I went to Devonshire with the conviction that Fitzroy Simpson was the true culprit, although, of course, I saw that the evidence against him was by no means complete. Inspector Gregory and Sherlock Holmes in "Silver Blaze" (Doubleday p. 346-7) Top 10 #10: They were the footprints of a gigantic hound! It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer’s house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. Then, having left the door open behind him, he was leading the horse away over the moor, when he was either met or overtaken by the trainer. Then stretching himself upon his face and leaning his chin upon his hands, he made a careful study of the trampled mud in front of him. Colonel Ross’s Silver Blaze. It is obvious, therefore, that there were many people who had the strongest interest in preventing Silver Blaze from being there at the fall of the flag next Tuesday. “But I don’t see him. No, sir, no; it is as much as my place is worth to let him see me touch your money. She took no liquid, as there was a water-tap in the stables, and it was the rule that the lad on duty should drink nothing else. “Capital! “Yes, I have his assurance,” said the Colonel, with a shrug of his shoulders. This part of the moor, as the Inspector remarked, is very hard and dry. “Wonderful! A minute later, however, when Hunter rushed out with the hound he was gone, and though he ran all round the buildings he failed to find any trace of him.”, “One moment,” I asked. Let me have the straight tip and you won’t be a loser. “I should let the name stand.”, The Colonel bowed. “I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. A horse so treated would develop a slight lameness, which would be put down to a strain in exercise or a touch of rheumatism, but never to foul play.”, “We have here the explanation of why John Straker wished to take the horse out on to the moor. Duke of Balmoral’s Iris. The flavor is not disagreeable, but it is perceptible. “He tried to bluster out of it, but I described to him so exactly what his actions had been upon that morning that he is convinced that I was watching him. What a stroke of luck!’ he cried. The Inspector opened his eyes, and the Colonel’s lip curled in a sneer. Purple cap. After the boy is drugged by opium, the horse disappears, and the trainer is found bludgeoned on a lonely moor, suspicion falls on the gambler, but if he is guilty, where is Silver Blaze? It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into grays before Holmes and the trainer reappeared. Add the first question. When confronted with his cravat, he turned very pale, and was utterly unable to account for its presence in the hand of the murdered man. Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other. Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favorite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. “I have been on the turf for twenty years, and never was asked such a question as that before,” said he. “We have an open carriage outside, and as you would no doubt like to see the place before the light fails, we might talk it over as we drive.”. As I spoke a powerful bay horse swept out from the weighing enclosure and cantered past us, bearing on its back the well-known black and red of the Colonel. I was about to make some reply in defense of my friend when he entered the room again. Created by John Hawkesworth. However there appears to be nothing more to learn, and we may now go down to the scene of the crime.”. “Ten minutes’ talk with you, my good sir,” said Holmes in the sweetest of voices. Why didn’t you go down yesterday?”, “Because I made a blunder, my dear Watson—which is, I am afraid, a more common occurrence than any one would think who only knew me through your memoirs. “I assure you that I have not associated you with the crime, Colonel,” said he. “’What business have you here?’ asked the lad. “Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of the devil's foot, Silver Blaze, Wisteria Lodge and the Bruce-Partington Plans. A curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste. Again the ground sloped, and again we came on the tracks. However, I shall very quickly test the matter when I am once upon the spot, and until then I cannot really see how we can get much further than our present position.”. “I am sorry to say that we have made very little progress,” said the Inspector. Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor. a horse. The trainer, John Straker, is a retired jockey who rode in Colonel Ross’s colors before he became too heavy for the weighing-chair. Doyle, Arthur Conan. And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. Tavistock itself lies two miles to the west, while across the moor, also about two miles distant, is the larger training establishment of Mapleton, which belongs to Lord Backwater, and is managed by Silas Brown. Currently the modernized version with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, using adaptations of some of the original stories, is quite popular, as is the American TV show, Elementary, with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. “Have there been any fresh developments?” asked Holmes. This FAQ is empty. The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. It was absolutely necessary to do it in the open air.”, “I have been blind!” cried the Colonel. Were he but gifted with imagination he might rise to great heights in his profession. “I should be most happy to go down with you if I should not be in the way,” said I. I was thunderstruck by my friend’s words. “Where was the horse?”, “Ah, it bolted, and was cared for by one of your neighbors. “That’s not my horse,” cried the owner. Cinnamon jacket. Obviously the midnight visitor was some one whom the dog knew well. But there goes the bell, and as I stand to win a little on this next race, I shall defer a lengthy explanation until a more fitting time.”. Let us follow the return track.”. What is his own explanation as to the paper which he wished the maid to give to the stable-boy?”, “He says that it was a ten-pound note. And you, what the devil do you want here?”. His eyes were on the trail, but I happened to look a little to one side, and saw to my surprise the same tracks coming back again in the opposite direction. “The real murderer is standing immediately behind you.” He stepped past and laid his hand upon the glossy neck of the thoroughbred. “Perhaps you would prefer at once to go on to the scene of the crime, Mr. Holmes?” said Gregory. Above all, where could he, a stranger to the district, hide a horse, and such a horse as this? “I suppose that you would know him when you saw him?” asked Holmes. And it may lessen his guilt if I say that it was done in self-defense, and that John Straker was a man who was entirely unworthy of your confidence. “Twenty-two guineas is rather heavy for a single costume. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? “Yes, I think I can. At the brink of it was the furze-bush upon which the coat had been hung. Is it a fact that at the weights Bayard could give the other a hundred yards in five furlongs, and that the stable have put their money on him?’, “’So, you’re one of those damned touts!’ cried the lad. For a dishonest one, obviously, or why should he drug his own stable-boy? “A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with,” remarked Holmes as we trudged along together. Well, you shall hear from me to-morrow.” He turned upon his heel, disregarding the trembling hand which the other held out to him, and we set off for King’s Pyland. We have, however, examined the stables, and there is nothing to connect him with the affair.”, “And nothing to connect this man Simpson with the interests of the Mapleton stables?”, Holmes leaned back in the carriage, and the conversation ceased. Mr. Heath Newton’s The Negro. “It’s a lie!” he shouted, “an infernal lie!”, “Very good. I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person, and I can hardly expect your co-operation if I do not show you the position from which we start.”. “I should be very glad.” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the Inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. Surely that is clear.”, “I have already said that he must have gone to King’s Pyland or to Mapleton. Don’t you think that you have kept up your mystery long enough, Mr. Holmes?”, “Certainly, Colonel, you shall know everything. ‘I had almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor, when I saw the light of your lantern.’. Might I ask for a photograph of Mr. John Straker?”. It was alone before. The horse may be at the bottom of one of the pits or old mines upon the moor.”, “He acknowledges that it is his, and declares that he had lost it. Drive on, coachman!”. Web. “From that time on all was plain. . He is not a stranger to the district. He has no children, keeps one maid-servant, and is comfortably off. “Oh no, there shall be no mistake. (13 Apr 1988). “’Good-evening,’ said he, looking through the window. Silas Brown, the trainer, is known to have had large bets upon the event, and he was no friend to poor Straker. Directed by Brian Mills. “The police imagine, I take it, that this Fitzroy Simpson, having drugged the lad, and having in some way obtained a duplicate key, opened the stable door and took out the horse, with the intention, apparently, of kidnapping him altogether. Purple cap. “I quite recognize that I am under obligations to you, Mr. Holmes,” said he, “but I must regard what you have just said as either a very bad joke or an insult.”. This document was downloaded from Lit2Go, a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. As we approached, a groom ran out from them. Lit2Go Edition. As we stepped into the carriage one of the stable-lads held the door open for us. Let us take that as a working hypothesis and see what it leads us to. Let us all go round and have a look at the horse together. ‘You’ve two horses in for the Wessex Cup—Silver Blaze and Bayard. “You will find us at poor Straker’s house when you have finished your walk, and we can drive together into Tavistock.”. “I confess that I can make neither head nor tail of it. You wore a costume of dove-colored silk with ostrich-feather trimming.”. He did not attempt to deny that he had acted as described upon the evening before, but declared that he had no sinister designs, and had simply wished to obtain first-hand information. As Sherlock Holmes replaced the half-crown which he had drawn from his pocket, a fierce-looking elderly man strode out from the gate with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. “’Oh, indeed! But Mr. Holmes here has come from London to help us, and we shall do all that is possible.”. What chemist sold him the powdered opium? Lord Singleford’s Rasper. She had begun to tell him of what had happened, when the stranger came up again. As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a gray suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap. Straker was brought back here, I presume?”, “Yes; he lies upstairs. How he went out to it, and his astonishment at recognizing, from the white forehead which has given the favorite its name, that chance had put in his power the only horse which could beat the one upon which he had put his money. “Your instructions will be done. I questioned Mrs. Straker as to the dress without her knowing it, and having satisfied myself that it had never reached her, I made a note of the milliner’s address, and felt that by calling there with Straker’s photograph I could easily dispose of the mythical Derbyshire. Immediately beyond there was a bowl-shaped depression in the moor, and at the bottom of this was found the dead body of the unfortunate trainer. There have been cases before now where trainers have made sure of great sums of money by laying against their own horses, through agents, and then preventing them from winning by fraud. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box. Pink cap. But from that morning he has disappeared, and although a large reward has been offered, and all the gypsies of Dartmoor are on the alert, no news has come of him. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminum pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible blade marked Weiss & Co., London. “Should I be too early to see your master, Mr. Silas Brown, if I were to call at five o’clock to-morrow morning?”, “Bless you, sir, if any one is about he will be, for he is always the first stirring. He turned back with the Inspector, while Holmes and I walked slowly across the moor. These people always clear out when they hear of trouble, for they do not wish to be pestered by the police. Not a word more could I draw from him until we were back at the trainer’s house. Therefore he is at Mapleton. He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh. “My dear Inspector, you surpass yourself!” Holmes took the bag, and, descending into the hollow, he pushed the matting into a more central position. On Tuesday evening I received telegrams from both Colonel Ross, the owner of the horse, and from Inspector Gregory, who is looking after the case, inviting my cooperation.”, “Tuesday evening!” I exclaimed. The window, I may add, was not large enough for a man to get through. On the night in question the stable is visited by a gambler hoping to get some inside information on the race but is turned away by a loyal stable boy. Lord Singleford’s Rasper. Silver Blaze favorite?”, “Five to four against Silver Blaze!” roared the ring. It was evening before we reached the little town of Tavistock, which lies, like the boss of a shield, in the middle of the huge circle of Dartmoor. But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought. Colonel Wardlaw’s Pugilist. After the boy is drugged by opium, the horse disappears, and the trainer is found bludgeoned on a lonely moor, suspicion falls on the gambler, but if he is guilty, where is Silver Blaze? It never went better in its life. His wet clothing showed that he had been out in the storm of the night before, and his stick, which was a Penang-lawyer weighted with lead, was just such a weapon as might, by repeated blows, have inflicted the terrible injuries to which the trainer had succumbed. “No, Mrs. Straker. Looks like you're visiting from the US – and that means that it's not allowed to make the “Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” available for download. That is the case as it appears to the police, and improbable as it is, all other explanations are more improbable still. One was found in his purse. But I should like to take a little walk over the moor before it grows dark, that I may know my ground to-morrow, and I think that I shall put this horseshoe into my pocket for luck.”, Colonel Ross, who had shown some signs of impatience at my companion’s quiet and systematic method of work, glanced at his watch. Hunter was obviously under the influence of some powerful drug, and as no sense could be got out of him, he was left to sleep it off while the two lads and the two women ran out in search of the absentees. I was marvelling in my own mind how I could possibly have overlooked so obvious a clue.”, “I confess,” said the Colonel, “that even now I cannot see how it helps us.”. Yellow cap and sleeves. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. A strange thing for a man to carry with him upon a rough expedition, especially as it would not shut in his pocket.”, “The tip was guarded by a disk of cork which we found beside his body,” said the Inspector. “Silver Blaze,” said he, “is from the Somomy stock, and holds as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor. I can say the same for this episode and adaptation. For other versions of the character see Versions of Sherlock Holmes. I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. At the same time I recognize that the evidence is purely circumstantial, and that some new development may upset it.”, “We have quite come to the conclusion that he wounded himself in his fall.”, “My friend Dr. Watson made that suggestion to me as we came down. Every precaution was taken to guard the favorite. In reply to her inquiries, he said that he could not sleep on account of his anxiety about the horses, and that he intended to walk down to the stables to see that all was well. “Surely I met you in Plymouth at a garden-party some little time ago, Mrs. Straker?” said Holmes. Black cap. “Who attends to them?”, “Have you noticed anything amiss with them of late?”, “Well, sir, not of much account; but three of them have gone lame, sir.”. But it falls away towards Mapleton, and you can see from here that there is a long hollow over yonder, which must have been very wet on Monday night. It was, as Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife which is used for the most delicate operations known in surgery. “’Can you tell me where I am?’ he asked. Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion … “Excuse me,” said he, turning to Colonel Ross, who had looked at him in some surprise. He is not at King’s Pyland. Blue and black jacket. John Straker, who is a married man, lived in a small villa about two hundred yards from the stables. And yet I was at a loss to know why. 1894. Sherlock Holmes lebt in der Baker Street 221b, London, einer damals fiktiven Adresse, da zu Conan Doyles Zeit die Baker Street nur bis zur Nr. “My dear Watson, you would confer a great favor upon me by coming. "But one false statement was made by Barrymore at the inquest. It was a poor weapon, but perhaps the best that he could lay his hands on at the moment.”, “Three of them are receipted hay-dealers’ accounts. “I am very glad to have had your opinion, sir,” said he. “No, don’t,” said he; “I shall write to you about it. The latter was Colonel Ross, the well-known sportsman; the other, Inspector Gregory, a man who was rapidly making his name in the English detective service. The fact is that I could not believe it possible that the most remarkable horse in England could long remain concealed, especially in so sparsely inhabited a place as the north of Dartmoor. I was not surprised. “Of course that was why he needed the candle, and struck the match.”. I have also examined every stable and out-house in Tavistock, and for a radius of ten miles.”, “There is another training-stable quite close, I understand?”, “Yes, and that is a factor which we must certainly not neglect. “It was the first link in my chain of reasoning. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. With Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams, Colin Jeavons. Watson, this knife is surely in your line?”. I am inclined now to have a little amusement at his expense. “Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.”. Wessex Plate [it ran] 50 sovs each h ft with 1000 sovs added for four and five year olds. “She was frightened by the earnestness of his manner, and ran past him to the window through which she was accustomed to hand the meals. “We have had a charming little breath of your beautiful Dartmoor air.”. “I never had such a dress, sir,” answered the lady. Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up—with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse’s leg. Where is he, then?”, The Colonel flushed angrily. “Excellent, Watson, excellent!” murmured my companion. Sherlock Holmes 290 Movies, Shows, Shorts. “You consider that to be important?” he asked. “’You are close to the King’s Pyland training-stables,’ said she. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for. Say nothing to him about the horse.”, “And of course this is all quite a minor point compared to the question of who killed John Straker.”, “On the contrary, we both go back to London by the night train.”. “There are several points on which I should like your advice, and especially as to whether we do not owe it to the public to remove our horse’s name from the entries for the Cup.”, “Certainly not,” cried Holmes, with decision. “We don’t want any loiterers about here,” said he. You must know, with your wide experience of turf matters, Colonel Ross, that it is possible to make a slight nick upon the tendons of a horse’s ham, and to do it subcutaneously, so as to leave absolutely no trace. One of them is a letter of instructions from Colonel Ross. “Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse, Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham, Wales, UK. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1892. The production values as is always the case with this series is of top quality with the costumes and sets authentic and the camera shots excellent. His age, she thought, would be rather over thirty than under it. You cannot have forgotten the singular knife which was found in the dead man’s hand, a knife which certainly no sane man would choose for a weapon. They would run a great risk and gain nothing by taking him. As a man of the world, Colonel, you know that men do not carry other people’s bills about in their pockets. “Did the stable-boy, when he ran out with the dog, leave the door unlocked behind him?”. He wore gaiters, and carried a heavy stick with a knob to it. I hoped that the contents of his pockets might help me to form a conclusion. For what purpose? Hullo, what is this?”. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft. A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road. “No gossiping! We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incomprehensible to me. “Undoubtedly. Let us proceed.”. Written by He knows that his only hope of mercy is to produce it safe.”, “Colonel Ross did not impress me as a man who would be likely to show much mercy in any case.”, “The matter does not rest with Colonel Ross. This article is for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. “Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible. She dressed herself hastily, called the maid, and set off for the stables. His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion’s side like a dog with its master. “I thought so. A man’s track was visible beside the horse’s. “This is a very singular knife,” said Holmes, lifting it up and examining it minutely. I really think we have enough to go before a jury.”, Holmes shook his head. “Mrs. “On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o’clock. As we emerged from the sitting-room a woman, who had been waiting in the passage, took a step forward and laid her hand upon the Inspector’s sleeve. You have done me a great service by recovering my horse. Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centers upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night. “And they did so. “The fact was, of course, appreciated at King’s Pyland, where the Colonel’s training-stable is situated. “When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognized Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses. “You have only to wash his face and his leg in spirits of wine, and you will find that he is the same old Silver Blaze as ever.”, “I found him in the hands of a faker, and took the liberty of running him just as he was sent over.”, “My dear sir, you have done wonders. A sudden idea seemed to occur to Holmes, for he leaned forward and touched the lad upon the sleeve. “Ah, that quite settles it,” said Holmes. “I should not have the impertinence to do it again after what you say. “What’s this?” It was a wax vesta half burned, which was so coated with mud that it looked at first like a little chip of wood. “I have not observed the quarter-mile posts,” said I. The opium was added after the dish was set aside for the stable-boy, for the others had the same for supper with no ill effects. Sherlock Holmes has fans of all generations, the stories are just that good. View production, box office, & company info. “There was no wind that night, I understand,” said Holmes. In conclusion, a solid adaptation and well done episode. “Five to four against Silver Blaze! You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. “Why, what is that? “Dear me! Go about your business! In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies. At Holmes’ request I walked down the bank to the right, and he to the left, but I had not taken fifty paces before I heard him give a shout, and saw him waving his hand to me. This other is a milliner’s account for thirty-seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lesurier, of Bond Street, to William Derbyshire. A row naturally ensued. Such was the general situation last Monday night when the catastrophe occurred. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. (1894). “Quite so. Perhaps that is his supper which you are carrying to him. Silver Blaze I have no doubt that this woman had plunged him over head and ears in debt, and so led him into this miserable plot.”, “You have explained all but one thing,” cried the Colonel. He lies under suspicion of having poisoned the stable-boy, he was undoubtedly out in the storm, he was armed with a heavy stick, and his cravat was found in the dead man’s hand. Never have I seen such a change as had been brought about in Silas Brown in that short time. Colonel Ross met us by appointment outside the station, and we drove in his drag to the course beyond the town. But your other difficulties are not so formidable as they seem. New course (one mile and five furlongs). As the drag drew up in the enclosure near the grand stand I glanced at the card to see the entries. That is the advantage of being unofficial. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London. “That beast has not a white hair upon its body. “I have examined the ground very carefully for a hundred yards in each direction.”, “Indeed!” said Holmes, rising. Yellow and black stripes. Finally, an analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium, while the people at the house partook of the same dish on the same night without any ill effect. His bridle is missing, so that Simpson must have put this on. On being arrested he volunteered that statement that he had come down to Dartmoor in the hope of getting some information about the King’s Pyland horses, and also about Desborough, the second favorite, which was in charge of Silas Brown at the Mapleton stables. He had a great interest in the disappearance of the favorite. We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. “We may leave the question of who killed John Straker for the instant, and confine ourselves to finding out what has become of the horse. The girl fled away to the house, but as she ran she looked back and saw that the stranger was leaning through the window. “A long shot, Watson; a very long shot,” said he, pinching my arm. 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