Speaker 1: My story, the Adventure of the Empty House.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are as usual and doctor Watson's hospital
Speaker 2: study already and waiting for a weekly treat.
Speaker 1: What's it to be tonight, Doctor Watson? Tonight? I think
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how Homes made an unexpected and I
Speaker 1: may say the medic return after many years absence. And
Speaker 1: I've always said it's a good thing to absent yourself
Speaker 1: from time to time, makes people appreciate you when you
Speaker 1: come back. That's what Holmes said the time he was
Speaker 1: missing for three years. Three years, that's a pretty long
Speaker 1: lapse of time. Yes, it was rather everyone thought he
Speaker 1: was dead. What horrible time that was. I couldn't bear
Speaker 1: to live in our own lodgings in Baker Street, associations
Speaker 1: and everything. That's funny, how sentimentally all are underneath. I've
Speaker 1: taken him back forth is in a more fashionable part
Speaker 1: of down and reassumed my medical practice. Because after Holmes
Speaker 1: had succeeded in driving Professor Moriarty out of England, we
Speaker 1: all believed Homes had sacrificed his life to rid society
Speaker 1: of that evil spirit. That sounds terrifically exciting.
Speaker 2: Doctor Water tell us how Holmes managed to put a
Speaker 2: finished morialty.
Speaker 1: What cannot Professor Murray off? And before I've told you
Speaker 1: the rest of our adventures with him, I should say
Speaker 1: not never catch me throwing away good material. Let's get
Speaker 1: down to cases fair enough, very well. It was in
Speaker 1: the spring of the year eighteen ninety four when all
Speaker 1: of London, the fashionable world in particular, was dismayed by
Speaker 1: the death under most unusual circumstances, the Honorable Ronald Adair,
Speaker 1: that lack of The young gentleman was the second son
Speaker 1: of the Earl of Maynooth. He lived together with his mother,
Speaker 1: the Countess of Maynooth, and his sister Hilda, at four
Speaker 1: twenty seven Park Lane. The youth moved in the best society,
Speaker 1: but was very fond of cards, played continually ah piling
Speaker 1: up gambling that she couldn't pay well. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, it came out in evidence that he had
Speaker 1: actually run as much as four hundred and twenty pounds
Speaker 1: in one sitting at his club the week previous from
Speaker 1: Godwin Miller and Lord Balmorrel. I believe it was his
Speaker 1: partner was a certain Colonel Morad but then he must
Speaker 1: have been well. I head of the game look right.
Speaker 1: And yet it was to this easy going, likable, I
Speaker 1: might even say lucky, young aristocrat, that death came in
Speaker 1: a most strange and unexpected form. On the night of
Speaker 1: the March the thirtieth, the return from this club shortly
Speaker 1: after ten, his mother and sister having gone to the opera,
Speaker 1: The butler Peter swore that he heard him enter the
Speaker 1: front room on the second floor, literally used as his
Speaker 1: sitting room. The night being chilly, he had did a fire,
Speaker 1: and as it showed a tendency to smoke, one of
Speaker 1: the front windows had been opened about four inches. Nothing
Speaker 1: further us had from this sitting room until eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: the hour of the return of Lady Maynooth and her daughter.
Speaker 1: Peter's testified that her ladyship seemed rather agitated.
Speaker 3: Vicious Hilda, I den care, I'm chilled to the bone,
Speaker 3: and time.
Speaker 1: My oh, Peter's will you help me with my carriage boots?
Speaker 1: You returned so early. I trusted the opera was not
Speaker 1: a disappointment.
Speaker 3: No, Indeed, Peter's wish heaven me. Namma can never bear
Speaker 3: to stay for the death scenes at the end, so depressing.
Speaker 3: I always think, Wanama, I've always thought calm and was
Speaker 3: terribly gay just because he knife said her last scene
Speaker 3: does know, I know, but.
Speaker 1: So primitive, so brutal. And that bit in the gypsy camp.
Speaker 3: Where Calmon keeps turning up the ace of.
Speaker 4: Spades, the card of death, I well, I had the
Speaker 4: queerest foreboding during that scene, as though Ronnie needed me.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, I do wish you wouldn't play with so often.
Speaker 1: It's good for him. A boy his age should have
Speaker 1: other interests. I wish I could get that Ace of
Speaker 1: Spades out of my mind.
Speaker 4: I can't help feeling it means something.
Speaker 3: Oh nonsense, mamma, you've just giving yourself another case of
Speaker 3: the piget. The English climate that's depressing you.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 3: One day of sunshine and you'll be as gay as
Speaker 3: a laugh.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, I hope so, Oh dear, listen to that wind,
Speaker 4: fog and rain, rain and hoog Peters.
Speaker 1: Has mister Gonald come in yet? Yes, milady, over an
Speaker 1: hour ago. He's upstairs in.
Speaker 5: His sitting room.
Speaker 1: Well, thank Heaven for that. I think I'll just go
Speaker 1: up and say good night to him.
Speaker 3: That's right, mamma. Make sure he isn't sitting in a
Speaker 3: draft Kilda.
Speaker 4: Really, I declare, I don't know what children are coming
Speaker 4: to nowadays, no respect for their parents.
Speaker 1: Good night, and you're not to sit up in all
Speaker 1: ours mine?
Speaker 3: No, Mama, really, I don't know how young girls nowadays
Speaker 3: expect to keep their looks if they never go to bed.
Speaker 1: Oh, dear that.
Speaker 4: Wind, it's so eerie, Ronnie, Ronny, dear it's mother.
Speaker 5: Why it's locked?
Speaker 3: The door's locked, Ronnie? Are you all right, bunny, Ronnie?
Speaker 4: He's looking tilling.
Speaker 3: He doesn't answer, peteres Peter, Oh, come quickly afraid?
Speaker 4: Oh Monny, why don't you answer?
Speaker 1: No, don't worry me, lady.
Speaker 3: He's probably fallen asleep, Robbie.
Speaker 5: Oh, here's I'm fighting Peter's he just cut.
Speaker 2: Them with the door down.
Speaker 3: I can cry, my lady now then both together.
Speaker 1: H yeah, he's lady, I've fallen asleep at the disk.
Speaker 4: But he looks so strange, can't stat it everywhere And
Speaker 4: look there.
Speaker 3: The ace of stage, there's blood on it. Blood looking
Speaker 3: onto the topet Ronnie. Oh, Peter's quick, help me, she's fainted.
Speaker 4: Put it on the couch.
Speaker 1: Shall I call the doctor? Miss long? Never mind, mother,
Speaker 1: it's rolly.
Speaker 5: We have to worry about.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's not too late. Oh Ronnie, Oh his head?
Speaker 5: How horrible?
Speaker 1: Shot with a soft bullet? Did it not look miss?
Speaker 1: It's not nice, Ronnie Darling. Why did you do it?
Speaker 1: He didn't, miss, but Peters, he must have.
Speaker 5: The door was locked on the inside. It's not suicide,
Speaker 5: Miss Hilda, it's murder.
Speaker 1: Mister Ronnick couldn't have done it.
Speaker 6: There's no weapon anywhere in the room.
Speaker 1: But look here, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Ronald Adare was in the second story sitting room with
Speaker 2: the door locked on the inside.
Speaker 1: Exactly, mister Hallis. Furthermore, he was in the room alone, yes,
Speaker 1: but if someone else shot him, how is that possible?
Speaker 1: That's what puzzled the authorities. No one could have climbed
Speaker 1: up to the open window without leaving traces of some sort.
Speaker 1: The outside wall was perfectly smooth, no ivy, no water paths. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: there was a drop of over twenty feet from the
Speaker 1: window to the ground.
Speaker 2: Well, then the murderer couldn't have been in the room
Speaker 2: with younger there. He must have shot at him from
Speaker 2: the streak.
Speaker 1: The law nem that the window was open only four
Speaker 1: inches and the glass was not shattered. That would be
Speaker 1: a pretty remarkable shut down. Furthermore, Park Lane is not
Speaker 1: an unfrequented thoroughfare, and there is a cab stand within
Speaker 1: fifty yards of the house, and yet no one heard
Speaker 1: a shot. Nicetycle problem exactly. Scott and Yard was at
Speaker 1: its wits end. Our old friend inspected a straw, even
Speaker 1: when Sir follows to consult me in the matter, knowing
Speaker 1: how familiar I was with Holme's method of deduction, and
Speaker 1: so I promised to have a look at the facade
Speaker 1: of Lady Maylwood's house in Park Lane to see if
Speaker 1: anything suggested itself to me. And did it now, mister,
Speaker 1: it's you're anticipating again, all right. Well so it was
Speaker 1: but around six o'clock that evening I found myself at
Speaker 1: the Oxford Street end of Park Lane. The heterogeneous connection
Speaker 1: of loafers on the pavement, all standing up at the
Speaker 1: particular window directed me to the house I had come
Speaker 1: to see it. Well, good evening, Constable, good Dr Watson, Sir,
Speaker 1: I've told you i'd be dropping around. We'll look at
Speaker 1: single crime. Yes, nice little crowd you've connected here. Happened
Speaker 1: like a good.
Speaker 7: Murder to bring him out of their out and look
Speaker 7: at that old cutty up there with the white whiskers,
Speaker 7: pushed his way up to the fire. He ain't been
Speaker 7: out of doors for much the speed.
Speaker 1: Dusty does in the bibli file to watch the book.
Speaker 1: Lever noticed the titles of the volumes under his arm
Speaker 1: and say, let's have a look in tree worship, same
Speaker 1: language of the druids life in early crete evidence that
Speaker 1: collects obscure volumes, either as a trade or a hobby,
Speaker 1: will and they would have noticed.
Speaker 7: I'll added to you, doctor Watson, you're almost as good
Speaker 7: with your deductions as mister Sherlock Holmes himself.
Speaker 1: Elementary, My dear constable elementary a bad cough luncondition. Probably, well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to be anything much to discover. No
Speaker 1: possible way of scanning the front of the building from below.
Speaker 1: How about the roof could have come across from another building?
Speaker 1: Now spects five.
Speaker 7: That first thing, groops all divided off with iron bars
Speaker 7: spikes on them, was easy to break into the Bank
Speaker 7: of England.
Speaker 1: We'll never be getting on home. Yes, I see, even
Speaker 1: homes couldn't solve this.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 2: Here's look where you're going, you clumsy fool, I say,
Speaker 2: And I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 1: I hope you're not her who cares about me? It's
Speaker 1: my books that matter. Struck them right down in my hand.
Speaker 1: Everything you are lying all over the road, my dom
Speaker 1: nick covers. Oh please let me pick them up. You don't.
Speaker 1: Don't you touch them?
Speaker 5: You've done enough.
Speaker 1: Damn it already messy gives such a miss. Nobody appreciates
Speaker 1: good books. Start at least let me apologize.
Speaker 5: I go way, don't bother me.
Speaker 1: Can't you see I'm busy? Whom can't you? You're sure
Speaker 1: knew you're standing around here? Well maybe it's right, uh,
Speaker 1: good night? Possible? But not doctor stars let a pad
Speaker 1: me case he wants me all while I was out rosy,
Speaker 1: Oh good, maybe my luck is in tonight. At that
Speaker 1: time I had a peaceful evening at home. I spoke
Speaker 1: too soon? See what it is this time? Rosy? Coupon
Speaker 1: measles no more ribs is an a simese twin doctor
Speaker 1: con call is so old? And that's whatever? Who is it?
Speaker 1: And what does he think he has?
Speaker 3: Patient?
Speaker 5: Sir? No?
Speaker 3: What then, sir, he's a white whiskers said to tell
Speaker 3: you it was your biblopool calling?
Speaker 1: What? Oh the BLI you're surprised to see me so soon?
Speaker 1: What hell are you do? Come in? Come me that?
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, that's all it, yes, sir, Oh,
Speaker 1: please it down. I hope you recovered from the bump
Speaker 1: I gave you.
Speaker 2: That's what I came to see you about, doctor once
Speaker 2: tonight is I've got a conscience, sir.
Speaker 5: And when I chanced to.
Speaker 2: See you come into this house, I came hobbling after
Speaker 2: you because I said to myself, I'll just step in
Speaker 2: and see that kind gentlemen and telling min I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I was a bit crap a while back and at
Speaker 2: New Harmed and I'm much obliged for offering.
Speaker 1: To pick up my book, not at all. And maybe
Speaker 1: you connect books yourself. Well, no, I can't say that.
Speaker 1: I don't and I'm never too late to learn. Now
Speaker 1: here's a copy of British Birds and.
Speaker 2: And here's a very fine or perhaps this this Holy
Speaker 2: War would be more in your life. Well, I don't
Speaker 2: work in every one of them with five volume, which
Speaker 2: you could just fill.
Speaker 1: That gap on the second shelf. So I'm tiny, Maria Watson,
Speaker 1: quite unlike your own self. Wolves. Obviously, I wondered how
Speaker 1: long it it take you to penetrate.
Speaker 2: By the sky. And you're not you're you're you're not
Speaker 2: you're reasoning, my dear Watson.
Speaker 1: As usual, it's follows. I'm the hem to think that easy?
Speaker 1: What easy? Easy?
Speaker 2: In my by, I think I sit down, it's a
Speaker 2: very good idea. I'd better have a nip with this branded.
Speaker 1: My dear once in a thousand apologies. I had no
Speaker 1: idea you'd be so affected. But I am not made
Speaker 1: of chills the steel like you that we were. Oh,
Speaker 1: where's my branding? Here you are, that's sus it's really
Speaker 1: you standing here in my study. Well then, Heaven why
Speaker 1: you you?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: You old red from How in Heaven's name did you
Speaker 1: ever come back alive out of that deadpool castle where
Speaker 1: who had Professor Murriarky met his death? It's quite simple.
Speaker 1: I was never there, yes, but good Heaven's homes. It's
Speaker 1: been three years. You you you let us believe you
Speaker 1: were dead all that time out I was that nice.
Speaker 2: I am not not nice, Watson, but necessary you see,
Speaker 2: Marie Artists gang was still to.
Speaker 1: Be dealt with.
Speaker 2: I was much safer if they believed I'd met my
Speaker 2: death at the same time as there his leader, the
Speaker 2: three years I've been living in disguise, cracking the members
Speaker 2: of that foul brotherhood at the ends of the earth.
Speaker 2: Now I'm happy to say there's only one left to
Speaker 2: be dealt with.
Speaker 1: But a little look here is rid in't you? Why
Speaker 1: didn't you let me know who you were? And I
Speaker 1: but I'd dumped into and parplay just now.
Speaker 2: Because my dear Watson, you are being watched by the
Speaker 2: man I'm after, the last of Mariotti's gang.
Speaker 1: Good heavens, who is he?
Speaker 2: Someone you doubtless know, Watson. You may have even played
Speaker 2: whist with him on numerous occasions and lost. Most people
Speaker 2: lose when they play with the Tiger, as Mariotti used
Speaker 2: to call him, the clever man, Watson, very clever. He
Speaker 2: not only suspects that I'm alive, he even guesses I've
Speaker 2: returned to London.
Speaker 1: Good Lord, Yes, but I mean to take advantage.
Speaker 2: Of this cleverness. I've set a trap for him. I
Speaker 2: expect to catch my tiger to night to night exactly.
Speaker 2: I don't suppose you'd care to come along, you you.
Speaker 1: You just try to prevent me, That's all I have
Speaker 1: to say. If they wait till I get my hat
Speaker 1: and stay.
Speaker 2: I think you'll find your old army revolver a little
Speaker 2: more appropriate.
Speaker 5: Watson.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, I said, Holmes. Do we have to do
Speaker 1: all this pussy footing down dark mus and through smelly stables? Absolutely, mydea.
Speaker 2: Watson's essential that we should not be followed at this
Speaker 2: stage of the game. Yes, we pasted Manchester Street and
Speaker 2: Blandford Street.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Down this narrow passage, good lord, it's as dark as
Speaker 2: the black hole of calc Cutter.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Scale this fence. Scale the fence. Now, don't kill me.
Speaker 1: You let yourself get out of condition during my hands
Speaker 1: and certainly not only do you think it's quite dignified?
Speaker 1: And probably not? But who'll ever know? Will you?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh uh? I r in the knees of my trouds.
Speaker 1: Will stop doubling, Watson and come along. We've got to
Speaker 1: get into this house. Yes, but look here, it's a
Speaker 1: it's an empty house. Might might wires elected it? Now,
Speaker 1: where did I put that key? And tell me you're
Speaker 1: not going to pick the lock homes. You're losing your grip. Quiet,
Speaker 1: Come in easy? Does it shut down on you? Gentle,
Speaker 1: my dear Watson. Well, I'm doing my best. There was
Speaker 1: a draft were now bought.
Speaker 2: Come along upstairs, we should get a good view from
Speaker 2: the windows of the upper front room in our homes.
Speaker 1: Is something spooky about an empty house? A strange noise
Speaker 1: is board squeaking easy kurnd a corner. Here be with me, absolutely, ah,
Speaker 1: this is the room excellent.
Speaker 5: The light from the steet length all the illumination we
Speaker 5: shall need.
Speaker 1: Look here, homes. There's something familiar about this street out there.
Speaker 2: Well, of course it's it's Maker Street exactly. We're in
Speaker 2: Camden House, which stands opposite our old quarters, and.
Speaker 1: You have no wonder it would look familiar. But why
Speaker 1: stationed ourselves here?
Speaker 2: Because it commands an excellent view of our historic dwelling.
Speaker 2: Might I puble you, my dear Watson, to flow a
Speaker 2: little nearer to at the window, taking every precaution not
Speaker 2: to show yourself right, and then look up at our
Speaker 2: old rooms.
Speaker 5: We can see if three years of absence have entirely
Speaker 5: taken away my power to surprise you.
Speaker 1: Well, the winners of our sitting room are added. I
Speaker 1: see there's a man sitting in front of the one. Well,
Speaker 1: if here it's you, the letter that is Aditi's your silhouette.
Speaker 5: If the bus stop made it be exact. Anything else
Speaker 5: of interest in Baker Street.
Speaker 1: Let's see, there's two directive looking fellows leaning against a
Speaker 1: lamp of excellent Watson, and I effected them. Whome's good,
Speaker 1: heavens your head. I mean the dummy It moved.
Speaker 5: Of course, our old friend, missu Hudson has orders to
Speaker 5: move it from below.
Speaker 1: From time to time. This knocks that standing at the door.
Speaker 2: Yes, I felt a draft. By all that's holy, he's
Speaker 2: going to operate from inside this building. I expected to
Speaker 2: get work from the street as he did before. Quick Watson,
Speaker 2: we've got to get out of here. You probably want
Speaker 2: this window.
Speaker 1: You mean, whoever we're offering, he's coming in here, and
Speaker 1: of course, quick wats may have coming from. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Stand in the shadow where we can watch him without
Speaker 5: being seen.
Speaker 1: I hear footsteps.
Speaker 5: He's coming quiet a few value your life.
Speaker 1: Standing in the doorway, and his face is in the
Speaker 1: shadow of his hat.
Speaker 5: But he's got his eyes blazed in the dark like
Speaker 5: a cat's, like a tiger's Watson. He's crossing to the window.
Speaker 1: He's raising the window not.
Speaker 5: Very far, Watson, that won't be necessary.
Speaker 1: Speak. He's walking, Steak, where's he going to get out
Speaker 1: of the window.
Speaker 2: It's a gun, Watson, devolition invention doesn't make a sound.
Speaker 2: He's going to make a shot at my silhouette. When
Speaker 2: we hear the window across the street crash, we know
Speaker 2: he's fired.
Speaker 1: He's aiming.
Speaker 2: Kidding Watson, moren't put your happy I squeeze and.
Speaker 5: You don't.
Speaker 1: Ah, Watson, what's me all right? I knock him out here? Absolute?
Speaker 1: What's that for?
Speaker 2: Those two men from Scotland Yard down to the street
Speaker 2: leaning against the lamp post. I must say I thought
Speaker 2: our friend here would do his dirty work outside so
Speaker 2: they could deal with him firsthand. Ah, here come the regulars.
Speaker 1: Well, well, if it isn't the star human, it is
Speaker 1: to dumb myself. And maybe we weren't glad to get
Speaker 1: your message. It's struttled your half an hour ago. Although
Speaker 1: I must say we've done pretty well down there in your.
Speaker 2: Absence, really solved Ronald adair mystery. Yet oh well, that
Speaker 2: is all sleeping beauties.
Speaker 5: He's becoming true.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, allow me to present Colonel Sebastian Moran later her
Speaker 2: Majesty's Indian Army. I believe I'm correct, Colonel in saying
Speaker 2: that your bag of tigers still remains unrivaled.
Speaker 1: You'll go to blazers. Yes, a remarkable shot.
Speaker 2: You and your air gun were invaluable to the late
Speaker 2: Professor Moriarty.
Speaker 1: I might have known that, wasn't you in the window?
Speaker 2: Quite I'm surprised that such a simple spatigemen could deceive
Speaker 2: so old a shaikha.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: How often, colonel, have you covered a goat to a
Speaker 2: tree lain above it with your rifle and waited for
Speaker 2: the bait to attract your tiger? This empty house is
Speaker 2: my tree. You are my tiger, the only difference being
Speaker 2: that I did not care to be the goat myself.
Speaker 2: Take him away, Let drat.
Speaker 1: Just a moment. You can't arrest me.
Speaker 7: But a shot at the dummy, not even if it's
Speaker 7: a dummy or shello.
Speaker 2: Comes just quite quite, I rescue for the murder of
Speaker 2: the Honorable Ronald Adare because you are the only man
Speaker 2: alive capable of shooting a man through the slightly opened
Speaker 2: window from the steak below without being heard. A truly
Speaker 2: remarkable shot, Colonel, A poor remarkable That's how I.
Speaker 1: Knew you were the murderer.
Speaker 2: And I'll come along you Rank bring that stick. Are
Speaker 2: you needed this evidence? Well, Watson, what do you say?
Speaker 2: Shall we step across the street bar Old Cooper Sriter.
Speaker 2: I think you'll find everything just as it used to be,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure missus Hudson is anxiously awaiting us.
Speaker 1: With sandwiches and a steaming part of coffee.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: You see, I remember your weakness, smilingness.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 1: And that, mister Harris, is the story of how I
Speaker 1: went to live in Baker Street again and started another
Speaker 1: series of incredible and amazing adventures, which I should tell
Speaker 1: you about if it won't boil you. What do you think,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson? You know there's just one thing I don't
Speaker 1: understand about tonight's story though. Why did Colonel Moran kill
Speaker 1: Ronald A. Dare Because the Dare had discovered Morane was
Speaker 1: cheating at cards and threatened to expose him. You remember
Speaker 1: that I said that there had won four hundred pounds
Speaker 1: at whist the week before with Moran as if partner, Yes,
Speaker 1: that made that amount made Adare suspicious. He discovered the
Speaker 1: cards were marked the very cause by the way, which
Speaker 1: were found besides the day the exam to be sure
Speaker 1: it made no mistake that's why the door was locked
Speaker 1: on the inside. Didn't want anyone to interrupt me.