins and found them satisfactory. That meant that
Speaker 6: Alice Harley and Randolph Lovelace could have committed the crime
Speaker 6: only at midnight, Edmund, only before ten, Gilly only around eleven.
Speaker 6: You said that the time of death could have been
Speaker 6: at any of those hours, Yes, I.
Speaker 3: Did, so how did you put it down to eleven?
Speaker 6: The watch gave me the specific answer. When I picked
Speaker 6: it up, I'm thinkingly wound. It made one turn, was
Speaker 6: then fully wound. Now, when does a methodical, precise man
Speaker 6: like Gerald Lovelace wind his watch? She's going to be
Speaker 6: it exactly, O Colum, so that it was obvious that
Speaker 6: he was killed precisely one watch stem turn before I
Speaker 6: wound his watch.
Speaker 3: Now I'm beginning to see daylight homes. So you let
Speaker 3: the watch run down.
Speaker 2: That's what I did.
Speaker 6: It took twenty eight hours, from one o'clock the night
Speaker 6: before last until five this morning.
Speaker 2: Now, how many turns did it to rewind it?
Speaker 3: Fourteen?
Speaker 2: Isn't that right?
Speaker 6: Therefore one turn of the watch stem equal two hours,
Speaker 6: proving that gerald Lovelace had been murdered two hours before
Speaker 6: one o'clock at eleven pm, when.
Speaker 4: Gilly was the only one who could have done it.
Speaker 4: You know, Holmes, I still find it hard to believe
Speaker 4: that the boy was capable of such a ghastly crime.
Speaker 3: He seems so gentle, oh.
Speaker 6: Years he is, except when his beloved dog's life was
Speaker 6: at stake. Probably out of some mistaken notion of kindness,
Speaker 6: gerald Lovelace warned the boy of his intentions regarding the dog.
Speaker 2: It's a sad business. What's in a sad business?
Speaker 4: I hate to think that that boy is spending the
Speaker 4: rest of his life in a mental home.
Speaker 2: I have one prayer for his future.
Speaker 3: What's there Horme?
Speaker 2: The dog Bladstone can't live very long.
Speaker 6: I pray that Gilly It does not long outlive him.