1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,000 Adventure for in the return of Sherlock, Holmes by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,600 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:12,700 the public domain. Adventure for the adventure of 4 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:19,100 the solitary cyclist. From the years 1894 to 1901 5 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:21,900 inclusive. Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very 6 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:25,100 busy man. It is safe to say that there was 7 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:29,200 no public case of any difficulty in which she was not consulted, 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,700 during those eight years and there were hundreds of private 9 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:34,800 cases. Some of them at the most 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,300 intricate and extraordinary character in which he played a 11 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:43,300 prominent part, many startling successes and a few unavoidable 12 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:47,100 failures where the outcome of this long period of Newest work, 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,500 as I've preserved very full notes of all these cases and was 14 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:53,900 myself personally engaged in many of them. 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,100 It may be imagined that it is no easy task to know, which I 16 00:00:58,108 --> 00:01:00,200 should select to lay before the public. 17 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,300 I shall however, preserve my former Rule and give the 18 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:08,400 preference to those cases which derive their interest, not So 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,600 Much from the brutality of the crime as from the Ingenuity and 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,500 dramatic quality of the solution. 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,700 For this reason, I will now lay before the reader, the facts 22 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:23,600 connected with Miss, Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,500 charlington and the Curious sequel of our investigation 24 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:30,400 which culminated in unexpected tragedy. 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,400 It is true that the circumstance did not admit of any striking 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,700 illustration of those powers for which my friend was famous, but 27 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:43,400 there were some points about the case which made it stand out in 28 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,900 those long, records of crime from which I, The material for 29 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:51,500 these little narratives. On referring to my notebook for 30 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:55,600 the year. 1895. I find that it was upon 31 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:57,500 Saturday. The 23rd of April. 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,400 That we first heard of Miss Violet Smith. 33 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:05,700 Her visit was I remember extremely unwelcome two homes 34 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,600 for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and 35 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,400 complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,000 which John Vincent Harden. The well-known. 37 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,100 Tobacco millionaire had been subjected, my friend, who loved 38 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:23,400 Above All Things, precision and concentration of thought 39 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:26,800 resented anything, which distract his attention from the 40 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,000 matter in hand. And yet without a harshness 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,800 which was foreign to his nature. It was impossible to refuse to 42 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,300 listen to the story of The Young and Beautiful Woman tall 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,500 graceful and queenly, who presented herself at Baker 44 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,700 Street late in the evening and implored, his assistance and 45 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:51,500 advice. It was vain to urge that his 46 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:55,500 time was already fully occupied for the young lady had come with 47 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:57,400 a determination to tell her story. 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,600 And it was evident that nothing short of force could get her out 49 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,800 of the room until she had done. So with a resigned air and a 50 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,700 somewhat weary smile, homes begged to beautiful Intruder to 51 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,100 take a seat and to inform us what it was that was troubling 52 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:16,300 her. At least it cannot be your 53 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:19,400 health. So he has his Keen eyes darted 54 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,100 over her. So, Ardent a bicyclist must be 55 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:26,700 full of energy. She glanced down in surprise at 56 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:30,200 her own feet and I observed, a slight ruffling of the side of 57 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,400 the sole caused by the friction of the edge of the pedal. 58 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:36,500 Yes. I bicycle, a good deal. 59 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:39,400 Mr. Holmes and that has something to do with my visit to 60 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,800 you today. My friend took the ladies 61 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,600 ungloved hand and examined it with his clothes and attention, 62 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:49,600 and has little sentiment as a scientist would show to a 63 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,200 specimen. You will, excuse me. 64 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,200 I'm sure it is. My business said he is, he 65 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,000 dropped it? I nearly fell into the error of 66 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,100 supposing that you were type rating. 67 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,700 Of course, it is obvious that it is music. 68 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,500 You observe the spatulate finger-ends Watson, which is 69 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:12,300 common to both professions. There is a spirituality about 70 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,400 the face. However, she gently turned it 71 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,700 towards the light, which the typewriter does not generate. 72 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:23,900 This lady is a musician. Yes. 73 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:27,800 Mr. Holmes. I teach music in the country. 74 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,700 I presume from your complexion. Yes, sir. 75 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:35,900 Near Farnham, on the borders of Surrey, a beautiful neighborhood 76 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:39,000 and full of the most interesting associations. 77 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:42,900 You remember Watson that it was near there that we took Archie 78 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:47,300 Stanford, the forger now. Miss Violet, what has happened 79 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,000 to you near Farnham on the borders of Surrey. 80 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:54,800 The young lady with great clearness and composure made the 81 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:59,500 following curious statement. My father is dead. 82 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,900 Mr. Holmes. He was James Smith who conducted 83 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:06,500 the orchestra at the old Imperial theater, my mother and 84 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,900 I were left without a relation in the world, except one, Uncle 85 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:15,000 Ralph Smith who went to Africa 25 years ago, and we've never 86 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,500 had a word from him since when father died. 87 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:22,900 We were left very poor, but one day we were told that there was 88 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,500 an advertisement in the times inquiring for our whereabouts. 89 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,100 You can imagine how excited we were for. 90 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:32,600 We saw that. Someone had left us a fortune. 91 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,200 We went at once to the lawyer whose name was given in the 92 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,500 paper. There. 93 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:40,900 We met two gentlemen, mr. Carruthers and mr. 94 00:05:40,900 --> 00:05:43,900 Woodley, who were home on a visit from South Africa. 95 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,400 They said that, my uncle was a friend of theirs that he had 96 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,900 died some months before, in great, poverty in Johannesburg, 97 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,600 and that he had asked him with his last breath to hunt up his 98 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,200 relations and See that they were in, no want. 99 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:03,100 It seems strange to us, that Uncle Ralph, who took no notice 100 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:05,200 of his when he was alive. Should be. 101 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,600 So careful to look after us when he was dead. 102 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:11,100 But mr. Carruthers explained that the 103 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,900 reason was that my uncle had just heard of the death of his 104 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:17,100 brother and so felt responsible for Our Fate. 105 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,300 Excuse me, said, Holmes. When was this interview last 106 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:27,100 December, 4 months ago. Pray proceed? 107 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,900 Mr. Woodley seemed to me to be a most odious person. 108 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:34,500 He was forever. Making eyes at me. 109 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Workhorse puffy, faced, red, mustache young man, with his 110 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,800 hair plastered, down on each side of his forehead. 111 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:46,100 I thought that he was perfectly hateful and I was sure that 112 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:48,800 Cyril would not wish me to know such a person. 113 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,500 Oh Cyril, is his name said Holmes smiling the young lady, 114 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:56,700 blushed and laughed. Yes. 115 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:58,000 Mr. Holmes. See. 116 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,400 Morton an electrical engineer and we hope to be married at the 117 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,500 end of the summer. Dear me. 118 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:09,800 How did I get talking about him? What I wish to say was that mr. 119 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,800 Woodley was perfectly odious, but that mr. 120 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,600 Carruthers, who was a much older man was more agreeable. 121 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:22,000 He was a dark sallow clean-shaven, silent person, but 122 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,500 he had polite manners and a pleasant smile. 123 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,000 He inquired how we were left and on fine. 124 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:31,200 Being that we were very poor. He suggested that I should come 125 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,600 and teach music to his only daughter age 10. 126 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,800 I said that I did not like to leave my mother on which he 127 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,700 suggested that I should go home to her every weekend and he 128 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,000 offered me a hundred a year, which was certainly Splendid 129 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,600 pay. So it ended by my accepting and 130 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,900 I went down to Chiltern. Grange about six miles from 131 00:07:53,900 --> 00:07:57,500 Farnham. Mr. Carruthers was a widower but 132 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:59,400 he had engaged a lady housekeeper. 133 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,400 A very respectable elderly person called. 134 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,300 Mrs. Dixon to look after his establishment. 135 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,700 The child was a deer and everything promised. 136 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,100 Well, mr. Carruthers was very kind and 137 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:16,900 very Musical and we had most Pleasant evenings together every 138 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:19,500 weekend. I went home to my mother in 139 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:23,500 town. The first floor in my happiness, 140 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:25,900 was the arrival of the red moustached. 141 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:29,100 Mr. Woodley. He came for a visit of a week 142 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,100 and oh, it seems three months to me. 143 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:36,500 He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else. 144 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:39,200 But to me something infinitely worse. 145 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:44,200 He made odious love to me. Boasted of his wealth said that 146 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,700 if I married him, I could have the finest diamonds in London. 147 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,100 And finally, when I would have nothing to do with him. 148 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:53,800 He sees me in his arms. One day after dinner. 149 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,300 He was hideously strong and swore that he would not let me 150 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:01,300 go until I had kissed him. Mr. Carruthers, came in and tore 151 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:03,700 him from me on which he turned upon his own. 152 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:06,800 Host knocking him down and cutting his face open. 153 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,900 That was the end of his visit as you can imagine. 154 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:13,400 Mr. Carruthers. Apologize. 155 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,800 To me next day and assured me that I should never be exposed 156 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,300 to such an insult again. I have not seen mr. 157 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,300 Woodley since. And now mr. 158 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:28,100 Holmes, I come at last to the special thing, which has caused 159 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:32,600 me to ask her advice today. You must know that every 160 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,100 Saturday afternoon. I ride on my bicycle to find him 161 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:41,700 station in order to get the 1222 to Town the road from Chilton 162 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:43,200 Granger's. A lonely one. 163 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 And at one spot. It is particularly. 164 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,900 So for it, lies for over a mile between charlington Heath upon 165 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:53,900 one side, and the woods, which lie around charlington Hall upon 166 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,300 the other. You could not find a more lonely 167 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,000 tract of road anywhere, and it is quite rare. 168 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,300 To meet so much as a cart or a peasant until you reach the high 169 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,900 road near Crooks Berryhill two weeks ago. 170 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,300 I was passing this place when I chance to look over my shoulder 171 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:19,200 and about 200 yards behind me. I saw a man also on a bicycle. 172 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:24,100 He seemed to be a middle-aged man, with a short dark beard. 173 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,300 I looked back before I reached Farnum, but the man was gone, so 174 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:32,700 I thought no more about it. But you can imagine how 175 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:34,600 surprised I was. Mr. Holmes. 176 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:39,800 When on my return on the Monday, I saw the same man on the same 177 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,100 stretch of road. My astonishment was increased 178 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,900 when the incident occurred again exactly, as before on the 179 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:52,800 following Saturday and Monday, he always kept his distance and 180 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,600 he did not molest me in any way, but still it certainly was very 181 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,200 odd. I mentioned it to mr. 182 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,700 Carruthers, who seemed interested in what I said, and 183 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,000 told me that he had ordered a horse and trap so that in 184 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,500 future, I should not pass over those lonely roads without some 185 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:14,800 companion. The whole sand trap were to have 186 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,100 come this week, but for some reason they were not delivered. 187 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:23,700 And again, I had to cycle to the station that was this morning. 188 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,800 You can sink that I looked out when I came to charlington Heath 189 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:32,800 and there. Sure enough was the man exactly 190 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,800 as he had been the two weeks before he always kept so far 191 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:41,000 from me that I could not clearly see his face, but it was 192 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,300 certainly Someone whom I did not know. 193 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,100 He was dressed in a dark suit with a cloth cap. 194 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,500 The only thing about his face that I could clearly see was his 195 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:57,300 dark beard. Today I was not alarmed but I 196 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:01,200 was filled with curiosity and I determined to find out who he 197 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,900 was and what he wanted. I slowed down my machine, but he 198 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:12,000 slowed down his then I stopped altogether, but he stopped also, 199 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:16,300 then I laid a trap for him. There is a sharp turning of the 200 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,700 road. And I pedaled very quickly round 201 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:20,700 this and then I stopped and waited. 202 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,800 I expected him to shoot around and pass. 203 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,400 Before he could stop but he never appeared. 204 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:30,500 Then I went back and looked around the corner. 205 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,100 I could see a mile of road, but he was not on it to make it the 206 00:12:35,108 --> 00:12:38,200 more extraordinary. There was no side road at this 207 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,000 point down, which he could have gone. 208 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:43,400 Holmes chuckled and rubbed his hands. 209 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:47,800 This case, certainly presents some features of its own said, 210 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,800 he how much time elapsed between you're turning the corner and 211 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:57,000 your discovery that the road was clear two or three minutes. 212 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:01,500 Then he could not have retreated down the road and you say that 213 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:06,400 there are no side roads, none. Then he certainly took a 214 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,400 footpath on one side or the other. 215 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,600 It could not have been on the side of the heath or I should 216 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:17,100 have seen him. So by the process of exclusion, 217 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,800 we arrived at the fact that he made his way toward charlington 218 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,500 Hall, which as I understand is situated in its own grounds on 219 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:28,600 one side of the road anything else. 220 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,200 Nothing. Mr. Holmes say that I was so 221 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,000 perplexed that I felt I should not be happy until I had seen 222 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,500 you and had your advice. Home sat in silence, for some 223 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:44,000 little time. Where is the gentleman to whom 224 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,200 you are engaged? He asked at last. 225 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,300 He is in the middle and electrical company at Coventry. 226 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,700 He would not pay you a surprise visit. 227 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,400 Oh, mr. Holmes, as if I should not know 228 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,600 him. Have you had any other admirers 229 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:06,600 several before? I knew Cyril and since there was 230 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,600 this Dreadful man would lie, if you can call him an admirer. 231 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,000 No one else. I'll Fair client seemed a little 232 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,300 confused. Who was he asked, Holmes? 233 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:24,900 Oh, it may be a mere fancy of mine, but it had seemed to me 234 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,500 sometimes that my employer. Mr. Carruthers takes a great 235 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:32,900 deal of interest in me. We are thrown rather together. 236 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,700 I play his accompaniments in the evening. 237 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:40,300 He has never said anything. He is a perfect gentleman, but a 238 00:14:40,308 --> 00:14:44,900 girl always knows. Ha Holmes looked grave. 239 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:50,600 What does he do for a living? He is a rich, man, no carriages 240 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,200 or horses. Well, at least he is fairly 241 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,800 well-to-do, but he goes into the city two or three times a week. 242 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:01,400 He is deeply interested in South African gold shares. 243 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,500 You will let me know any fresh development Miss Smith. 244 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:09,500 I'm very busy just now, but I will find time to make some 245 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:12,800 inquiries into your case. In the meantime. 246 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,400 Take no step without letting me know. 247 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,500 Goodbye. And I trust that we shall have 248 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:23,300 nothing but good news from you. It is part of the settled order 249 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,800 of nature that such a girl should have followers, said, 250 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,000 Holmes. He pulled out his meditative 251 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,500 pipe, but for choice, not on bicycles in. 252 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:36,200 Only country roads, some secretive lover beyond all 253 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,900 doubt, but there are curious and suggestive details about the 254 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:43,800 case Watson that he should appear only at that point. 255 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:48,500 Exactly. Our first effort must be to find 256 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,900 who are the tenants of charlington Hall. 257 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,300 Then again, how about the connection between Carruthers 258 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:58,500 and Woodley since they appear to be men of such a different type? 259 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,500 How can they both to be so Keen upon looking up Ralph Smith? 260 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:07,500 Myths relations one more Point, what sort of a menage is it 261 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:10,800 which pays double the market price for a governess, but does 262 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:15,600 not keep a horse, although six miles from the station, Todd, 263 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:22,900 Watson, very odd, you go down. No, my dear fellow you will go 264 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:27,300 down this, maybe some trifling intrigued, and I cannot break my 265 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,600 other important research for the sake of it. 266 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,500 On Monday. You will arrive early at Farnum. 267 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,500 You will conceal yourself near charlington Heath, you will 268 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,300 observe these facts for yourself and act as your own judgment 269 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:43,700 advises. Then having inquired as to the 270 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:46,800 occupants of the hall. You'll come back to me and 271 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,300 report and now Watson not another word. 272 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:53,300 Of the matter until we have a few solid Stepping Stones on 273 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:55,800 which we may hope to get across to our solution. 274 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,800 We had ascertained from the lady as she went down upon the Monday 275 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,500 by the train, which leaves Waterloo at 950. 276 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:09,000 So I started early and caught the 913 at Farnum station. 277 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:12,300 I had no difficulty in being directed to charlington Heath. 278 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,400 It was impossible to mistake the scene of the young lady's 279 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,800 adventure for the road runs between the open Heath on one 280 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,099 side and an old yew hedge upon the other surrounding a Park, 281 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:25,500 which is studied with magnificent trees. 282 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,500 There was a main gateway of a lichen, studied Stone. 283 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:33,300 Each side, pillar surmounted by moldering heraldic emblems. 284 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,900 But besides this Central carriage-drive, I observed 285 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:41,100 several points where there were gaps in the Hedge and paths. 286 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:44,500 Leading through them. The house was invisible from the 287 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:48,400 road, but the surroundings all spoke of Gloom and decay. 288 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,900 The heath was covered with golden patches of flowering 289 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:56,600 gorse gleaming, magnificently in the light of the bright spring 290 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,800 Sunshine behind one of these clumps. 291 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,700 I took up my position. So as to command both, the 292 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:06,600 Gateway of the hall and a long stretch of the road upon either 293 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,900 side. It had been deserted when I left 294 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,900 it, but now I saw a cyclist riding down it from the opposite 295 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:15,800 direction to that in which I had come. 296 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,000 He was clad in a dark suit and I saw that. 297 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,900 He had a black beard on reaching the end of the charlington 298 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:26,900 grounds. He sprang from his machine and 299 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:29,600 let it through a gap in the Hedge disappearing. 300 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:35,200 From my view, a quarter of an hour passed and then a second 301 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,700 cyclist appeared this time. It was the young lady coming 302 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,000 from the station. I saw her. 303 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,800 Look about her as she came to the charlington Hedge, an 304 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,300 instant later the Emerged from his hiding place sprang upon his 305 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:54,300 cycle and followed her. In all the broad landscape. 306 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,200 Those were the only moving figures the graceful girl, 307 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,200 sitting very straight upon her machine. 308 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,900 And The Man Behind her bending low over his handlebar with a 309 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:06,900 curiously 30th, suggestion in every movement. 310 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,500 She looked back at him and slowed, her Pace. 311 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:17,600 He slowed, also, she stopped. He at one stop to keeping 200 312 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,400 yards behind her. The Next Movement was as 313 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,900 unexpected as it was Spirited. She suddenly whisked her Wheels 314 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:28,200 Round And dashed straight at him. 315 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,100 He was as quick as she however and darted off in Desperate 316 00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:35,600 flight presently. She came back up the road again, 317 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:39,300 her head halter lie in the are not deigning to take any 318 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:41,600 further, notice of her silent attendant. 319 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,900 He had turned also and still kept his distance until the 320 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:48,200 curve of the road, hit them from my sight. 321 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:53,200 I remained in my Hiding Place and it was well at I did. 322 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,100 So for presently, the man reappeared cycling. 323 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,600 Slowly back. He turned in at the hall Gates 324 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,000 and dismounted from his machine for some minutes. 325 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,200 I could see him standing among the trees. 326 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,500 His hands were raised and he seemed to be settling his 327 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:13,200 necktie. Then he mounted his cycle and 328 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,900 rode away from me down the drive towards the hall. 329 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,900 I ran across the heath and peered through the trees far 330 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:23,400 away. I could catch glimpses of the 331 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,600 old gray building with its bristling chuder chimneys, but 332 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,300 the drive ran through a dense Shrubbery and I saw no more of 333 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:35,700 my man. However, it seemed to me that I 334 00:20:35,708 --> 00:20:39,300 had done a fairly good mornings work, and I walked back in High 335 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:42,200 Spirits to Farnum the local house. 336 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,700 Agent could tell me nothing about charlington Hall and 337 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:49,500 referred me to a well known firm in Pall, Mall there. 338 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:52,700 I halted on my way home and met with courtesy from the 339 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,800 representative. No, I could not have charlington 340 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,900 hall for the summer. I was just too late. 341 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,400 It had been let about a month ago. 342 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,200 Mr. Williamson was the name of the tenant. 343 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:07,900 He was a respectable elderly gentleman. 344 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,600 The polite agent was afraid. He could say no more as the 345 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,600 Affairs of his clients were not matters, which he could discuss. 346 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,000 Mr. Sherlock Holmes listened with attention to the long 347 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,300 report, which I was able to present to him that evening, but 348 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,700 it did not elicit that word of Kurt praise, which I had hoped 349 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:29,500 for and should have valued on the contrary. 350 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:33,400 His austere face was even more severe than usual. 351 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:37,600 As he commented upon the things that I had done and the things 352 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,200 that I had not. You're hiding place. 353 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,400 My dear Watson was very faulty. You should have been behind the 354 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,900 Hedge, then you would have had a close view of this interesting 355 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:51,100 person. As it is. 356 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,500 He was some hundreds of yards away and can tell me even less 357 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,800 than Miss Smith. She thinks she does not know the 358 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,000 man. I am convinced. 359 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,400 She does why? Otherwise should he be so 360 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,200 desperately anxious, that she should not get so near him as to 361 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,100 see his features? You Beam is bending over the 362 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:15,200 handlebar concealment again. You see, you really have done 363 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,700 remarkably badly. He returns to the house, and you 364 00:22:18,708 --> 00:22:22,400 want to find out who he is. You come to a London house 365 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,800 agent. What should I have done? 366 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,300 I cried with some heat gone to the nearest public house. 367 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:32,200 That is a center of country gossip. 368 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,400 They would have told you every name from The Master to the 369 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,800 scullery maid Williamson. It contains nothing to my mind. 370 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:43,800 Mind, if he is an elderly man, he is not this active cyclist 371 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,000 who Sprint's away from that young lady's, athletic Pursuit. 372 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,600 What are we gain for your Expedition? 373 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,700 The knowledge that the girls stories, true. 374 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,100 I never doubted it, but there is a connection between the cyclist 375 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:59,800 and the hall. I never doubted that. 376 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,200 Either that, the hall is tenanted by Williamson. 377 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,800 Who's the better for that? Well, well, my dear sir don't 378 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,800 look so depressed. We can do little more until next 379 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,900 Saturday. And in the meantime, I may make 380 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:18,200 one or two inquiries myself. Next morning. 381 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,500 We had a note from Miss Smith, recounting shortly, and 382 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:25,600 accurately, the very incidents, which I had seen, But the pith 383 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,500 of the letter, lay in the PostScript. 384 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,100 I am sure that you will respect my confidence. 385 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:33,400 Mr. Holmes. When I tell you that my place 386 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,500 here has become difficult, owing. 387 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,600 To the fact that my employer has proposed marriage to me. 388 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,300 I am convinced that his feelings are most deep and most 389 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:47,100 honorable, at the same time. My promise is, of course, given 390 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:51,700 he took my refusal very seriously, but also very gently. 391 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,200 You can understand. However, that the situation is a 392 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,000 little strained. Our young friends seems to be 393 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,100 getting into deep Waters, said, Holmes thoughtfully. 394 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,800 As he finished the letter, the case certainly presents more 395 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,700 features of interest and more possibility of development than 396 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,800 I had originally thought. I should be none. 397 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,500 The worse for a quiet peaceful day in the country. 398 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,200 And I'm inclined to run down this afternoon and test one or 399 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:21,300 two theories, which I have formed. 400 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,400 Holmes is quiet day in the country, had a singular 401 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,700 termination for. He arrived at Baker Street late 402 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,500 in the evening with a cut lip and a discolored lump upon his 403 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:35,000 forehead. Besides a general air of 404 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,200 dissipation which would have made his own person, the fitting 405 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,500 object of a Scotland Yard investigation. 406 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,300 He was immensely tickled by his own adventures and laughed 407 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:50,400 heartily as he recounted them. I get so little active exercise 408 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,700 that it is always a treat said he you are aware that I have 409 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,900 some Proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing 410 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,200 occasionally. It is of service today. 411 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,600 For example, I should have come to very ignominious grief 412 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,600 without it. I begged him to tell me what has 413 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,900 occurred. I found that Country Pub, which 414 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:15,000 I had already recommended to your notice. 415 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,000 And there, I made my discreet inquiries. 416 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:22,000 I was in the bar and the garrulous landlord was giving me 417 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,300 all that. I wanted. 418 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,300 Williamson is a white bearded, man, and he lives alone with a 419 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:29,700 small staff of servants at the hall. 420 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:35,800 There is some rumor that he is or has been a clergyman but one 421 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,900 or two incidents of his short Residence at the hall. 422 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,000 Struck me as particularly an ecclesiastical. 423 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:47,200 I've already made some inquiries at a clerical agency and they 424 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,100 tell me that there was a man of that name in orders whose career 425 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:52,800 has been a singularly. Dark One. 426 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,100 The landlord further informed me that, there are usually weekend. 427 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,400 Visitors a warm lot, sir, at the hall. 428 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,500 Especially one gentleman with a red mustache. 429 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:09,100 Mr. Woodley, by name, who was always there, we had got as far 430 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:12,500 as this when who should walk in. But the gentleman himself, 431 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,800 who've been drinking his beer in the tap room and had heard the 432 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,300 whole conversation. Who was I what did I want? 433 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400 What did I mean by asking questions? 434 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:26,000 He had a fine flow of language and is adjectives were very 435 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,100 vigorous. He ended a string of abuse by a 436 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,100 vicious backhander, which I Failed to entirely avoid the 437 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,900 next few minutes were delicious. It was a straight left against 438 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,700 the slogging Ruffian. I emerged as you see me. 439 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:46,700 Mr. Woodley went home in a cart. So ended my country trip and it 440 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:50,000 must be confessed. That however, enjoyable my day 441 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 on the Surrey border has not been much more profitable than 442 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,700 your own. It says, they brought us another 443 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,300 letter from our client. You will not be surprised. 444 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:02,900 Mr. Holmes said she to hear that. 445 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,200 I'm leaving. Mr. Carruthers. 446 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,400 Employment. Even the high pay, cannot 447 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,000 reconcile me to the discomforts of my situation on Saturday. 448 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,500 I came up to town and I do not intend to return. 449 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,900 Mr. Carruthers has got a trap and so the dangers of the Lonely 450 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:23,600 Road, if there were any dangers are now over. 451 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,500 As to the special cause of my leaving, it is not merely The 452 00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:32,100 Strain situation with mr. Carruthers, but it is the 453 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,100 reappearance of that odious, man. 454 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:38,100 Mr. Woodley. He was always hideous, but he 455 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:41,100 looks more awful than ever. Now, for he appears to have had 456 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:43,900 an accident and he is much disfigured. 457 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:48,600 I saw him out of the window, but I am glad to say that I did not 458 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,700 meet him. He had a long talk with mr. 459 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:54,400 Carruthers. Who seemed much excited 460 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,800 afterwards, Woodley must be staying in the neighborhood. 461 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,700 For he did not sleep here and yet I caught a glimpse of him. 462 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:05,100 Again this morning, slinking about in the Shrubbery. 463 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,100 I would sooner have a Savage wild animal loose about the 464 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:11,800 place. I loathe and fear him more than 465 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,700 I can say, how can mr. Carruthers endure such a 466 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:20,400 creature for a moment. However, all my Will be over on 467 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,900 Saturday. So I trust Watson. 468 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:29,200 So I trust said, Holmes Gravely. There is some deep entry going 469 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,500 on around that little woman and it is our duty to see that. 470 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,300 No one will lists her upon that last journey. 471 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:39,700 I think Watson that we must spare time to run down together 472 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:43,400 on Saturday morning and make sure that this curious and 473 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,000 inclusive investigation. Has no untoward ending. 474 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,000 I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of 475 00:28:52,008 --> 00:28:56,100 the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre 476 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:59,200 than dangerous. That a man should lie in wait 477 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,200 for and follow a very handsome, woman is no unheard-of thing and 478 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,200 if he has so little audacity that he had not only dared, not 479 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,300 address her but even fled from her approach. 480 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:13,000 He was not a very formidable assailant. 481 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,700 The Ruffian Woodley was a very different person but except on 482 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,000 one occasion. He had not molested our client 483 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,200 and now he visited the house of Caruthers without intruding upon 484 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,100 her presence. The man on the bicycle was 485 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,400 doubtless, a member of those weekend parties at the hall of 486 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,600 which the Publican had spoken, but who he was or what he wanted 487 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:41,200 was as obscure as ever. It was a severity of homes is 488 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,400 Manner. And the fact that he slipped a 489 00:29:43,408 --> 00:29:46,900 revolver into his pocket before leaving our rooms, which 490 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,900 impressed me with the feeling that tragedy might prove to lurk 491 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:53,600 behind this. Curious train of events. 492 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:59,000 A rainy night has been followed by a glorious morning and the 493 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,500 heath covered Countryside with the glowing. 494 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,000 Clumps of flowering. Gorse seemed all the more 495 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,500 beautiful to eyes, which were weary of the duns and drabs and 496 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:11,400 slaked Gray's of London. Holmes and I walked along the 497 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,900 broad, Sandy Road, inhaling the fresh morning air and rejoicing 498 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:19,200 in the music of the birds and the fresh breath of the spring. 499 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,000 From a rise of the road on the shoulder of crooks Berryhill. 500 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,400 We could see the Grim Hall bristling out from amidst, the 501 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,400 ancient Oaks which old as they were was still younger than the 502 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,600 building, which they surrounded. Holmes pointed Down The Long 503 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,400 tract of road, which wound a reddish yellow band between the 504 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,900 brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods far 505 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:46,700 away a black dot. We could see a vehicle moving in 506 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:50,700 our Direction Holmes, gave an exclamation of impatience. 507 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,600 I've given a margin of half an hour, said he, if that is her 508 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,300 trap. She must be making for the 509 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:00,000 earlier train. I fear, what's in it, she will 510 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,600 be past charlington before we can possibly meet her from the 511 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,200 instant. We passed the rise. 512 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,700 We could no longer see the vehicle but we hastened onward 513 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,000 at such a pace that my sedentary life began to tell upon me. 514 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:17,000 And I was compelled to fall behind Holmes. 515 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,300 However, was always in training for he had inexhaustible stores 516 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:26,000 of His energy upon which to draw his springy step never slowed 517 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,300 until suddenly when he was a hundred yards in front of me. 518 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,800 He halted and I saw him throw up his hand. 519 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:38,100 With a gesture of grief and despair at the same instant, an 520 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:42,300 empty dog cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing 521 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:46,200 appeared around the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards 522 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,500 us. Too late Watson, too late cried 523 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:55,200 Holmes as Iran panting to his side fool at how is not to allow 524 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,500 for that earlier train. It's abduction, Watson 525 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,700 abduction, murder heaven knows what block the road stop the 526 00:32:03,708 --> 00:32:06,100 horse. That's right now, jump in and 527 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:08,900 let us see if I can repair the consequence of my own blunder. 528 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:13,500 We had sprung into the dog-cart and homes after turning, the 529 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,000 horse, gave it, a sharp, cut with the whip, and we flew back 530 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 along the road as we turned the curve. 531 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:23,000 The whole stretch of road between the hall and the he's 532 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,900 was opened up. I grasped homes his arm. 533 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,300 That's the man. I gasped a solitary cyclist was 534 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,900 coming towards us. His head was down and his 535 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,100 shoulders rounded as he put every ounce of energy that he 536 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:40,000 possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like I'm a racer. 537 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:43,700 Suddenly. He raised his bearded face saw 538 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:48,400 as close to him and pulled up springing from his machine that 539 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,600 Cole Blackbeard was in singular. Contrast to eyes were as bright 540 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,000 as if he had a fever. He stared at us and at the 541 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,500 dog-cart, then look of Amazement came over his face. 542 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,500 Hello, stop there. He shouted holding his bicycle 543 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,600 to block our road. Where did you get that dog cart? 544 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Pull up, man. He yelled drawing a pistol from 545 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,600 his side. Pull up. 546 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,400 I say Oh by George. I'll put a bullet in your horse 547 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:18,000 homes. Through the reins into my lap 548 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,300 and sprang down from the cart. You're the man. 549 00:33:21,300 --> 00:33:24,300 We want to see where is Miss Violet Smith. 550 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:28,100 He said in his quick, clear way. That's what I'm asking. 551 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:32,400 You, you're in her dog cart, you ought to know where she is. 552 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,700 We met the dog cart on the road. There was no one in it. 553 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,200 We drove back to help the young lady. 554 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:42,300 Good Lord. Good Lord. 555 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,800 What shall I do? Cried The Stranger in an ecstasy 556 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,400 of Despair. They got her that hellhound 557 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,900 Woodley and the blackguard past and come and come. 558 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,300 If you really our friend stand by me and we'll save her. 559 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,100 If I Leave my caucus in charlington wood. 560 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,200 He ran distractedly his pistol in his hand, towards a gap in 561 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:09,100 the Hedge homes, followed him, and I leaving the horse grazing 562 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:11,199 beside the road, followed Holmes. 563 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,500 This is where they came through said, he pointing to the marks 564 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,400 of several feet upon the muddy path. 565 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:19,800 Hello. Stop a minute. 566 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:25,000 Who's this in the bush? It was a young fellow about 17 567 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,699 dressed like an Osler with leather cords and Gators. 568 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:33,800 He lay upon his Back his knees drawn up, a terrible cut upon 569 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,900 his head. He was insensible. 570 00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:39,900 But alive a glance at his wound told me that it did not 571 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:44,199 penetrated the bone. That's Peter, the groom, cried 572 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,699 the stranger. He drove her, the beasts of 573 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:50,400 pulled him off and clubbed him. Let him lie. 574 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:53,699 We can't do any good. We may save her from that worse. 575 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:58,200 Fate that can befall a woman. He ran frantically down the path 576 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,500 which wound among the trees. We had reached the Shrubbery, 577 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:05,800 which surrounded the house when Holmes pulled up, They didn't go 578 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,200 to the house. Here are their marks on the left 579 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:15,600 here, beside the Laurel bushes. I said, so as he spoke a woman's 580 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,800 shrill scream, I scream which vibrated with a frenzy of horror 581 00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:23,400 bursts from the thick green clump of bushes in front of us. 582 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,500 It ended suddenly on its highest note with a choke and a gurgle. 583 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,700 This way, this way. They're in the bowling alley, 584 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,100 cried the stranger. Darting through the bushes. 585 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,000 Are the Cowardly Dog's follow me. 586 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,800 Gentlemen, too late too late by the living Jingo. 587 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,800 We had broken suddenly into a lovely Glade of greensward. 588 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:50,400 Surrounded by ancient trees on the father's side of it, under 589 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,400 the shadow of a Mighty Oak there. 590 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,700 Stood, a singular group of three people. 591 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:58,900 One was a woman, our client, drooping and faint. 592 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,600 Handkerchief round her mouth. Opposite her stead of brutal. 593 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,900 Heavy faced red mustache. Too young man. 594 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,200 His gated legs parted wide one arm akimbo, the other waving a 595 00:36:11,207 --> 00:36:13,800 riding crop. His whole attitude. 596 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,600 Suggestive of triumphant bravado between them and elderly 597 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,300 gray-bearded man. Wearing a short Surplus over a 598 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,800 light. Tweed suit had evidently just 599 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,700 completed the wedding service. For he pocketed his prayer book, 600 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:32,300 as we He appeared and slapped the Sinister bridegroom upon the 601 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:34,500 back in jovial. Congratulation. 602 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,200 Then married. I gassed. 603 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,600 Come on, cried, our guide. Come on. 604 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:46,700 He rushed across the Glade homes and I at his heels as we 605 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:50,000 approached the lady staggered against the trunk of the tree 606 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,500 for support Williamson, the ex clergyman bowed to us with mock 607 00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:59,500 politeness and the bully Woodley Advanced with a shout of brutal 608 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:00,700 and exultant. Laughter. 609 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:06,300 You can take your beard off. Bob said he my now, Right 610 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,800 enough. Well, you and your pals have 611 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,300 just come in time for me to be able to introduce you to mrs. 612 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:15,900 Woodley. Our guides answer was a singular 613 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,500 one. He snatched off the dark beard 614 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,300 which had disguised him and threw it on the ground. 615 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:26,300 Disclosing a long sallow clean-shaven face below it then 616 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,700 he raised his revolver and covered the young Ruffian who 617 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:33,000 was advancing upon him with his dangerous riding crop swinging 618 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,400 in his hand. Yes said our Ally, I am Bob 619 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,000 Carothers and I'll see this woman righted if I had to swing 620 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,600 for it. I told you what I do. 621 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,700 If you Listed her. And by the Lord, I'll be as good 622 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,400 as my word. You're too late. 623 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:54,600 She's my wife. No, she's your Widow, his 624 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,000 revolver cracked and I saw the blood spurt from the front of 625 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and 626 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,400 fell upon his back. His hideous red face turning 627 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:10,400 suddenly to a dreadful mottled. Pallor the old man's still clad 628 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,700 in his surplice burst into such a string of Paolo's. 629 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,000 As I've never heard and pulled out a revolver of his own. 630 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:21,400 But before he could raise it, he was looking down the barrel of 631 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,600 Holmes's weapon. Enough of this said, my friend 632 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,000 coldly drop that pistol Watson, pick it up. 633 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,800 Hold it to his head. Thank you. 634 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:36,400 You Carruthers, give me that revolver will have no more 635 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,000 violence, come hand it over. Who are you? 636 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,100 Then? My name is Sherlock, Holmes. 637 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,200 Good Lord. You've heard of me. 638 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,700 I see I will represent the official police until their 639 00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:53,200 arrival here. You, he shouted to a frightened 640 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,300 groom who'd appeared at the edge of the Glade. 641 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,500 Come here. Take this note as hard as you 642 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:02,300 can ride to Farnum. He scribbled, a few words upon a 643 00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:05,600 leaf from his notebook. Give it to the superintendent at 644 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,200 the police station until he comes, I must detain you all. 645 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:14,000 The, my personal custody. A strong masterful, personality 646 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000 of homes, dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally 647 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,300 puppets in his hands Williamson and Carruthers. 648 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,500 Found themselves carrying the wounded Woodley into the house 649 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:26,700 and I gave my arm to the frightened. 650 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:29,700 Girl. The injured man was laid on his 651 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,600 bed and at homes. His request. 652 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,600 I examined him. I carried my report to, where he 653 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,200 sat in the old tapestry hung dining room with his two 654 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,800 prisoners before him. He will. 655 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,300 Live said I What? Cried Carruthers. 656 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:48,100 Springing out of his chair? I'll go upstairs and finish him 657 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,800 at first. Do you tell me that that angel 658 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,500 is to be tied to Roaring Jack Woodley for life? 659 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,800 You need not concern yourself about that said Holmes. 660 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,600 There are two very good reasons why she should under no 661 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,900 circumstances be his wife. In the first place. 662 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:09,700 We are very safe in questioning. Mr. Williamson's right to 663 00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:11,400 solemnizing. A marriage. 664 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:18,000 I have been ordained cried the old Rascal and also unfrocked 665 00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,900 once a clergyman always a clergyman. 666 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:24,500 I think not. How about the license? 667 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:26,900 We had a license for the marriage. 668 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,800 I have it here in my pocket. Then you got it by Trick, but in 669 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,100 any case, a forced marriage is no. 670 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,800 Average, but it is a very serious felony, as you will 671 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,400 discover before you're finished. You'll have time to think the 672 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,900 point out during the next 10 years or so. 673 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,600 Unless I'm mistaken as to you Carruthers. 674 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,900 You would have done better to keep your pistol in your pocket. 675 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,000 I begin to think so, mr. Holmes, but when I thought of 676 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,800 all the precaution, I'd taken to Shield this girl for. 677 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,600 I loved her. Mr. Holmes, and it is the only 678 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,000 time that I've ever. I knew what love was. 679 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,800 It fairly drove me mad to think that she was in the power of the 680 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,500 greatest, brute, and bully in South Africa. 681 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,200 A man whose name is a holy Terror from Kimberly to 682 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,400 Johannesburg. Why mr. 683 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,400 Holmes, you will hardly believe it. 684 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,400 But ever since that girl has been in my employment. 685 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,300 I never once. Let her go past this house, 686 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,600 where I knew the Rascals were lurking without following her. 687 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,200 On my bicycle, just to see that she came to no harm. 688 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,800 I kept my distance from her and Wore a beard so that she should 689 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,200 not recognize me for. She is a good and high-spirited 690 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,000 girl, and she wouldn't have stayed in my employment long. 691 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000 If she had thought that, I was following her about the country 692 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,800 roads. Why didn't you tell her of her 693 00:41:48,808 --> 00:41:53,000 Danger? Because then again she would 694 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,400 have left me and I couldn't bear to face that even if she 695 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,100 couldn't love me. It was a great deal to me. 696 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:03,800 Just to see her dainty form about the house, and to hear the 697 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,600 sound of her voice. Well said I you call that love 698 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,900 mr. Carruthers, but I should call it 699 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:14,300 selfishness. Maybe the two things go 700 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:17,900 together. Anyhow, my couldn't let her go 701 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,400 besides with this crowd about it was well, that she should have 702 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,300 someone near to look after her. Then when the cable came. 703 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,700 I knew there were bound to make a move. 704 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,700 What? Cable, Carruthers took a 705 00:42:32,707 --> 00:42:38,000 telegram from his pocket. That's it said he, it was short 706 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,400 and concise. The old man is dead. 707 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:47,900 Hmm said Holmes, I think I see how things worked and I can 708 00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:51,000 understand how this message would as you say bring them to a 709 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,700 head. But while you wait, you might 710 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:58,400 tell me what you can the old reprobate with the Surplus burst 711 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:04,300 into a volley of bad language. By Heaven said he if you squeal 712 00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:07,900 on us, Bob Carothers, I'll serve you as you serve Jack Woodley. 713 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,600 You can bleed about the girl to your heart's content for. 714 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,300 That's your own Affair. But if you round on your pals to 715 00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:16,400 this plainclothes copper, it'll be the worst days work that 716 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:17,300 ever. You did. 717 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,000 Your reverence need not be excited, said, Holmes lighting a 718 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000 cigarette. The case is clear enough against 719 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,200 you and all I ask is a few details for my private 720 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,900 curiosity. However, if there's any 721 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:34,200 difficulty in, you're telling me I'll do the talking and then you 722 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,200 will see how far you have a chance of holding back your 723 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,700 secrets. In the first place, three of you 724 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:42,700 came from South Africa on this game. 725 00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:46,400 You Williamson, you Carruthers, and would lie. 726 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,700 Lie number one. Said the old man, I never saw 727 00:43:50,700 --> 00:43:53,900 either of them until two months ago, and I've never been in 728 00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:57,300 Africa in my life. So you can put that in your pipe 729 00:43:57,300 --> 00:43:59,400 and smoke it. Mr. Busybody homes. 730 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,000 What he says is true said Carruthers. 731 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,200 Well, well, two of you came over. 732 00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:09,200 His reverence is our own homemade article. 733 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,400 You had known Ralph Smith in South Africa. 734 00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:15,400 You had reason to believe, he would not live long. 735 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:19,400 You found out that his niece would Eret his fortune. 736 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,000 How's that? A Carruthers? 737 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,500 Nodded and Williamson swore. She was next of kin no doubt. 738 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:29,300 And you were aware that the old fellow would make no will 739 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:32,500 couldn't read or write said Carruthers. 740 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:37,000 So you came over the two of you and hunted up the girl. 741 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:40,500 The idea was that one of you was to marry her and the other have 742 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:45,000 a share of the plunder for some reason Woodley was chosen as the 743 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,300 husband. Why was that We played cards for 744 00:44:49,300 --> 00:44:53,900 her and on the voyage. Anyone I see you got the young 745 00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:58,200 lady into your service and their Woodley was to do the courting. 746 00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:01,800 She recognized the drunken brute that he was, and would have 747 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,400 nothing to do with him. Meanwhile. 748 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,900 Your Arrangement was rather upset by the fact that you had 749 00:45:07,900 --> 00:45:10,000 yourself fallen in love with the lady. 750 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,600 You could no longer bear. The idea of this Ruffian owning 751 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,800 her. No by George. 752 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:20,500 I couldn't. There was a quarrel between you. 753 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:23,900 He left you in a rage and began to make his own plans 754 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:28,000 independently of you. It strikes me Williamson. 755 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,300 There isn't very much that we can tell this gentleman dried 756 00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:35,800 Carruthers with a bitter laugh. Yes, we quarreled and he knocked 757 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,100 me down. I am level with him on that. 758 00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:40,700 Anyhow, then I lost sight of him. 759 00:45:41,100 --> 00:45:43,900 That was when he picked up with this Outcast Padre. 760 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:46,100 Here. I found that they had set up 761 00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:48,700 housekeeping together at this place on the line that she had 762 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:53,100 to pass for the station. I kept my eye on her after that, 763 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,700 for I knew there was some devilry in the Wind. 764 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,700 I sold them from time to time for, I was anxious to know what 765 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:04,200 they were after two days ago. Woodley came up to my house with 766 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,500 this cable which showed that Ralph Smith was dead. 767 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,100 He asked me if I would stand by The Bargain, I said, I would 768 00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:15,900 not, he asked me if I would marry the girl myself and give 769 00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:18,900 him a share. I said I would willingly do so, 770 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,700 but that she would not have me. He said, let us get her married 771 00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:26,000 first and after a week or two, she may see things of it. 772 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,500 Different. I said I'd have nothing to do 773 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:32,300 with violence. So he went off cursing, like the 774 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:36,000 foul-mouthed blackguard that. He was and swearing that he 775 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,600 would have a yet. She was leaving me this weekend 776 00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:43,300 and I've got a trap to take her to the station, but I was so 777 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:46,600 uneasy in my mind that I followed her on my bicycle. 778 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,500 She'd got to start. However, and before I could 779 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:52,500 catch her, the Mischief was done. 780 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,200 The first thing I knew about it was when I saw you two, 781 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,600 gentlemen, driving back in her dog cart. 782 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,600 Holmes, Rose and toss the end of his cigarette into the great. 783 00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:07,000 I've been very obtuse. Watson said, he went in your 784 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,800 report. You said that you had seen the 785 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,300 cyclist as you thought arrange, his necktie in the Shrubbery, 786 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:14,800 that alone should have told me all. 787 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:19,800 However, we may congratulate ourselves upon a curious and in 788 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,500 some respects, a unique case. I perceive three of the county 789 00:47:24,500 --> 00:47:27,900 constabulary in the drive. And I am glad to see that the 790 00:47:27,908 --> 00:47:30,200 little Osler is able to Pays for them. 791 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:33,500 So it is likely that neither. He nor the interesting 792 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:36,500 bridegroom will be permanently damaged by their morning's 793 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:40,200 Adventures. I think Watson that in your 794 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:44,300 medical capacity, you might wait upon Miss Smith and tell her 795 00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:47,300 that if she is sufficiently recovered, we shall be happy to 796 00:47:47,300 --> 00:47:51,600 escort her to her mother's home. If she is not quite 797 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,200 convalescent, you will find that a hint that we were about to 798 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,200 Telegraph to a young electrician in the Midlands would probably 799 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,000 complete the Cure as to you. Mr. Carruthers. 800 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,300 I think that you have done what you could do to make amends for 801 00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:09,100 your share in an evil plot. There is my card sir. 802 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:12,800 And if my evidence can be of help in your trial, it shall be 803 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:17,000 at your disposal. In the world of our incessant 804 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,200 activity, it has often been difficult for me as the reader 805 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,000 has probably observed to round off my narratives and to give 806 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,900 those final details which the Curious might expect each case 807 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:32,900 has been the Prelude to another and the crisis once over the 808 00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:35,600 actors have passed forever out of our busy lives. 809 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,800 I find however, a short note at the end of my manuscript 810 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,400 dealing, with this case, in which I have put it upon record. 811 00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,600 That Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune 812 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,400 and that she is now, the wife of Cyril, Morton the senior partner 813 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,100 of Morton and Kennedy the famous Westminster electricians 814 00:48:56,100 --> 00:49:00,400 Williamson and Woodley were both tried for abduction and assault, 815 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:06,700 the former getting seven years, the latter 10 of the fate of As 816 00:49:07,100 --> 00:49:11,000 I have no record, but I'm sure that his assault was not viewed, 817 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,600 very Gravely by the court. Since Woodley had the reputation 818 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,300 of being a most dangerous Ruffian and I think that a few 819 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:22,100 months were sufficient to satisfy the demands of Justice. 820 00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:27,400 End of the adventure of the solitary cyclist.