OpenAI Whisper Test 2

[00:00.000 --> 00:19.020]  A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1 Being a reprint from the reminiscences
[00:19.020 --> 00:25.440]  of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department
[00:25.440 --> 00:34.560]  Number 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes In the year 1878, I took my degree of Doctor
[00:34.560 --> 00:39.160]  of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Neckley to go through the course
[00:39.160 --> 00:42.680]  prescribed for surgeons in the Army.
[00:42.680 --> 00:47.560]  Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the 5th Northumber and Fusiliers
[00:47.560 --> 00:49.760]  as assistant surgeon.
[00:49.760 --> 00:54.240]  The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the Second
[00:54.240 --> 00:56.920]  Afghan War had broken out.
[00:56.920 --> 01:01.920]  On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already
[01:01.920 --> 01:04.120]  deep in the enemy's country.
[01:04.120 --> 01:09.240]  I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself,
[01:09.240 --> 01:14.880]  and succeeded in reaching Kandahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered
[01:14.880 --> 01:17.920]  upon my new duties.
[01:17.920 --> 01:23.640]  The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune
[01:23.640 --> 01:25.480]  and disaster.
[01:25.480 --> 01:29.920]  I was removed from my brigade and attached to the barches with whom I served at the fatal
[01:29.920 --> 01:31.680]  battle of my wand.
[01:31.680 --> 01:37.280]  There, I was struck on the shoulder by a gesile bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed
[01:37.280 --> 01:39.400]  the subclavian artery.
[01:39.400 --> 01:43.380]  I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous ghazis had it not been for the devotion
[01:43.380 --> 01:49.080]  and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack horse, and succeeded
[01:49.080 --> 01:53.400]  in bringing me safely to the British lines.
[01:53.400 --> 01:58.640]  Starting with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed
[01:58.640 --> 02:04.240]  with a great train of wounded sufferers to the base hospital at Peshawar.
[02:04.240 --> 02:09.040]  Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards,
[02:09.040 --> 02:15.680]  and even to bask a little upon the veranda, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that
[02:15.680 --> 02:17.800]  curse of our Indian possessions.
[02:17.800 --> 02:24.360]  For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent,
[02:24.360 --> 02:29.360]  I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be
[02:29.360 --> 02:32.120]  lost in sending me back to England.
[02:32.120 --> 02:37.240]  I was dispatched accordingly in the troopship Orantes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth
[02:37.240 --> 02:43.360]  jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government
[02:43.360 --> 02:48.440]  to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
[02:48.440 --> 02:54.160]  I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air, or as free as
[02:54.160 --> 02:58.840]  an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
[02:58.840 --> 03:04.160]  Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which
[03:04.160 --> 03:09.680]  all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irresistibly drained.
[03:09.680 --> 03:15.160]  There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leaving a comfortless,
[03:15.160 --> 03:20.120]  meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had considerably more freely than I
[03:20.120 --> 03:21.880]  ought.
[03:21.880 --> 03:26.920]  So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave
[03:26.920 --> 03:31.720]  the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete
[03:31.720 --> 03:34.720]  alteration in my style of living.
[03:34.720 --> 03:39.400]  Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and
[03:39.400 --> 03:45.460]  to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
[03:45.460 --> 03:50.960]  On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the criterion bar when someone
[03:50.960 --> 03:56.040]  tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round, I recognized young Stanford, who had been
[03:56.040 --> 03:58.400]  a dresser under me at Bart's.
[03:58.400 --> 04:03.000]  The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed
[04:03.000 --> 04:05.080]  to a lonely man.
[04:05.080 --> 04:10.800]  In old days, Stanford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm,
[04:10.800 --> 04:14.840]  and he, in his turn, appeared to be delighted to see me.
[04:14.840 --> 04:19.880]  In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started
[04:19.880 --> 04:21.680]  off together in a handsome.
[04:21.680 --> 04:27.680]  What have you been doing with yourself, Watson? he asked in undisguised wonder as we rattled
[04:27.680 --> 04:29.240]  through the crowded London streets.
[04:29.240 --> 04:33.160]  You are as thin as a laugh and brown as a nut.
[04:33.160 --> 04:37.640]  I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it by the time that
[04:37.640 --> 04:39.240]  we reached our destination.
[04:39.240 --> 04:43.640]  Poor devil! he said, commiseratingly, after he had listened to my misfortunes.
[04:43.640 --> 04:46.080]  What are you up to now?
[04:46.080 --> 04:51.000]  Looking for lodgings, I answered, trying to solve the problem as to whether it is possible
[04:51.000 --> 04:53.360]  to get comfortable rooms at a reasonable price.
[04:53.360 --> 04:56.400]  That is a strange thing, remarked my companion.
[04:56.400 --> 05:00.360]  You are the second man today that has used that expression to me.
[05:00.360 --> 05:01.360]  And who was the first?
[05:01.360 --> 05:02.360]  I asked.
[05:02.360 --> 05:05.600]  A fellow who is working at the chemical laboratory up at the hospital.
[05:05.600 --> 05:09.320]  He was bemoaning himself this morning, because he could not get someone to go hard with him
[05:09.320 --> 05:13.920]  in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse.
[05:13.920 --> 05:16.320]  By Jove, I cried.
[05:16.320 --> 05:20.400]  If he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him.
[05:20.400 --> 05:23.800]  I should prefer having a partner to being alone.
[05:23.800 --> 05:27.240]  Young Stanford looked rather strangely at me over his wine glass.
[05:27.240 --> 05:31.800]  You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet, he said.
[05:31.800 --> 05:34.600]  She would not care for him as a constant companion.
[05:34.600 --> 05:35.600]  Why?
[05:35.600 --> 05:36.600]  What is there against him?
[05:36.600 --> 05:38.680]  Look, I didn't say there was anything against him.
[05:38.680 --> 05:43.760]  He is a little queer in his ideas, an enthusiast in some branches of science.
[05:43.760 --> 05:46.640]  As far as I know, he is a decent fellow enough.
[05:46.640 --> 05:49.520]  A medical student, I suppose, said I?
[05:49.520 --> 05:50.520]  No.
[05:50.520 --> 05:52.880]  I have no idea what he intends to go in for.
[05:52.880 --> 05:56.920]  I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first class chemist.
[05:56.920 --> 06:02.080]  But as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes.
[06:02.080 --> 06:06.520]  His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out of the way
[06:06.520 --> 06:09.520]  knowledge which would astonish his professors.
[06:09.520 --> 06:11.640]  Did you never ask him what he was going in for?
[06:11.640 --> 06:12.640]  I asked.
[06:12.640 --> 06:13.640]  No.
[06:13.640 --> 06:17.960]  He is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when
[06:17.960 --> 06:19.120]  the fancy seizes him.
[06:19.120 --> 06:21.600]  I should like to meet him, I said.
[06:21.600 --> 06:25.920]  If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits.
[06:25.920 --> 06:29.360]  I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement.
[06:29.360 --> 06:34.880]  I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence.
[06:34.880 --> 06:36.440]  How could I meet this friend of yours?
[06:36.440 --> 06:39.800]  He is sure to be at the laboratory, returned my companion.
[06:39.800 --> 06:43.880]  He either avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from morning till night.
[06:43.880 --> 06:46.960]  If you like, we will drive round together after luncheon.
[06:46.960 --> 06:52.920]  Certainly, I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other channels.
[06:52.920 --> 06:57.920]  As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stanford gave me a few more particulars
[06:57.920 --> 07:01.280]  about the gentleman whom I propose to take as a fellow lodger.
[07:01.280 --> 07:04.640]  You mustn't blame me if you don't get on with him, he said.
[07:04.640 --> 07:09.160]  I know nothing more of him than I have learned from meeting him occasionally in the laboratory.
[07:09.160 --> 07:13.520]  You propose this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible.
[07:13.520 --> 07:17.520]  If we don't get on, it will be easy to part company, I answered.
[07:17.520 --> 07:21.880]  It seems to me, Stanford, I added, looking hard at my companion, that you have some reason
[07:21.880 --> 07:23.840]  for washing your hands of the matter.
[07:23.840 --> 07:27.840]  Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it?
[07:27.840 --> 07:29.400]  Don't be mealy mouthed about it.
[07:29.400 --> 07:34.840]  It is not easy to express the inexpressible, he answered with a laugh.
[07:34.840 --> 07:38.360]  Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes.
[07:38.360 --> 07:40.320]  It approaches to cold bloodedness.
[07:40.320 --> 07:44.600]  I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not
[07:44.600 --> 07:49.120]  out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of the spirit of inquiry, in order to
[07:49.120 --> 07:51.600]  have an accurate idea of the effects.
[07:51.600 --> 07:55.560]  To do him justice, I think that he would pig it himself with the same readiness.
[07:55.560 --> 07:59.960]  He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge.
[07:59.960 --> 08:00.960]  Very right, too.
[08:00.960 --> 08:04.400]  Yes, but it may be pushed to excess.
[08:04.400 --> 08:08.480]  When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting rooms with a stick, it is certainly
[08:08.480 --> 08:11.200]  taking rather a bizarre shape.
[08:11.200 --> 08:12.480]  Beating the subjects?
[08:12.480 --> 08:17.240]  Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death.
[08:17.240 --> 08:19.680]  I saw him at it with my own eyes.
[08:19.680 --> 08:22.400]  And yet you say he is not a medical student?
[08:22.400 --> 08:23.400]  No.
[08:23.400 --> 08:25.840]  Heaven knows what the objects of his studies are.
[08:25.840 --> 08:30.200]  But here we are, and you must form your own impressions about him.
[08:30.200 --> 08:34.880]  As he spoke, we turned down a narrow lane and passed to a small side door which opened
[08:34.880 --> 08:37.120]  into a wing of the great hospital.
[08:37.120 --> 08:41.760]  It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone
[08:41.760 --> 08:47.120]  staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dunn
[08:47.120 --> 08:49.200]  coloured doors.
[08:49.200 --> 08:54.760]  Here the farther end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical
[08:54.760 --> 08:56.360]  laboratory.
[08:56.360 --> 09:01.920]  This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles.
[09:01.920 --> 09:06.560]  Broad low tables were scattered about which bristled with retorts, test tubes, and little
[09:06.560 --> 09:09.920]  Bunsen lamps with their blue flickering flames.
[09:09.920 --> 09:14.520]  There was only one student in the room who was bending over a distant table absorbed
[09:14.520 --> 09:15.520]  in his work.
[09:15.520 --> 09:20.560]  At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure.
[09:20.560 --> 09:22.160]  I found it!
[09:22.160 --> 09:23.440]  I found it!
[09:23.440 --> 09:27.400]  he shouted to my companion, running towards us with a test tube in his hand.
[09:27.400 --> 09:33.000]  I have found a reagent which is precipitated by hemoglobin and by nothing else!
[09:33.000 --> 09:37.120]  Had he discovered a gold mine, greater delight could not have shone upon his features.
[09:37.120 --> 09:39.120]  Dr. Watson?
[09:39.120 --> 09:42.480]  Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Stanford, introducing us.
[09:42.480 --> 09:43.480]  How are you?
[09:43.480 --> 09:47.120]  He said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given
[09:47.120 --> 09:48.120]  him credit.
[09:48.120 --> 09:50.920]  You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.
[09:50.920 --> 09:53.920]  How on earth did you know that, I ask in astonishment.
[09:53.920 --> 09:56.760]  Never mind! said he, chuckling to himself.
[09:56.760 --> 09:59.320]  The question now is about hemoglobin.
[09:59.320 --> 10:02.320]  No doubt you see the significance of this discovery of mine.
[10:02.320 --> 10:05.960]  It is interesting chemically, no doubt, I answered.
[10:05.960 --> 10:06.960]  But practically?
[10:06.960 --> 10:07.960]  Why, man?
[10:07.960 --> 10:11.640]  It is the most practical, medical legal discovery for years.
[10:11.640 --> 10:15.680]  Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test for bloodstains?
[10:15.680 --> 10:17.480]  Come over here now.
[10:17.480 --> 10:22.120]  He seized me by the coat sleeve in his eagerness and drew me over to the table at which he
[10:22.120 --> 10:23.120]  had been working.
[10:23.120 --> 10:28.560]  Let us have some fresh blood, he said, digging a long bodkin into his finger and drawing
[10:28.560 --> 10:31.800]  off the resulting drop of blood into a chemical pipette.
[10:31.800 --> 10:35.680]  Now I add this small quantity of blood to a litre of water.
[10:35.680 --> 10:40.080]  You perceive that the resulting mixture has the appearance of pure water?
[10:40.080 --> 10:43.240]  The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million.
[10:43.240 --> 10:47.840]  I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction.
[10:47.840 --> 10:53.520]  As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals and then added some drops of
[10:53.520 --> 10:55.360]  a transparent fluid.
[10:55.360 --> 11:01.160]  In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour and a brownish dust was precipitated
[11:01.160 --> 11:03.080]  to the bottom of the glass jar.
[11:03.080 --> 11:08.520]  Ha ha! he cried, clapping his hands and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy.
[11:08.520 --> 11:10.280]  What do you think of that?
[11:10.280 --> 11:14.520]  It seems to be a very delicate test, I remarked.
[11:14.520 --> 11:15.520]  Beautiful!
[11:15.520 --> 11:16.520]  Beautiful!
[11:16.520 --> 11:19.800]  The old guacam test was very clumsy and uncertain.
[11:19.800 --> 11:22.800]  So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles.
[11:22.800 --> 11:25.800]  The latter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old.
[11:25.800 --> 11:30.360]  Now this appears to act as well whether the blood is old or new.
[11:30.360 --> 11:34.760]  Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long
[11:34.760 --> 11:37.120]  ago have paid the penalty of their crimes.
[11:37.120 --> 11:39.360]  Indeed, I murmured.
[11:39.360 --> 11:42.560]  Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point.
[11:42.560 --> 11:48.200]  A man is suspected of a crime, months perhaps, after it has been committed.
[11:48.200 --> 11:51.960]  His linen or clothes are examined and brownish stains discovered upon them.
[11:51.960 --> 11:58.120]  Are they blood stains or mud stains or rust stains or fruit stains or what are they?
[11:58.120 --> 12:00.840]  That is a question which has puzzled many an expert.
[12:00.840 --> 12:02.400]  And why?
[12:02.400 --> 12:05.280]  Because there was no reliable test.
[12:05.280 --> 12:11.440]  Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test, and there will no longer be any difficulty.
[12:11.440 --> 12:16.080]  His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed
[12:16.080 --> 12:21.320]  as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
[12:21.320 --> 12:27.200]  You are to be congratulated, I remarked, considerably surprised at his enthusiasm.
[12:27.200 --> 12:30.540]  There was the case of von Bischoff at Frankfurt last year.
[12:30.540 --> 12:34.760]  He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
[12:34.760 --> 12:40.640]  Then there was Mason at Bradford and the notorious Muller, and Lefebvre of Montpellier, and Samson
[12:40.640 --> 12:41.640]  of New Orleans.
[12:41.640 --> 12:44.920]  I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive.
[12:44.920 --> 12:49.920]  You seem to be a walking calendar of crime, said Stanford with a laugh.
[12:49.920 --> 12:52.480]  You might start a paper on those lines.
[12:52.480 --> 12:55.480]  Call it the police news of the past.
[12:55.480 --> 13:00.080]  Very interesting reading it might be made, too, remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a
[13:00.080 --> 13:02.680]  small piece of plaster over the prick on his finger.
[13:02.680 --> 13:07.320]  I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I double with poisons
[13:07.320 --> 13:08.680]  a good deal.
[13:08.680 --> 13:13.000]  He held out his hand as he spoke, and I noticed that it was mottled over with similar pieces
[13:13.000 --> 13:16.480]  of plaster, and discoloured with strong acids.
[13:16.480 --> 13:23.120]  We came here on business, said Stanford, sitting down on a high three legged stool, and pushing
[13:23.120 --> 13:25.960]  another one in my direction with his foot.
[13:25.960 --> 13:30.440]  My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining that you could get
[13:30.440 --> 13:34.840]  no one to go house with you, I thought that I had better bring you together.
[13:34.840 --> 13:39.320]  Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me.
[13:39.320 --> 13:45.000]  I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street, he said, which would suit us down to the ground.
[13:45.000 --> 13:47.640]  We don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope.
[13:47.640 --> 13:50.840]  I always smoke ships myself, I answered.
[13:50.840 --> 13:51.840]  That's good enough.
[13:51.840 --> 13:55.640]  I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments.
[13:55.640 --> 13:57.200]  Would that annoy you?
[13:57.200 --> 13:58.200]  By no means.
[13:58.200 --> 14:02.200]  Let me see, what are my other short comings?
[14:02.200 --> 14:05.720]  I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end.
[14:05.720 --> 14:11.080]  You must not think I am sulky when I do that, just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.
[14:11.080 --> 14:12.080]  What have you to confess now?
[14:12.080 --> 14:15.240]  It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin
[14:15.240 --> 14:16.800]  to live together.
[14:16.800 --> 14:19.040]  I laughed at this cross examination.
[14:19.040 --> 14:24.760]  I keep a bullpup, I said, and I object to rouse because my nerves are shaken, and I
[14:24.760 --> 14:28.920]  get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy.
[14:28.920 --> 14:34.320]  I have another set of vices when I am well, but those are the principal ones at present.
[14:34.320 --> 14:38.720]  Do you include violin playing in your category of rouse?
[14:38.720 --> 14:39.720]  he asked anxiously.
[14:39.720 --> 14:42.760]  It depends on the player, I answered.
[14:42.760 --> 14:46.960]  A well played violin is a treat for the gods, a badly played one.
[14:46.960 --> 14:49.560]  Ah, that's all right, he cried with a merry laugh.
[14:49.560 --> 14:54.720]  I think we may consider the thing is settled, that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you.
[14:54.720 --> 14:55.720]  When shall we see them?
[14:55.720 --> 15:00.160]  Call for me here at noon tomorrow, and we'll go together and settle everything, he answered.
[15:00.160 --> 15:03.480]  All right, noon exactly, said I, shaking his hand.
[15:03.480 --> 15:08.000]  We left him working among his chemicals, and we walked together towards my hotel.
[15:08.000 --> 15:14.160]  By the way, I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stanford, how the deuce did he
[15:14.160 --> 15:17.440]  know that I'd come from Afghanistan?
[15:17.440 --> 15:20.200]  My companion smiled an enigmetical smile.
[15:20.200 --> 15:25.080]  That's just his little peculiarity, he said, a good many people have wanted to know how
[15:25.080 --> 15:26.400]  he finds things out.
[15:26.400 --> 15:28.240]  Oh, a mystery, is it?
[15:28.240 --> 15:30.560]  I cried, rubbing my hands.
[15:30.560 --> 15:31.560]  This is very pecan't.
[15:31.560 --> 15:34.440]  I'm much obliged to you for bringing us together.
[15:34.440 --> 15:38.400]  The proper study of mankind is man, you know.
[15:38.400 --> 15:41.840]  You must study him, then, Stanford said, as he bade me goodbye.
[15:41.840 --> 15:43.360]  You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
[15:43.360 --> 15:46.880]  I'll wager he learns more about you than you about him.
[15:46.880 --> 15:47.880]  Goodbye.
[15:47.880 --> 15:50.160]  Goodbye, I answered, and strolled onto my bed.
[15:50.160 --> 15:53.560]  Goodbye, hotel, considerably interested in my new acquaintance.