1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:03,800 Adventure, five of The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,500 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:11,600 the public domain. Adventure 5, the adventure of 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:17,600 The Priory School part 1. We've had some dramatic 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,400 entrances, and exits. Upon Our small stage at Baker 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,700 Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and 7 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:26,000 startling. And the first appearance of 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,700 thornycroft Huxtable M.A., Ph.D., Etc. 9 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:33,100 His card which seemed too small to carry the weight of his 10 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:36,800 academic distinctions preceded him by a few seconds. 11 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:41,700 And then he entered himself. So large, so pompous and so 12 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:45,200 dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,200 and solidity. And yet his first action when 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,700 the door had closed behind him was to stagger against the table 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,900 when she slipped down upon the floor. 16 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,900 And there was that Majestic figure prostrate and insensible 17 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,800 Upon Our bare skin. Hearthrug, we had sprung, to our 18 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,000 feet and for a few moments we stared in silent amazement at 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,300 this ponderous piece of wreckage, which told of some 20 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,600 sudden and fatal storm far out on the ocean of life. 21 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:18,000 Then homes hurried with a cushion for his head and I with 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,800 Brandy for his lips. The heavy white face was seemed 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,700 with lines of trouble, hanging pouches under the closed eyes 24 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:29,800 were LED in in color, the loose mouth drooped, dolorous lie at 25 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,800 the corners. The rolling chins were unshaven. 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,700 Color and shirt for the grime of a long journey and the hair 27 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:40,300 bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head. 28 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:44,100 It was a sorely stricken man who lay before us. 29 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,000 What is it? Watson asked, Holmes. 30 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:51,600 Absolute exhaustion, possibly near hunger. 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,800 And fatigue said, I with my finger on the thready pulse 32 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:58,100 where the stream of Life trickled thin and small. 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,900 Return ticket from mackleton in the north of England said, 34 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:05,000 Holmes, drawing it from the watch pocket. 35 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:09,100 It is not 12 o'clock yet. He has certainly been an early 36 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:12,700 starter. The pocket eyelids had begun to 37 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,400 quiver. And now a pair of vacant gray 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,400 eyes looked up at us. An instant later. 39 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,700 The man had scrambled onto his feet. 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,900 His face Crimson with shame, for give this weakness. 41 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,100 Mr. Holmes. I have been a little 42 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,300 overwrought. Thank you. 43 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:33,600 If I might have a glass of milk and a biscuit. 44 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,000 I have no doubt that I should be better. 45 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:40,000 I came personally. Mr. Holmes in order to ensure 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,400 that you would return. It's me. 47 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,200 I feared that no telegram would have convinced you of the 48 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:51,300 absolute urgency of the case. When you are quite restored, I 49 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:55,700 am quite well again, I cannot imagine how it came to be so 50 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:57,800 weak. I wish you mr. 51 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,800 Holmes, to come to mackleton with me by the next train, my 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,200 friend shook his head. My colleague. 53 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,800 Dr. Watson could tell you that we are very busy at present. 54 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,300 I am retained in this case of the ferrars documents and the, a 55 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:16,400 bag of any murder is coming up for trial. 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Only a very important issue could call me from London. 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,000 At present important, our visitor, threw up his hands. 58 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,000 Have you heard nothing of the Abduction of the only son of the 59 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,900 Duke of holdernesse? What? 60 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:37,900 The late cabinet minister? We tried to keep it out of the 61 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,400 papers, but there was some rumor in the Globe last night. 62 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,700 I thought it might have reached your ears Holmes shut out his 63 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:50,200 long thin arm and picked out volume H in his Encyclopedia of 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,200 reference. Holden S6. 65 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,500 Duke. Kgp see half the alphabet, Baron 66 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:00,100 Beverly. Earl of Karsten. 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,600 Dear me what a list. Lord. 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Lieutenant of Hallam. Shh. 69 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:08,000 Since 1900 married Edith daughter of Sir. 70 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,800 Charles appledore 1888 are and only child. 71 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,800 Lord saltire owns about 250,000 Acres minerals in Lancashire and 72 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,700 Wales address Carlton house Terrace. 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,400 Holding asshole Hallam Chaya, Karsten Castle Bangor. 74 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,500 Wales lord of the admiralty, 1872, Chief Secretary of State 75 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,700 for. Well, this man is certainly one 76 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:39,100 of the greatest subjects of the crown, the greatest, and perhaps 77 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:41,300 the wealthiest. I am aware. 78 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:44,400 Mr. Holmes, that you take a very high line and professional 79 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,000 matters and that you're prepared to work for the work sake. 80 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:54,300 I may tell you, however, That is Grace has already intimated but 81 00:04:54,300 --> 00:04:57,900 a check for 5,000 pounds. Will be handed over to the 82 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:02,100 person who can tell him where his son is and another thousand 83 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:05,000 to him. Who can name the man or men who 84 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,100 have taken him. It is a princely. 85 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:13,000 Offer said Holmes Watson, I think do we shall accompany dr. 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,700 Huxtable back to the north of England and now dr. 87 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:20,700 Huxtable when you have consumed that milk, you will kindly tell 88 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:25,100 me what has happened when it happened, how it happened. 89 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:28,400 And finally what dr. Soni Croft Huxtable of The 90 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,600 Priory school near mackleton, has to do with the matter and 91 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,500 why he comes three days after an event the state of your chin. 92 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:40,000 The date to ask for my humble services. 93 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,300 Our visitor had consumed is milk and biscuits. 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,700 The light had come back to his eyes and the color to his cheeks 95 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,200 as he set himself, with great Vigor and lucidity to explain 96 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,000 the situation. I must inform you gentlemen, 97 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,700 that The Priory is a preparatory school of which I am the founder 98 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:03,700 and principal huxtables sidelights on Horace. 99 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,400 May possibly recall. My name to your memories, The 100 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,400 Priory is without exception, the best and most select. 101 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,600 Parachute School in England. Lord, leave a stoke, the Earl of 102 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,100 Blackwater, circus card, soames. They all have entrusted, their 103 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:24,100 sons to me, but I felt that my school had reached its Zenith 104 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,800 when weeks ago, the Duke of holdernesse sent. 105 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,700 Mr. James Wilder, his secretary with intimation that young Lord 106 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:38,000 saltire, 10 years old, his only son and Heir was about to be 107 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 committed to my charge. Little, did I think That this 108 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,600 would be the Prelude to the most crushing Misfortune Of My Life. 109 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,300 On May 1st. The boy arrived that being from 110 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:52,800 the beginning of the summer term. 111 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:57,100 He was a Charming Youth and he soon fell into our ways. 112 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,400 I may tell you, I trust that I'm not Indiscreet but half 113 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,300 confidence are absurd in such case that he was not entirely 114 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:09,800 happy at home. It is an Open Secret that the 115 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,800 Dukes married life had not been a peaceful one, and the matter 116 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,900 had ended in a Separation by Mutual consent. 117 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,600 Duchess taking up her residence in the south of France. 118 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:25,500 This had occurred very shortly before and boys sympathies are 119 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:27,900 known to have been strongly with his mother. 120 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:32,500 He moktar after her departure from holdernesse Hall, and it 121 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:36,100 was for this reason that the Juke desire to send him to my 122 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:39,100 establishment. In a fortnight. 123 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:43,200 The boy was quite at home with us was apparently absolutely 124 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,200 happy. He was last seen on the night of 125 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:52,900 May 13th, that is the night of last Monday, his room was on the 126 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:55,900 second floor and it was approached through another large 127 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:58,000 room in which two boys were sleeping. 128 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:03,700 These boys saw and heard nothing so that it is certain that young 129 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,600 saltier did not pass out that way. 130 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:11,700 His window was open and there is a stout ivy plant leading to the 131 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,400 ground. We could trace no footmarks 132 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,800 below but it is sure that this is the Only possible exit. 133 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:23,800 His absence was discovered at 7:00 on Tuesday Morning. 134 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,100 His bed had been slept in. He had dressed himself fully 135 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:31,800 before going off in his usual School suit of black eaten 136 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,799 jacket and dark grey trousers. There were no signs of that any 137 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,200 would have entered the room and it is quite certain that 138 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,000 anything in the nature of cries or a struggle. 139 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:46,000 Would have been heard since quarter. 140 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,600 The Elder boy in the Inner Room is a very light sleeper. 141 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,900 When Lord salty, his disappearance was discovered. 142 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,100 I had once called a roll of the whole establishment, boys, 143 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:01,900 Masters and servants. It was then that we are 144 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,900 sustained that Lord saltier had not been alone in his flight, 145 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:09,800 Heidegger. The German master was missing. 146 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,500 His room was on the second floor, at the farther end of the 147 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:17,000 building facing the same way as Lord Soul tears. 148 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:21,300 His bed had also been slept in, but he had apparently gone away, 149 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:25,000 partly dressed since his shirt and socks were lying on the 150 00:09:25,008 --> 00:09:28,900 floor. He had undoubtedly let himself 151 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:32,300 down by the IV for. We could see the marks of his 152 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:34,500 feet where he had landed on the lawn. 153 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,100 His bicycle was kept in a small shed beside his lawn, and it 154 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:43,800 also was gone. He had been with me for two 155 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:48,900 years and came with a best references, but he Silent morose 156 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,600 man. Not very popular either with 157 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,900 Masters or boys. No. 158 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:55,900 Trace could be found of the fugitives. 159 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:00,500 And now on Thursday morning. We are as ignorant as we were on 160 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,800 Tuesday inquiry was of course, made at once at holdernesse 161 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,500 Hall, which is only a few miles away. 162 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,700 And we imagine that in some sudden attack of homesickness. 163 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,400 He had gone back to his father, but nothing had been heard of 164 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,500 him. The Duke is great. 165 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,000 Really agitated. And as to me, you have seen 166 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,200 yourselves a state of nervous prostration to which the 167 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,100 suspense, and the responsibilities have reduced 168 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:28,900 me. Mr. Holmes. 169 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:33,300 If ever you put forward your full Powers, I implore you to do 170 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:35,500 so. Now, for never in your life. 171 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,000 Could you have a case which is more worthy of them? 172 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,700 Sherlock Holmes, had listened with the utmost intentness, to 173 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:47,000 the statement of the unhappy, Schoolmaster his drawn brows, 174 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,100 and the Deep Furrow between them showed that he needed. 175 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:54,200 No, exhortation to concentrate. All his attention upon a problem 176 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:58,700 which apart from the tremendous interests involved, must appeal. 177 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:02,700 So directly to his love of the complex and the unusual. 178 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,800 He now Drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two 179 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,600 memoranda. You have been very remiss in not 180 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,200 coming to me sooner said he severely you start me on my 181 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,800 investigation with a very serious handicap. 182 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:23,500 It is conceivable. For example, this IV and this 183 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:26,500 lawn would have yielded nothing to an expert Observer. 184 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,900 I am not to blame. Mr. Holmes. 185 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,700 His grace was extremely desirous to avoid all public Scandal. 186 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,400 He was afraid of his family, unhappiness being dragged before 187 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,600 the world. He has a deep horror of anything 188 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,700 of the kind. But there has been some official 189 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,300 investigation. Yes, sir. 190 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,700 And it has proved most disappointing and apparent clue 191 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,300 was at once obtained, since a boy, and a young man were 192 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:00,200 reported to have been seen leaving a neighboring station by 193 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,100 an early train. Only last night. 194 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,500 We had news that the couple had been hunted down and Liverpool, 195 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:10,800 and they proved to have no connection, whatever, with the 196 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,000 matter in hand. Then it was that in my Despair 197 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,900 and disappointment, after a sleepless night. 198 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,200 I came straight to you by the early train. 199 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:25,700 I suppose the local investigation was relaxed, while 200 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:27,700 this false clue was being followed up. 201 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:33,900 It was entirely dropped so that three days have been wasted. 202 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,400 The affair has been most deplorably handled. 203 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:43,400 I feel it and admit it. And yet, the problem should be 204 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,600 capable of ultimate solution. I shall be very happy to look 205 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,300 into it. Have you been able to trace any 206 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,400 connection between the missing boy and his German Master? 207 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:57,900 Not at all? Was he in the master's class? 208 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:02,900 No, he never exchanged a word with him so far as I know. 209 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,100 That is certainly very singular had the boy a bicycle. 210 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,400 No. Was any other bicycle missing 211 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:19,000 know? Is that certain quite well? 212 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,500 Now you do not mean to seriously suggest that this German rode 213 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,600 off on a bicycle in the dead of the night. 214 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,600 Bearing the boy in his arms. Certainly, not. 215 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,100 Then. What is the theory in your mind? 216 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:36,700 The bicycle may have been a blind. 217 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:39,900 It may have been hidden somewhere in the pair gone off 218 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:45,500 on foot quite so, but it seems rather an absurd blind. 219 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:47,200 Does it? Not were there? 220 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:52,200 Other bicycles in this shed? Several would he not have hidden 221 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,500 a couple? Had he desired to give the idea 222 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,000 that they had gone off upon them? 223 00:13:57,100 --> 00:14:00,600 I suppose he would, of course. He would. 224 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:05,200 The blind Theory won't do, but the incident is an admirable 225 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,400 starting point for an investigation. 226 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:11,900 After all, a bicycle is not an easy thing to conceal or to 227 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:17,100 destroy one other question. Did anyone call to see the boy 228 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:18,900 on the day before he disappeared? 229 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:27,700 No, did he get any letters? Yes, a one letter from whom from 230 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:31,500 his father. Do you open the boys letters? 231 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,400 Know how do you know is from the Father? 232 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,100 The coat of arms was on the envelope and it was addressed in 233 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:45,000 the Dukes peculiarly stiff hand. Besides the Duke remembers 234 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,700 having written, when had he a letter before, that. 235 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:54,200 Not for several days. Had he ever won from France, 236 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,300 though. Never. 237 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,500 You see the point of my questions, of course, either the 238 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:05,600 boy was carried off by force, or he went off, his own free will 239 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,000 in the latter case. You would expect that some 240 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:12,000 prompting from outside would be needed to make. 241 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 So young girl. Add do such a thing. 242 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,600 If he has had no visitors that prompting must have come in 243 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,100 letters. Hence. 244 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:23,000 I try to find out who were his correspondence. 245 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,800 I fear I cannot help you much his only correspondence so far, 246 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,800 as I know was his own father who wrote to him on the very day of 247 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:38,500 his disappearance, were the relations between Father and Son 248 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:43,200 very friendly. His grace is never very friendly 249 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,000 with anyone. He is completely immersed in 250 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,800 large public questions, and is rather inaccessible to all 251 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,700 ordinary emotions, but he was always kind to the boy in his 252 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:58,000 own way, but the sympathies of the latter with the mother. 253 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:05,100 Yes, did he say so? No, the Juke then. 254 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,600 Good heaven. Know then, how could, you know? 255 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:13,100 I have had some confidential talks with? 256 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:16,400 Mr. James Wilder, his grace, his secretary. 257 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:19,800 It was, he who gave me the information about Lord saltire 258 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,800 as feelings. I see, by the way that last 259 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,400 letter of the Dukes or was it found in the boys room after he 260 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,300 was gone. No, he had taken it with him. 261 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:34,600 I think mr. Holmes. 262 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,200 It is time that we were leaving for Houston. 263 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,200 I will order a four-wheeler in a quarter of an hour. 264 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,700 We shall be at your service. If you are, telegraphing home is 265 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:47,000 to Huxtable. It would be well, to allow the 266 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 people in your neighborhood to imagine that the inquiry is 267 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,200 still going on in Liverpool. Or whatever else that red 268 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,000 herring LED, your pack. In the meantime. 269 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,300 I will do a little quiet work at your own doors and perhaps the 270 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:05,200 scent is not so cold, but that to Old hounds like Watson and 271 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:10,700 myself may get a sniff of it. That evening found us in the 272 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:12,900 cold. Bracing atmosphere of the Peak 273 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:16,099 Country in which dr. Huxtables famous school is 274 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:18,900 situated. It was already dark when we 275 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:21,700 reached it. The card was lying on the hall 276 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:25,400 table and the but low whispered something, to his master who 277 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,700 turned to us with agitation, in every heavy feature. 278 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,600 The Juke is here said he the Juke and mr. 279 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,800 Wilder are in the study come gentlemen, and I will introduce 280 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,900 you. I was of course, familiar with 281 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:44,100 the pictures of the famous Statesman, but the man himself 282 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:46,300 was very different from his representation. 283 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,900 He was a tall and stately person, scrupulously dressed 284 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:54,800 with a drawn thin face and a nose which was grotesquely 285 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,900 curved and longed, his complexion was of a dead Pala 286 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:02,700 which was more startling by contrast with a long dwindling 287 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:06,800 beard of vivid red which flowed down over his white waistcoat 288 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,100 with his watch-chain gleaming through. 289 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:14,300 Fringe such was the stately presence who looked stonily at 290 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:18,500 us from the center of dr. Huxtables hearthrug beside him, 291 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:19,700 stood. A very young man. 292 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:23,200 Whom I understood to be wilder, the private secretary. 293 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,600 He was small nervous alert with intelligent liked blue eyes, and 294 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,000 mobile features. It was he who at once in an 295 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,700 incisive and positive tone opened the conversation. 296 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,800 I called this morning. Dr. Huxtable too late to prevent 297 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,000 you from starting to London. I learned that your object was 298 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,200 to invite mr. Sherlock Holmes, to undertake 299 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,400 the conduct of this case. His grace is surprised. 300 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,400 Dr. Huxtable that you should have taken such a step without 301 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,900 consulting him. When I learned that, the police 302 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:01,700 had failed, his grace is by no means convinced that the police 303 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:05,300 have failed, but surely mr. Wilder. 304 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,500 You are, well, aware doctor Huxtable that his grace is, 305 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:12,700 particularly anxious to avoid all public Scandal. 306 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,600 He prefers to take as few people as possible into his confidence. 307 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:22,300 The matter can be easily, remedied said, the browbeaten 308 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:25,300 doctor. Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return 309 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,300 to London by the morning. Train. 310 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,800 Hardly that doctor hardly that said, Holmes in his blandest 311 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,100 voice. This Northern Air is 312 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:38,900 invigorating and pleasant. So I propose to spend a few days 313 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:41,900 upon your mores and to occupy my mind, as best. 314 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:45,300 I met, whether I have the shelter of your roof, or the 315 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:47,800 village in is, of course for you to decide. 316 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,200 I could see that the unfortunate doctor was in the last stage of 317 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,300 indecision from, which he was rescued by the Deep sonorous 318 00:19:56,300 --> 00:20:00,400 voice of the red-bearded Duke, which boomed out like a dinner 319 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,300 gong. I agree with mr. 320 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:07,400 Wilder doctor Huxtable that you would have done wisely to 321 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,900 consult me. But since mr. 322 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,900 Holmes has already been taken into your confidence. 323 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,200 It would indeed be absurd that we should not Avail ourselves of 324 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,700 his services. Has far from going to the in mr. 325 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,400 Holmes. I should be pleased if you would 326 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,000 come and stay with me at holdernesse Hall. 327 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,900 I thank your grace for the purposes of my investigation. 328 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:34,300 I think that it would be wiser for me to remain at the scene of 329 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:38,200 the mystery just as you like, mr. 330 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,000 Holmes, any information, which mr. 331 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,200 Wilder or I can give you is of course at your disposal. 332 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:49,600 It will probably be necessary for me to see you at the hall 333 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,300 said Holmes. I would only ask you now. 334 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:56,000 So whether you have formed any explanation in your own mind as 335 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,800 to the mysterious disappearance of your son. 336 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,100 No, sir. I have not. 337 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,800 Excuse me, if I allude to that, which is painful to you, but I 338 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,000 have no alternative. Do you think that the duchess 339 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,700 had anything to do with the matter? 340 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,600 the great Minister showed perceptible, hesitation I do not 341 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,000 think so. He said at last. 342 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:27,900 The other most obvious explanation is that the child 343 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:30,300 has been kidnapped for the purpose of levying. 344 00:21:30,300 --> 00:21:33,100 Ransom. You have not had any demand of 345 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:35,500 the sort. No, sir. 346 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:40,600 One more question your grace. I understand that you wrote to 347 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,200 your son upon the day when this incident occurred. 348 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:51,600 No, I wrote upon the day before. Exactly, but he received it on 349 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,700 that day. Yes. 350 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,900 Was there anything in your letter which might have 351 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:00,500 unbalanced him or induced him to take such a step? 352 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,300 No, sir. Certainly. 353 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:05,900 Not. Did you post that letter 354 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:09,000 yourself? The nobleman's reply was 355 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,900 interrupted by his secretary who broke in was some heat. 356 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:17,300 His grace is not in the habit of posting letters himself said he, 357 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:20,700 this letter was laid with others upon the study table and I 358 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:25,500 myself put them in the post bag. You are sure this one was among 359 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:27,700 them. Yes, I observed it. 360 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,500 How many letters did your grace right? 361 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:33,900 That day? Twenty or Thirty. 362 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:38,100 I have a large correspondence, but surely this is somewhat. 363 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:44,500 Irrelevant not entirely said Holmes for my own part that you 364 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:47,900 continued. I have advised the police to 365 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,500 turn their attention to the south of France. 366 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,500 I have already said that. I do not believe that the 367 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:57,400 duchess would encourage so, monstrous and action, but the 368 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,100 lad had the most wrongheaded opinions and it is possible that 369 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,900 May have fled to her aided and abetted by this German. 370 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,500 I think dr. Huxtable that we will now return 371 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:15,000 to the hall. I could see that there were 372 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,400 other questions which homes would have wished to put but the 373 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,700 nobleman's abrupt manner showed that the interview was at an 374 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:24,200 end. It was evident that to his 375 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,300 intensely aristocratic nature this discussion of his intimate 376 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:30,500 family affairs. With a stranger was most 377 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,100 abhorrent and that, he feared lest every fresh question. 378 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:37,600 Would throw a fiercer light into the discreetly shadowed corners 379 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,900 of his do call history. When the nobleman and his 380 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:45,800 secretary left, my friend, flung himself, at once with 381 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,800 characteristic, eagerness into the investigation. 382 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,800 The boys chamber was carefully, examined and yielded nothing. 383 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,800 Save the absolute conviction, that it was only through the 384 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,500 window that he could have escaped. 385 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:02,700 The German Masters room and effects gave no further clue. 386 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:07,500 In his case, a trailer of IV had given way under his weight and 387 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:10,600 we saw by the light of a lantern the mark on the lawn where his 388 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,300 heels had come down. That one didn't in the short 389 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:17,900 green grass was the only material witness left of this 390 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:22,900 inexplicable nocturnal. 8 Sherlock, Holmes, left the house 391 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,700 alone and only returned after 11:00. 392 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,400 He had obtained, a large Ordnance map of the neighborhood 393 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,200 and this, he brought into my room where he laid it out on the 394 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,500 bed and having balanced a lamp in the middle of it. 395 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:40,000 He began to smoke over it and occasionally to point out 396 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,200 objects of Interest with the reeking Amber of his pipe. 397 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,700 Holmes map of the neighborhood of the school. 398 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,100 This case grows upon me, Watson said he there are decidedly some 399 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:56,200 points of interest in connection with it. 400 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:00,400 In this early stage. I want you to realize those 401 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,600 geographical features, which may have a good deal to do with our 402 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,500 investigation. Look at this map. 403 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,700 This dark square is The Priory school. 404 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,400 I'll put a pin in it. Now. 405 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:17,300 This line is the main road. You see that it runs East and 406 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:21,000 West past the school. And you see also that there is 407 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,500 no Side Road for a mile. Either way, if these two folk 408 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:32,800 passed away by Road, it was this road exactly by a singular and 409 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,000 happy chance. We are able to some extent to 410 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,900 check. What passed along this road 411 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:39,300 during the night. In question. 412 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,200 At this point, where my pipe is now resting, a County Constable 413 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:50,700 was on duty, from 12 to 6. It is as you Receive the first 414 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:55,000 Crossroad on the East side. This man declares that he was 415 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,500 not absent from his post for an instant and he is positive, that 416 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,900 neither boy nor man could have gone that way. 417 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:05,000 Unseen. I have spoken with his policeman 418 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 tonight and he appears to me to be a perfectly reliable person 419 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,300 that blocks. This end we have now to deal 420 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:15,900 with the other There is an in here. 421 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:19,000 The red ball, the landlady of which was ill. 422 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:24,600 She had sent to mackleton for a doctor, but he did not arrive 423 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,500 until morning being absent at another case. 424 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,600 The people at the end were alert all night, awaiting his coming 425 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,100 and one or other of them seems to have continually had an eye 426 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,000 upon the road. They declare that no one passed. 427 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,700 If their evidence is good. Then we are fortunate enough to 428 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:47,500 be able to block the west. And also, to be able to say that 429 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,700 the fugitives did not use the Too tall. 430 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:55,100 But the bicycle I objected quite. 431 00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:58,600 So we will come to the bicycle presently. 432 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,800 To continue our reasoning. If these people did not go by 433 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,000 the road. They must have traversed. 434 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,500 The country to the north of the house or to the south of the 435 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:14,100 house that is certain. Let us weigh the one against the 436 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:17,300 other. On the south of the house is, as 437 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,400 you perceive a large District of arable land. 438 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,000 Cut up into small Fields with stone walls, between them there. 439 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,200 I admit that a bicycle is impossible. 440 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,400 We can dismiss the idea. We turn to the country on the 441 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,400 North here. There, lies a Grove of trees 442 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,200 marked as the Ragged Shaw, and on the farther side stretches a 443 00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:42,400 great rolling, more lower Gilmore, extending the ten 444 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,400 miles, and sloping gradually upward here at one side of this 445 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,400 Wilderness is holdernesse, Hall, 10 miles by road, but only six 446 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,700 across the more. It is a peculiarly desolate 447 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:58,700 plain. A few more Farmers have small 448 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:02,300 Holdings where they reassured. When cattle accept these the 449 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,000 plumber and the curl, you are the only inhabitants until you 450 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,900 come to the Chesterfield High Road. 451 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,600 There is a church there. You see if you cottages and an 452 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,800 in beyond that the hills become precipitous. 453 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,100 Surely. It is here to the north that our 454 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:21,800 Quest must lie. But the bicycle I persisted, 455 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:27,300 well, well said, Holmes impatiently a good cyclist. 456 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:31,000 Does not need a high road. The Moor is intersected with 457 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,400 paths and the moon was at the full. 458 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,500 Hello. What's this? 459 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,400 There was an agitated knock at the door and an instant 460 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,600 afterwards. Dr. Huxtable was in the room in 461 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,900 his hand. He held a blue Cricket cap with 462 00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:49,100 a white Chevron on the peak. At last, we have a clue. 463 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,500 He cried. Thank heaven at last. 464 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:56,100 We are on the dear boys, track. It is his cap. 465 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,300 Where was it? Found in the van of the gypsies 466 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,400 who camped on the more they left on Tuesday? 467 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:07,200 Today, the police Trace them down and examined their Caravan. 468 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:11,100 This was found. How do they account for it? 469 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,800 They shuffled and lied said that they found it on the more on 470 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,500 Tuesday morning. They know where he is. 471 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,300 The Rascals. Thank goodness. 472 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,800 They're all safe under lock and key. 473 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,400 Neither the fear of the law or the Dukes purse will certainly 474 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,100 get out of them all that they know. 475 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,400 So far so good said Holmes. When the doctor had last left 476 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,800 the room, it at least Bears out the theory that it is on the 477 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,000 side of the lower Gilmore that we must hope for results. 478 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 The police have really done. Nothing locally saved, the 479 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,500 arrest of those gypsies. Look here. 480 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,900 Watson. There's a Watercourse across the 481 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,100 more. You see it, marked here in the 482 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,700 map in some parts. It widens into a morass. 483 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:59,000 This is particularly. So in the region between 484 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,400 holdernesse Hall in the school, it is vain to look elsewhere for 485 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,400 tracks in this dry weather. But at that point, there is 486 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,800 certainly a chance of some record being left. 487 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,200 I will call you early tomorrow morning and you and I will try 488 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,700 if we can throw some light upon the mystery. 489 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,700 The day was just breaking. When I woke to find the long 490 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,000 thin form of homes by my bedside. 491 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,300 He was fully dressed and had apparently already been out. 492 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,100 I have done the lawn and the bicycle shed said he, I have 493 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,300 also had a rumble through the Ragged Shaw. 494 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,900 Now, Watson, there is Coco ready in the Next Room. 495 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,200 I must beg you to hurry for. We have a great day before us 496 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:45,200 his eyes Shone, and his cheek was flushed with the 497 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,100 exhilaration of the master Workman. 498 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,100 Who sees his work, Li ready before him a very different 499 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,000 homes. This active alert man from the 500 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,100 introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. 501 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,800 I felt as I looked upon that Supple figure alive with nervous 502 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800 energy that it was indeed a strenuous day. 503 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,500 That awaited us. And yet it opened in the 504 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,800 blackest disappointment, with high hopes. 505 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,000 We struck across the PT russet, more intersected with a thousand 506 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,900 sheep paths. Until we came to the broad light 507 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:22,700 green belt, which marked a morass between us and 508 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,700 holdernesse. Certainly if the lad had gone 509 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:29,600 home would he must have passed this and he could not pass it 510 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,900 without leaving his traces. But no sign of him or the German 511 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,000 could be seen with a darkening face. 512 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,700 My friends Strode along the margin, eagerly, observant of 513 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:44,800 every muddy stain, upon the mossy surface sheep marks, there 514 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,400 were in profusion and at one place some miles down. 515 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,800 Cows had left their tracks. Nothing more. 516 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:56,300 Check number one said, Holmes looking gloomily over the 517 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:57,900 rolling. Expanse of the Moor. 518 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:02,800 There is another morass Down Yonder and a narrow neck between 519 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,700 hello. Hello? 520 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,600 Hello. What have we here? 521 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,000 We had come on a small black ribbon of pathway in the middle 522 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,300 of it. Clearly marked on the sodden 523 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:20,500 soil was the track of a bicycle. Hoorah. 524 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,700 I cried we have it but Holmes was shaking his head and his 525 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:29,000 face was puzzled and expectant rather than joyous. 526 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:36,400 A bicycles certainly but not the bicycle said he, I am familiar 527 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,200 with 42 different Impressions left by tires. 528 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,400 This as you perceive is a Dunlop with a patch upon the outer 529 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:48,100 cover Heidegger's tires, were Palmer's leaving longitudinal 530 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,700 Stripes traveling. The mathematical master was sure 531 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,800 upon the point. Therefore it is not hiding as 532 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:59,300 track. The boys then possibly, if we 533 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,600 could prove a bicycle to have been in his possession, but 534 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,900 this, we have utterly failed to do this track. 535 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:09,300 As you perceive was made by a rider who is going from the 536 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:12,900 direction of the school. Or towards it. 537 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,100 No. No, my dear Watson, the more 538 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:19,600 deeply sunk impression is of course the hind wheel upon which 539 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,200 the weight rests, you perceive several places where it has 540 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,300 passed across and obliterated. The more shallow Mark of the 541 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:29,800 front one. It was undoubtedly heading away 542 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,200 from the school. It may or may not be connected 543 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,000 with our inquiry and but we all follow it backwards before we 544 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,300 get any further. We did so and at the end of a 545 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,600 few hundred yards lost the tracks as we emerge from the 546 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,100 boggy portion of the Moor. Following the path backwards. 547 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:52,900 We picked out another spot where a spring trickled across it 548 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,000 here. Once again, was the mark of the 549 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,600 bicycle do nearly obliterated by the Hooves of cows. 550 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,800 After that. There was no sign, but the path 551 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,400 ran right down into ragged Shaw, the wood, which backed onto the 552 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,400 school from this wood. The cycle must have emerged, 553 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,900 Holmes, sat down on a boulder and rested his chin in his 554 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,699 hands. I had smoked two cigarettes 555 00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:18,199 before him. Moved. 556 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,800 Well, well said he at last, it is, of course, possible that a 557 00:34:23,808 --> 00:34:27,800 cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to 558 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,000 leave the unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of 559 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,600 such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business 560 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,800 with. We will leave this question 561 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,400 undecided and hark back to our morass. 562 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,500 Again, for we have left, a good deal unexplored. 563 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,100 We continued our systematic survey of the age of the 564 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,100 Southern portion of the Moor and soon. 565 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:54,500 Our perseverance was gloriously rewarded right across the lower 566 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:56,100 part of the bog. Layer. 567 00:34:56,100 --> 00:35:01,400 Miry path Holmes, gave a cry of delight as he approached it, an 568 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,700 impression like a fine bundle of telegraph. 569 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:08,200 Wires ran down the center of it. It was the Palmer tires. 570 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,200 Here is hair Heidegger. Sure enough cried Holmes 571 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,400 exultantly my Seems to have been pretty sound Watson. 572 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,400 I congratulate you. But we have a long way. 573 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,900 Still to go. Kindly walk clear of the path. 574 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,600 Now. Let us follow the trail. 575 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,500 I fear that it will not lead very far. 576 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,200 We found, however, as we advance that this portion of the Moor is 577 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,000 intersected with soft patches and though we frequently lost 578 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,500 sight of the track. We always succeeded in picking 579 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:41,500 it up. Once more. 580 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,900 Do You observe said, Holmes that the rider is now, undoubtedly 581 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:50,100 forcing the pace. There can be no doubt of it. 582 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:53,100 Look at this impression where you get both tires. 583 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:56,000 Clear. The one is as deep as the other. 584 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,400 That can only mean that the rider is throwing his weight 585 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,900 onto the handlebar, as a man does when he is sprinting by 586 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,100 jove. He's had a fall. 587 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,300 There was a broad irregular smudge covering some yards of 588 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:13,500 the track. Then there were a few footmarks 589 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,300 and the tire reappeared once more. 590 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:21,100 A sideslip, I suggested Holmes held up a crumpled branch of 591 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,600 flowering. Gorse to my horror. 592 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,800 I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dad with 593 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:32,400 Crimson on the past two and among the Heather were dark 594 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:39,400 stains of clotted. Blood Bad said Holmes bad stand 595 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,100 clear Watson, not an unnecessary footstep. 596 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,300 What do I read here? He fell wounded. 597 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:52,800 He stood up, he remounted, he proceeded, but there is no other 598 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,700 track cattle on this side path. He was surely not gored by a 599 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:02,300 bull impossible, but I see no traces of anyone else. 600 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:06,300 We must push on Watson. Surely with stains as well as 601 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,800 the track to guide us. He cannot Escape us now. 602 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,200 Our search was not a very long one. 603 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:16,400 The tracks of the tire began to curve fantastically upon the wet 604 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:22,000 and Shining path suddenly as I looked ahead, The Gleam of metal 605 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,100 caught my eye from amid the thick gorse bushes out of them. 606 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,800 We dragged a bicycle Palmer, tired, one pedal bent and the 607 00:37:30,808 --> 00:37:34,400 whole front of it horribly smeared and slobbered with blood 608 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,400 on the other side of the bushes, a shoe was projecting. 609 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,900 We ran around and there lay the unfortunate Rider. 610 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,000 He was a tall man. Full bearded with spectacles one 611 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,700 glass of which have been knocked out. 612 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,000 The cause of his death was a frightful blow upon the head 613 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:56,400 which had crushed in part of his skull. 614 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,300 And he could have gone on after receiving, such an injury said, 615 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,800 much for the vitality, and courage of the man. 616 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,700 He wore shoes, but no socks and is open coat disclosed a 617 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:08,900 nightshirt beneath. It. 618 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,900 It was undoubtedly, the German master. 619 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,100 Holmes turned the body over reverently and examined it with 620 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:20,200 great attention. He then sat in deep thought for 621 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,800 a time and I could see by his ruffled brow that this Grim 622 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,000 Discovery had not in his opinion and vans does much in our 623 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,600 inquiry. It is a little difficult to know 624 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,100 what to do. What sun' said he at last. 625 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:39,900 My own inclinations are to push this inquiry on for we have 626 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,000 already lost so much time that we cannot afford to waste 627 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,900 another hour. On the other hand. 628 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,200 We are bound to inform the police of the discovery. 629 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,400 And to see that, this poor fellow's body is looked after. 630 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,400 I could take a note back, but I need your company and 631 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,700 assistance. Wait, a bit. 632 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:02,500 There is a fellow cutting. Peat up yonder. 633 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,800 Bring him over here and he will guide the police. 634 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,700 End of part, 1 of The Adventure of The Priory School.