August 21, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I was there within the hour. I checked all the
facts that were mentioned.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
At the inquest, the footprints, the absence of physical injury,
of the facial contortion. He said, there were no traces
on the ground round the body.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
He didn't see any I.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Did foot prince a man's a a woman, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It was a foot prince of a gigantic art.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
And so began perhaps the most terrified of all the
adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
By day Miss Watson, Dr Watson. And it was my
privilege to shout them. But if ever I felt it
a doubtful privilege, it was in this our encounter with
the hundreds.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Of Basker bills.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I will tell you what happened in the fog last
week caute this dreadful cold.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Please excuse me, my friend, mister Fellar Thumbs was usually
very late in the morning, save on those not doing
frequent occasions when he.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Stayed up all night.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
One morning, when he was in the autumn of eighteen
eighty nine, he was seated at the breakfast taboman dressing gown,
and I was standing on the heart rug looking at
a stick which a visitor had left at our Baker
Street rooms the night before. It was a fine thick
piece of wood bulbous hitty, but the sort that used
to be known as a penang lawyer.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wantsome.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What do you make of that stick? We missed it
turner yesterday and I had no idea?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Is evan?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this accidental suvania assume some importance. Let me hear
you'll reconstruct themand by an examination of it, just follow
my method. Well, I think he's an only medical man.
Why because the inscription on the silver band to James
Mortimer Mars Yes from his Friends of the cc X
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eighteen eighty four excellent.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What else say he's a country practitioner who does a
great use of his disiting on foot.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh? Why the well?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Because the sick arm Ferrell has been worn down and
the whole stick has been terribly knocked about.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't see a town doctor kidding it. So I
take this sound. And what about the friends of the
c H.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think they see something hunt whatever the local hunt's called.
He's probably helped them professionally, and they gave him this
stick in return.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Really, wat, didn't you excel yourself most stimulating?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So, now that I've finished breakfast, I'd like to have
a look at that stick myself.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Just hand me over my convex lens with you. Now,
let's me seem.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your
conclusions are erroneous, not that you're entirely wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The man is certainly a comfort practitioner. Oh, I was
right to that extent. Where did I go wrong? In? Well,
for one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I would suggest that a presentation to a doctor is
more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt.
And when the initial cc are placed before that hospital,
the words charing cross.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Naturally suggest themselves. Who may be wrong? The probability lies
in that direction.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And since the presentation was made for five years ago,
there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, absent minded,
and with a favorite dog, something.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Between a terrian a massive. Now just a minute, Holmes,
how do you know he's amiable, absent minded and has
a dog?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
First my experience that only amiable men received testimonials, and
he was absent minded enough to leave his stick here.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, true, Well about the dog, Look at the teeth
parks on the stick. See, as I say, they're too
broad for a terrier. I'm not broad enough from mesti
and let me take it over to the light. Oh yes,
pyturbter liter curly head spaniel, My dear fellow. How can
you possibly be sure of that simply by looking out
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of the window? Oh god, oh, very Dorset. He's a tall,
thin man, a bit pace of the shoulders. Oh yes,
and he's proposal bit worn.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ah, you have my stick. I'm no very glad.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I wasn't sure whether I'd left it here orready shipping office.
I wouldn't lose that stick for the world, the presentation
I see, Yes, sir from charing Cross Hospital. Yes, there
were Mazza far wrong. Doctor Mortimer, James Mortimer. I'm now
in practice in Debton at Grimple on Dartmoor. I came
to you because I am confronted with a most serious
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and extraordinary problem I have in my pocket at old manuscript.
I observed it as you entered the room. It's a
family document. It was committed to my care by Sir
Charles Baskerville, who died.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Some three months ago in Devon.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, though mister Holmes, until his sudden and tragic death,
Sir Charles was a patient and also my personal friend
He was strong minded, true, practical, and as unimaginative.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
As I am.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But he took this document very seriously and was.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Prepared for just such an.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
End as eventually did over tig What's in the document
a certain legend that runs in the Baskerville family. It
tells the story of the death of Hugo Baskerville.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Who held the banner of the time with the great Felium.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hugo mister Holmes, was a wild, profane, and godless man.
His name was a byword in the west. It happened
that he fell in love with the daughter of a
yeoman who held lands near the basket of the estate.
This girl avoided him, and one Nicholas. He stole down
upon the farm with five or six.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Wicked companions and carried her off to the hall. They
put her in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
An upper room and sat down to a long carousal.
The girl, in the stress of her fear, climbed down
the ivy that still covers the south wall and set
off homeward across the moor.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Some time later Hugo went upstairs to see his captive
and found her gone. And here I think I must
put the manuscript itself. Then it would seem he became
as one that hath a devil for rushing downstairs into
the dining hall, he sprang upon the table, flagons and
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printers lying before him, and he cried. He had allowed
before all the company that he would that very night
render his body and soul to the powers of evil,
if he might but overtake the wage. And then, mister Holmes,
this wicked man, ran from the house and had his brooms,
saddle his horse, and unknnel.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The pack put the hounds on he did.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He gave them the girl's handkerchief, and set off full
cry in the moonlight over the moor.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But caught Hymns Cyndias trying to stop him.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Casuito stood there stupefied, But then.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Some sense came back into their minds, and they rode
off after him.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They found Hugo Baskerville's black Mare, dabbled with froth and riderless.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They found the hounds.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Would bring in a cluster at the head of a dip.
Three of the boldest riders, who may be the most drunken,
rode down into the dip, and there they found the
unhappy girl, lying dead with fear and fatigue.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Poor girl Hm hm.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But it wasn't that that raised the hair on their heads.
Let me could bear to a word again.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It was that, standing over Hugo and plucking at his throat,
there stood a great foul thing, a black beast, shaped
like a hound, yet larger than any hound that mortal.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Eye had rested upon. And even as they looked, the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thing tore out the throat of Hugo Baskerville. Then as
it turned its blazing eyes and gripping jaws upon them,
the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life,
still screaming across the moor. One, it is said, died
that very night of what he had seen, and the
other twain were but broken men for the rest of
their days. The writer ends by counseling his descendants never
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to cross.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The moor in those dark hours.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
As he puts it, when the powers of evil are
exalted greatcom Now we come to something a little more recent,
the death of Sir Charles Baskerville in June of this year.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Let me say at once that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Sir Charles was a man of a very different mold
from his infamous ancestor. Many people had good reason to
prevail his untimely end it for certain music. Indeed, yes,
not that his health had been good for some time.
There was an affection of the hearts showing itself in
breathlessness and nervous depression.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Was he a married man, doctor Mortimer.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He was a widower and childish.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
He lived very simply.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
His indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a couple
named Barrymore, who acted as butler and housekeeper. They corroborated
my own evidence of the inquest about his health.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
For the facts are quite simple. Every night, before he
went to bed, Sir Charles used to walk down the famous.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yew alley of Baskerville Hall. On the fourth of.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
June, he declared his intention.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of starting for London the next day and told Barrymore.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
To pack for him.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That night, he went for his walk as usual and
never returned.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who raised the alarm? Barrymore, the butler.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He found the hall door open, became alarm and went
out of the lantern halfway down, You, ellie, there's a
gate that lead out onto the war so Charles's footprints
led there, and there was evidence that he had stood
there for a while. And then the foot princes continued,
but appeared to be those.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Of a man running for his life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Read did they lead to the far end of the
alley and there the body was found and he signs
of violence? No, but the face was incredibly distorted. At first,
I couldn't believe that it really was the chance.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How do you account for the distortion? Well, if it's
a symptom, that.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Is not unusual in cases of death from cardiaci z oster.
The Prince Bottom showed a long standing organic disease until
the Colonel returned a verdict in accordance. Those are the
public facts I see.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Then, can we now have the private ones?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He would never go out on the moor at night.
One evening, about three weeks before he died, I drove
up to his house.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
He was standing at his door just as I was
getting out.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Of my gig. I noticed his eyes sticks themselves on
something over my shoulder and stare with an expression of horror.
He was so excited and alarm that I had to
go down to the spoty look round, but there was nothing.
I had to stay with him all the evening. That's
when I suggested he should go to London. Mister Stapleton
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a mutual friend was also very worried about.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Him, and he agreed with me, and then at the.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Last instant came this terrible catastrophe. How soon did you
see the body? Well, they had to send the message over.
I was there within the hour. I checked all the
facts that were mentioned at the inquest for Prince, the
absence of physical injury, the facial contortion, but verymore made
one false statement.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
In his evidence.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh what was there?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
He said?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
There were no traces on the ground round the body.
He didn't see any. I did footprints a man's or
a woman? Mister Holmes, he was a foot principle of
a gigantic art.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Stray.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Heavens.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
There are sheep dogs on the moor, no doubt, but
this was no sheep dog.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
What is the zl like?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There are two lines of old u hedge, impenetrable twelve
feet high.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Penetrated at one point by a wicket gate. You say, yes,
which leads on to the moor. Is there any other opinion? None?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was his gate closed a peddler? How high is it
about four feet?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So anyone could have got over it? Yes, Doctor Mortimer.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What made you say that Sir Charles had waited by
the gate his cigar ash.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He dropped it there twice. Excellence Watson, this is a.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Colleague after my own heart, mister Holmes. Several people have
seen a creature on the moor, something that couldn't be
any animal known to science, A huge creature Lumin's spectral.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And you, a trained man of science, believe it to
the Superman. I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sure as the footprints for material, the original hound was
material enough to tear out a man's throat, but it
was diabolical as well. Doctor Mortimer, did you hold these deals?
Why have you come to consult me? You tell me
in the same Breadthaace.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire
me to do it. I did not say I.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Desired you to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh then how can I assist you by telling me
what to do about Sir Henry Baskerville.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Sir Henry is that the heir?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yes, he's Sir Charles's nephew.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The son of his younger brother.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He's been traced in Canada, He's been farming there.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
He arrives at.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Waterloo in the who did you see him?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Just under an hour and quarter of any other cables. No.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The only other Kinsman we have been able to trace
was Roger Baskerville, the youngest of.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The three brothers, of whom poor Sir Charles.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Was the oldest. He was the black sheep of the family,
very image, so they say, of old Hugo. England became
too hot for him, and he died of yellow fever
in Central America. Henry's own father, the middle brother, died young.
So he is the last of the Baskervilles. I had
a while to say that he arrived at Southampton this morning,
and I'm on my way to meet him.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Mister Holmes, what am I to do?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I suggest you call here at ten o'clock to morrow
morning and bring Sir Henry with you.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'll do that, mister Holmes. I'd just one more question.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'll say that before Sir Charles Baskerville's death, several people
saw this apparition on the world.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yes, did any one say it afterwards? Not that I've heard.
Thanks you, doctor morrow Man. Good day, mister Holmes, good day.
I'm dead, But advice to you or the next morning
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our clans were a bunt. Here's the clock stut ten.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Doctor Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young Belilt,
a man about thirty stirred in a note with the
weather beaten appearance, the one who spent Mosby's time in
the openell.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
This is Sir Henry Baskerville.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
How well the strange thing is, if my friend here
hadn't proposed coming around here this morning, I had it
come on my own.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was this letter, if you can call it a letter.
It reached me by the.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
First post, Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland hotel chairing class.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Who knew you were going to stay there? No one.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We only decided after I met doctor Mornomon, but presumably
he was already stayed.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, so no, I've been staying with a friend.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
There was no possible indication that we intended to stay
at that hotel. I'll see, Oh, somebody seems to be
deeply interested in your movements. And may I read the
letter of peace?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
As you'll see, it's only a single sentence.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I notice it's made up of printed words pasted on
for a sheet of foolscap As you value your life
or your reason, keep away from the moor.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The word moore has written in ink. It's everyone now.
Perhaps you'll tell me what in thunders.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
The meaning of that?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
An? He want to Mark? I wonder?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, No, I don't see any Now.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Tell me, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened
to you since you've been in London?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well no, I don't think so. You've not observed anyone
following you or watch you.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I seem to have worked right into the thick of
a dime model. Now, why in thunder should anyone follow
me or watch me?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We're coming to that. You've nothing else to report to it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
No, unless you think it's work reporting that I've lost
one of.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
My boots for you.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Indeed, yes, I put them both outside my door last night,
and there was only one there this morning. I couldn't
get me sense out of a fellow who cleans them.
But it seems as singularly useless thing to stee. Oh,
I told you'd be bound to turn up.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Look, gentlemen, it seems to me that I have spoken
quite enough of the little I know.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's time you kept your promise and told me what
they're all driving at. I quite agree, doctor Mosman. Will
you be good enough to.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tell Sir Henry your story.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
As you turned it to us by all means. It begins,
sir Henry, with this manuscript huh, which has been in
the possession of your family for general reef.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with
a vengeance.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Of course, I've heard of the hand since I.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Was in the nursery, but I never thought of tea seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But as to my uncle's death, I can't. I can't
get it clear. Yet.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You don't seem to have made up your minds whether
it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Precisely.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The point we have to decide now there's Henry, is
whether or not it's advisable for you to go to
Basketball Hall. Why shouldn't I? There seems to be danger.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
You mean danger from the family fiend or danger from
human beings.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's what they have to find out. Mmm.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, whichever it is, my answer is fixed. There is
no devil in hell, mister Holmes, and there is no
man on earth who can stop me going to the
home of my own people.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And you can take that as my final answer. Brabo. No.
I look, mister Holmes, I.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'd rather like a quiet out.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
To myself to think about all this of course, I'll
go back to my hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Look, why don't you and doctor Watson come on lunch
with us? There to a carpo? Thank you? Is that
convenient to you? Watson? Very good? Then you may expect this.
How shall I have a cab? Quote? No, no, no,
I prefer to walk. If you'll join me, Dr Mortimon
with pleasure, Well then we will meet again too. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I don't Barney than.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He seems a good enough champ.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Quick Watson, while I get my fuck cut?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's at the window and see which way they go?
Of course is midcare. There are people at that tails.
We a shadow of them and see what happens. Yeah,
watchn't they stopped to look in the shop window. We'd
better do the same.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
No, wait, Dot, that handsome care gets us stopped as well.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's following them, that's our man. Yes, that's because I
look at him. Oh task it, he's seen us. He
shot into his cab. Let's run off.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh useless.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They've got too good a start, Oh Watson, if you're
an honest man, you can record this and set it
against my successes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He wos the nare? I have no idea? Did you
see his face? Oh, a big black beard, quite so,
probably a false one that can seal his true features.
He is just a disadvantage. Now we need to put
himself in the part of the cabin. Exactly what a
pity we didn't get a number the.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Idea, Watson CONSI as I had been you surely don't
I measure that I neglected to get that two seven
of foils a man.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We must find out by why the identity of the
cabman and arranged a question. What about tow Heim and
or Motimer? There's no point in following them?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Now come Watson, the nearest telegraph of this, and then
we can drop into one of the Bond Street picture
gatherleries until you, Oh, mister Holmes, stay head there.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did you know you were followed from my rooms this morning?
Followed by whom, well, whoever he was. He informed the
catle that his name was Sherlock holmb But doctor Montimer,
have you among your acquaintances on dark nor any man
with a black full beard?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Let me see. Ah, yes, Barrymore, Sir Charles's but like
he has just.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Such appeared Barrimore all his family have looked after the
hall for four generations.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now did barrymore profit at all by Sir.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Charles as well, Sir Henry, Yes, he and his wife
had about five hundred pounds each.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Ah did they nur its coming to them? Oh? Yes,
Sir Charles was fond of talking about his will. Oh
that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I hope you don't suspect everyone who received a legacy
from Sir Charles.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I myself was.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Left a thousand pounds indeed, and anyone else there were
a number of small bequests to individuals and charities that
the residue all went to Sir Henry. Here, Sir Henry,
how much was the residue? Seven hundred and forty thousand pounds? Really,
I had no idea that such I get because I
was involved. It's a stake for which a man might
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well play a desperate game. One more question, Doctor Mortimer,
if anything happened to our young friend here, you'll forgive
the unpleasant hypothesis, who would inherit the estate? There were
some distant cousins named the Desmonds.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
James Desmond is an elderly.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Certainman in Westmorland. I see.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Tell mis, Sir Henry, I have the mysterious events of
the last few hours caused you to change your mind
about Basket of Hall.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Mister Holmes, they have just made me all the more
determined to go down there at the very first moment
I can.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Then, I only make one provision. You certainly must not
go alone. Doctor Mortimer's going with me.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But doctor Mortimer has his practice to attend to in
his house is miles away from yours. With all the
good will in the world, he may not be able
to help you. Now, Sir Henry, you must take somebody
with you, a trusty.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Man who will be always by your side.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What could you possibly come yourself, mister Holmes, if met
has come to a crisis, I.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Should endeavor to be present in person. But my extensive
practice and the constant appeals that reach they make it impossible.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
For me to be away from London in destiny. No
of whom would you recommend them?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
If my friend Dr Watson would take it. There is
no man better worth heaving at your side when you're
in a tight place. No man can say so more
confidently than I. Oh so oh, now, that's that's real
kind of you, Dr Watson. But if you'll come down
to Basketball Hall and see me through, I'll.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Never forget it. I'll come it pleasure. I don't know
how you employ my time better.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Excellent, Now, Watson, you will report very carefully to me
when a crisis comes, as it will do, I will
direct you how to react.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yes, could you stop by Saturday? So that's true, doctor Watson,
will perfectly. Then on Saturday, unless you hear to the contrary,
we shall meet at the ten thirty train from Paddy.
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As the train sped out of Pattison, I looked back
at the troll.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Or steal figure of home gazing outers. The place had
done it once any many few hours. The brown earth
had become ruddy, the brick changed the granite, and then
over the green squares of the fields and the low
curve of a wood, there rose.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
In the distance a gray, melancholy hill.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
This traine jagged sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There you are, sir Henry. There's your first duel, the
more dark Moore. Hm.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
You know, I've been over a good part of the world,
but I've never had a moment to compare with this.
This is your home, gumming, yes, yes, but it's more
than that. This is where the men of my blood
have lived for centuries. Up on those moves, and up
there too, there's something that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Has haunted them and driven them to their deaths. I
know one thing, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Whatever it is that looks up there, whether it's man
or fiend, it's not driving me away.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I'm going to face it and beat it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
The hand of the Basketballs must be one of the
most famous stories of Sherlock Holmes, when the inspired pens
Rathur couldn't do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
We'll presented it in three parts.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You've just heard part one. My name in real life
is Norman Shelley. My old friend.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Carton Hobbes bayed Sherlock Holmes, and I was doctor Watson.
Phelix Spolson wrote our script for this BBC production from London.
I look forward to the pleasure of your company again
very soon for part two of The Hound of the
Best Vills.
I was there within the hour. I checked all the
facts that were mentioned.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
At the inquest, the footprints, the absence of physical injury,
of the facial contortion. He said, there were no traces
on the ground round the body.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
He didn't see any I.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Did foot prince a man's a a woman, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It was a foot prince of a gigantic art.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
And so began perhaps the most terrified of all the
adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
By day Miss Watson, Dr Watson. And it was my
privilege to shout them. But if ever I felt it
a doubtful privilege, it was in this our encounter with
the hundreds.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Of Basker bills.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I will tell you what happened in the fog last
week caute this dreadful cold.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Please excuse me, my friend, mister Fellar Thumbs was usually
very late in the morning, save on those not doing
frequent occasions when he.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Stayed up all night.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
One morning, when he was in the autumn of eighteen
eighty nine, he was seated at the breakfast taboman dressing gown,
and I was standing on the heart rug looking at
a stick which a visitor had left at our Baker
Street rooms the night before. It was a fine thick
piece of wood bulbous hitty, but the sort that used
to be known as a penang lawyer.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wantsome.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
What do you make of that stick? We missed it
turner yesterday and I had no idea?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Is evan?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So this accidental suvania assume some importance. Let me hear
you'll reconstruct themand by an examination of it, just follow
my method. Well, I think he's an only medical man.
Why because the inscription on the silver band to James
Mortimer Mars Yes from his Friends of the cc X
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eighteen eighty four excellent.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What else say he's a country practitioner who does a
great use of his disiting on foot.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh? Why the well?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Because the sick arm Ferrell has been worn down and
the whole stick has been terribly knocked about.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't see a town doctor kidding it. So I
take this sound. And what about the friends of the
c H.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think they see something hunt whatever the local hunt's called.
He's probably helped them professionally, and they gave him this
stick in return.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Really, wat, didn't you excel yourself most stimulating?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So, now that I've finished breakfast, I'd like to have
a look at that stick myself.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Just hand me over my convex lens with you. Now,
let's me seem.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your
conclusions are erroneous, not that you're entirely wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The man is certainly a comfort practitioner. Oh, I was
right to that extent. Where did I go wrong? In? Well,
for one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I would suggest that a presentation to a doctor is
more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt.
And when the initial cc are placed before that hospital,
the words charing cross.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Naturally suggest themselves. Who may be wrong? The probability lies
in that direction.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And since the presentation was made for five years ago,
there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, absent minded,
and with a favorite dog, something.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Between a terrian a massive. Now just a minute, Holmes,
how do you know he's amiable, absent minded and has
a dog?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
First my experience that only amiable men received testimonials, and
he was absent minded enough to leave his stick here.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, true, Well about the dog, Look at the teeth
parks on the stick. See, as I say, they're too
broad for a terrier. I'm not broad enough from mesti
and let me take it over to the light. Oh yes,
pyturbter liter curly head spaniel, My dear fellow. How can
you possibly be sure of that simply by looking out
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of the window? Oh god, oh, very Dorset. He's a tall,
thin man, a bit pace of the shoulders. Oh yes,
and he's proposal bit worn.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ah, you have my stick. I'm no very glad.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I wasn't sure whether I'd left it here orready shipping office.
I wouldn't lose that stick for the world, the presentation
I see, Yes, sir from charing Cross Hospital. Yes, there
were Mazza far wrong. Doctor Mortimer, James Mortimer. I'm now
in practice in Debton at Grimple on Dartmoor. I came
to you because I am confronted with a most serious
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and extraordinary problem I have in my pocket at old manuscript.
I observed it as you entered the room. It's a
family document. It was committed to my care by Sir
Charles Baskerville, who died.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Some three months ago in Devon.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, though mister Holmes, until his sudden and tragic death,
Sir Charles was a patient and also my personal friend
He was strong minded, true, practical, and as unimaginative.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
As I am.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But he took this document very seriously and was.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Prepared for just such an.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
End as eventually did over tig What's in the document
a certain legend that runs in the Baskerville family. It
tells the story of the death of Hugo Baskerville.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Who held the banner of the time with the great Felium.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hugo mister Holmes, was a wild, profane, and godless man.
His name was a byword in the west. It happened
that he fell in love with the daughter of a
yeoman who held lands near the basket of the estate.
This girl avoided him, and one Nicholas. He stole down
upon the farm with five or six.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Wicked companions and carried her off to the hall. They
put her in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
An upper room and sat down to a long carousal.
The girl, in the stress of her fear, climbed down
the ivy that still covers the south wall and set
off homeward across the moor.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Some time later Hugo went upstairs to see his captive
and found her gone. And here I think I must
put the manuscript itself. Then it would seem he became
as one that hath a devil for rushing downstairs into
the dining hall, he sprang upon the table, flagons and
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printers lying before him, and he cried. He had allowed
before all the company that he would that very night
render his body and soul to the powers of evil,
if he might but overtake the wage. And then, mister Holmes,
this wicked man, ran from the house and had his brooms,
saddle his horse, and unknnel.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The pack put the hounds on he did.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He gave them the girl's handkerchief, and set off full
cry in the moonlight over the moor.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But caught Hymns Cyndias trying to stop him.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Casuito stood there stupefied, But then.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Some sense came back into their minds, and they rode
off after him.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They found Hugo Baskerville's black Mare, dabbled with froth and riderless.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They found the hounds.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Would bring in a cluster at the head of a dip.
Three of the boldest riders, who may be the most drunken,
rode down into the dip, and there they found the
unhappy girl, lying dead with fear and fatigue.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Poor girl Hm hm.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
But it wasn't that that raised the hair on their heads.
Let me could bear to a word again.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It was that, standing over Hugo and plucking at his throat,
there stood a great foul thing, a black beast, shaped
like a hound, yet larger than any hound that mortal.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Eye had rested upon. And even as they looked, the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Thing tore out the throat of Hugo Baskerville. Then as
it turned its blazing eyes and gripping jaws upon them,
the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life,
still screaming across the moor. One, it is said, died
that very night of what he had seen, and the
other twain were but broken men for the rest of
their days. The writer ends by counseling his descendants never
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to cross.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The moor in those dark hours.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
As he puts it, when the powers of evil are
exalted greatcom Now we come to something a little more recent,
the death of Sir Charles Baskerville in June of this year.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Let me say at once that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Sir Charles was a man of a very different mold
from his infamous ancestor. Many people had good reason to
prevail his untimely end it for certain music. Indeed, yes,
not that his health had been good for some time.
There was an affection of the hearts showing itself in
breathlessness and nervous depression.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Was he a married man, doctor Mortimer.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He was a widower and childish.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
He lived very simply.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
His indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a couple
named Barrymore, who acted as butler and housekeeper. They corroborated
my own evidence of the inquest about his health.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
For the facts are quite simple. Every night, before he
went to bed, Sir Charles used to walk down the famous.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yew alley of Baskerville Hall. On the fourth of.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
June, he declared his intention.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of starting for London the next day and told Barrymore.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
To pack for him.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
That night, he went for his walk as usual and
never returned.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Who raised the alarm? Barrymore, the butler.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He found the hall door open, became alarm and went
out of the lantern halfway down, You, ellie, there's a
gate that lead out onto the war so Charles's footprints
led there, and there was evidence that he had stood
there for a while. And then the foot princes continued,
but appeared to be those.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Of a man running for his life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Read did they lead to the far end of the
alley and there the body was found and he signs
of violence? No, but the face was incredibly distorted. At first,
I couldn't believe that it really was the chance.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How do you account for the distortion? Well, if it's
a symptom, that.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Is not unusual in cases of death from cardiaci z oster.
The Prince Bottom showed a long standing organic disease until
the Colonel returned a verdict in accordance. Those are the
public facts I see.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Then, can we now have the private ones?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He would never go out on the moor at night.
One evening, about three weeks before he died, I drove
up to his house.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
He was standing at his door just as I was
getting out.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Of my gig. I noticed his eyes sticks themselves on
something over my shoulder and stare with an expression of horror.
He was so excited and alarm that I had to
go down to the spoty look round, but there was nothing.
I had to stay with him all the evening. That's
when I suggested he should go to London. Mister Stapleton
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a mutual friend was also very worried about.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Him, and he agreed with me, and then at the.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Last instant came this terrible catastrophe. How soon did you
see the body? Well, they had to send the message over.
I was there within the hour. I checked all the
facts that were mentioned at the inquest for Prince, the
absence of physical injury, the facial contortion, but verymore made
one false statement.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
In his evidence.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh what was there?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
He said?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
There were no traces on the ground round the body.
He didn't see any. I did footprints a man's or
a woman? Mister Holmes, he was a foot principle of
a gigantic art.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Stray.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Heavens.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
There are sheep dogs on the moor, no doubt, but
this was no sheep dog.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
What is the zl like?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There are two lines of old u hedge, impenetrable twelve
feet high.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Penetrated at one point by a wicket gate. You say, yes,
which leads on to the moor. Is there any other opinion? None?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was his gate closed a peddler? How high is it
about four feet?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So anyone could have got over it? Yes, Doctor Mortimer.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What made you say that Sir Charles had waited by
the gate his cigar ash.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He dropped it there twice. Excellence Watson, this is a.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Colleague after my own heart, mister Holmes. Several people have
seen a creature on the moor, something that couldn't be
any animal known to science, A huge creature Lumin's spectral.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And you, a trained man of science, believe it to
the Superman. I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sure as the footprints for material, the original hound was
material enough to tear out a man's throat, but it
was diabolical as well. Doctor Mortimer, did you hold these deals?
Why have you come to consult me? You tell me
in the same Breadthaace.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire
me to do it. I did not say I.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Desired you to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh then how can I assist you by telling me
what to do about Sir Henry Baskerville.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Sir Henry is that the heir?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yes, he's Sir Charles's nephew.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The son of his younger brother.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He's been traced in Canada, He's been farming there.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
He arrives at.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Waterloo in the who did you see him?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Just under an hour and quarter of any other cables. No.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The only other Kinsman we have been able to trace
was Roger Baskerville, the youngest of.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The three brothers, of whom poor Sir Charles.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Was the oldest. He was the black sheep of the family,
very image, so they say, of old Hugo. England became
too hot for him, and he died of yellow fever
in Central America. Henry's own father, the middle brother, died young.
So he is the last of the Baskervilles. I had
a while to say that he arrived at Southampton this morning,
and I'm on my way to meet him.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Mister Holmes, what am I to do?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
I suggest you call here at ten o'clock to morrow
morning and bring Sir Henry with you.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'll do that, mister Holmes. I'd just one more question.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You'll say that before Sir Charles Baskerville's death, several people
saw this apparition on the world.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yes, did any one say it afterwards? Not that I've heard.
Thanks you, doctor morrow Man. Good day, mister Holmes, good day.
I'm dead, But advice to you or the next morning
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our clans were a bunt. Here's the clock stut ten.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Doctor Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young Belilt,
a man about thirty stirred in a note with the
weather beaten appearance, the one who spent Mosby's time in
the openell.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
This is Sir Henry Baskerville.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
How well the strange thing is, if my friend here
hadn't proposed coming around here this morning, I had it
come on my own.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was this letter, if you can call it a letter.
It reached me by the.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
First post, Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland hotel chairing class.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Who knew you were going to stay there? No one.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We only decided after I met doctor Mornomon, but presumably
he was already stayed.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, so no, I've been staying with a friend.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
There was no possible indication that we intended to stay
at that hotel. I'll see, Oh, somebody seems to be
deeply interested in your movements. And may I read the
letter of peace?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
As you'll see, it's only a single sentence.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I notice it's made up of printed words pasted on
for a sheet of foolscap As you value your life
or your reason, keep away from the moor.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The word moore has written in ink. It's everyone now.
Perhaps you'll tell me what in thunders.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
The meaning of that?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
An? He want to Mark? I wonder?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, No, I don't see any Now.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Tell me, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened
to you since you've been in London?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well no, I don't think so. You've not observed anyone
following you or watch you.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I seem to have worked right into the thick of
a dime model. Now, why in thunder should anyone follow
me or watch me?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
We're coming to that. You've nothing else to report to it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
No, unless you think it's work reporting that I've lost
one of.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
My boots for you.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Indeed, yes, I put them both outside my door last night,
and there was only one there this morning. I couldn't
get me sense out of a fellow who cleans them.
But it seems as singularly useless thing to stee. Oh,
I told you'd be bound to turn up.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Look, gentlemen, it seems to me that I have spoken
quite enough of the little I know.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's time you kept your promise and told me what
they're all driving at. I quite agree, doctor Mosman. Will
you be good enough to.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tell Sir Henry your story.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
As you turned it to us by all means. It begins,
sir Henry, with this manuscript huh, which has been in
the possession of your family for general reef.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with
a vengeance.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Of course, I've heard of the hand since I.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Was in the nursery, but I never thought of tea seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But as to my uncle's death, I can't. I can't
get it clear. Yet.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You don't seem to have made up your minds whether
it's a case for a policeman or a clergyman.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Precisely.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The point we have to decide now there's Henry, is
whether or not it's advisable for you to go to
Basketball Hall. Why shouldn't I? There seems to be danger.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
You mean danger from the family fiend or danger from
human beings.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's what they have to find out. Mmm.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, whichever it is, my answer is fixed. There is
no devil in hell, mister Holmes, and there is no
man on earth who can stop me going to the
home of my own people.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
And you can take that as my final answer. Brabo. No.
I look, mister Holmes, I.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'd rather like a quiet out.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
To myself to think about all this of course, I'll
go back to my hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Look, why don't you and doctor Watson come on lunch
with us? There to a carpo? Thank you? Is that
convenient to you? Watson? Very good? Then you may expect this.
How shall I have a cab? Quote? No, no, no,
I prefer to walk. If you'll join me, Dr Mortimon
with pleasure, Well then we will meet again too. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I don't Barney than.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
He seems a good enough champ.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Quick Watson, while I get my fuck cut?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's at the window and see which way they go?
Of course is midcare. There are people at that tails.
We a shadow of them and see what happens. Yeah,
watchn't they stopped to look in the shop window. We'd
better do the same.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
No, wait, Dot, that handsome care gets us stopped as well.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's following them, that's our man. Yes, that's because I
look at him. Oh task it, he's seen us. He
shot into his cab. Let's run off.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh useless.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They've got too good a start, Oh Watson, if you're
an honest man, you can record this and set it
against my successes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He wos the nare? I have no idea? Did you
see his face? Oh, a big black beard, quite so,
probably a false one that can seal his true features.
He is just a disadvantage. Now we need to put
himself in the part of the cabin. Exactly what a
pity we didn't get a number the.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Idea, Watson CONSI as I had been you surely don't
I measure that I neglected to get that two seven
of foils a man.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We must find out by why the identity of the
cabman and arranged a question. What about tow Heim and
or Motimer? There's no point in following them?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Now come Watson, the nearest telegraph of this, and then
we can drop into one of the Bond Street picture
gatherleries until you, Oh, mister Holmes, stay head there.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Did you know you were followed from my rooms this morning?
Followed by whom, well, whoever he was. He informed the
catle that his name was Sherlock holmb But doctor Montimer,
have you among your acquaintances on dark nor any man
with a black full beard?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Let me see. Ah, yes, Barrymore, Sir Charles's but like
he has just.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Such appeared Barrimore all his family have looked after the
hall for four generations.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now did barrymore profit at all by Sir.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Charles as well, Sir Henry, Yes, he and his wife
had about five hundred pounds each.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Ah did they nur its coming to them? Oh? Yes,
Sir Charles was fond of talking about his will. Oh
that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I hope you don't suspect everyone who received a legacy
from Sir Charles.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I myself was.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Left a thousand pounds indeed, and anyone else there were
a number of small bequests to individuals and charities that
the residue all went to Sir Henry. Here, Sir Henry,
how much was the residue? Seven hundred and forty thousand pounds? Really,
I had no idea that such I get because I
was involved. It's a stake for which a man might
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well play a desperate game. One more question, Doctor Mortimer,
if anything happened to our young friend here, you'll forgive
the unpleasant hypothesis, who would inherit the estate? There were
some distant cousins named the Desmonds.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
James Desmond is an elderly.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Certainman in Westmorland. I see.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Tell mis, Sir Henry, I have the mysterious events of
the last few hours caused you to change your mind
about Basket of Hall.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Mister Holmes, they have just made me all the more
determined to go down there at the very first moment
I can.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Then, I only make one provision. You certainly must not
go alone. Doctor Mortimer's going with me.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But doctor Mortimer has his practice to attend to in
his house is miles away from yours. With all the
good will in the world, he may not be able
to help you. Now, Sir Henry, you must take somebody
with you, a trusty.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Man who will be always by your side.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What could you possibly come yourself, mister Holmes, if met
has come to a crisis, I.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Should endeavor to be present in person. But my extensive
practice and the constant appeals that reach they make it impossible.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
For me to be away from London in destiny. No
of whom would you recommend them?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
If my friend Dr Watson would take it. There is
no man better worth heaving at your side when you're
in a tight place. No man can say so more
confidently than I. Oh so oh, now, that's that's real
kind of you, Dr Watson. But if you'll come down
to Basketball Hall and see me through, I'll.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Never forget it. I'll come it pleasure. I don't know
how you employ my time better.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Excellent, Now, Watson, you will report very carefully to me
when a crisis comes, as it will do, I will
direct you how to react.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yes, could you stop by Saturday? So that's true, doctor Watson,
will perfectly. Then on Saturday, unless you hear to the contrary,
we shall meet at the ten thirty train from Paddy.
(24:10):
As the train sped out of Pattison, I looked back
at the troll.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Or steal figure of home gazing outers. The place had
done it once any many few hours. The brown earth
had become ruddy, the brick changed the granite, and then
over the green squares of the fields and the low
curve of a wood, there rose.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
In the distance a gray, melancholy hill.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
This traine jagged sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There you are, sir Henry. There's your first duel, the
more dark Moore. Hm.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
You know, I've been over a good part of the world,
but I've never had a moment to compare with this.
This is your home, gumming, yes, yes, but it's more
than that. This is where the men of my blood
have lived for centuries. Up on those moves, and up
there too, there's something that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Has haunted them and driven them to their deaths. I
know one thing, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Whatever it is that looks up there, whether it's man
or fiend, it's not driving me away.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I'm going to face it and beat it.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
The hand of the Basketballs must be one of the
most famous stories of Sherlock Holmes, when the inspired pens
Rathur couldn't do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
We'll presented it in three parts.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You've just heard part one. My name in real life
is Norman Shelley. My old friend.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Carton Hobbes bayed Sherlock Holmes, and I was doctor Watson.
Phelix Spolson wrote our script for this BBC production from London.
I look forward to the pleasure of your company again
very soon for part two of The Hound of the
Best Vills.
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