WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.200 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:38.000 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:42.759 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:48.880 Radio Detectors, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com 5 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:54.240 slash Radio Detectors. Well, before we do get started with today's program, 6 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:59.479 I do want to remind you that out on the kennel we have our latest 7 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.920 release, What May the Golden Aids Shine, in which I discuss a big 8 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:10.040 question of why someone who's younger is into the Golden Age entertainment. You can 9 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.920 get that for the kindle, so still available. Is all I needed to 10 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:18.159 know I learned from Colombo and which we take a look at life lessons from 11 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:23.799 the lives and histories of seven great fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes. That 12 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:32.040 one is also available for the iPad and the nook. All right, well, 13 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.599 this is our last episode of Sherlock Holmes. So I'm sorry to see 14 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.680 this go. I think of a pretty appropriate episode. You'll agree once we 15 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:49.079 listen. Here now is today's final episode of the John Gielgood Ralph Richardson series 16 00:01:51.120 --> 00:02:10.639 The Empty House, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories 17 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:16.680 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized Danile, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson 18 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:38.919 and Sir John Gildgard in the role of Sherlock Holmes. It has been my 19 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:44.159 privilege in these past few weeks to come before you with some of the exploits 20 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.680 I shared with my friend Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective the world has ever 21 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:53.159 seen. I had to conclude the last with the account of his death, 22 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.800 as he fell into the great chasm of the Falls of Reichenbach in Switzerland, 23 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:02.199 locked in the arms of his deadly enemy, Professor Moriarty. For three long 24 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.120 years I mourned him, my loneliness deepened to by the loss of my dear 25 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:13.560 wife. To pass the weary days, I tried to interest myself in crime, 26 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.400 as a gesture, so to say, to a Holmes memory, our 27 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.800 old associate, less trade of the yard, was sometimes even good enough to 28 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.080 consult me with some of his problems. And so in the spring of the 29 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:31.000 year eighteen ninety four I came to hear of the singular mystery surrounding the death 30 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:38.000 of the Honorable Ronald Adare murder, doctor Watson, it's stark murder. For 31 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.479 the life of me, I can't see how it was done. Well, 32 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.960 sit down, sit down, let straight. I'm sorry to have kept you 33 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:49.560 waiting. I was seeing a patient. Thank you, doctor. I'm quite 34 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.960 exhausted with it all. I have a drink whisky sourda. Thanks. I 35 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.719 will to tender the truth. Doctor. This is the kind of problem I 36 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.520 wish to heaven I could have talked to mister Holmes about. Ah, we 37 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.400 all wish that the Strade. Is that an APSDA or plenty? Doctor? 38 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:12.199 Thank you, Well, here's your health. Ah. Yeah, I don't 39 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:21.199 suppose what I don't know, just a notion I sometimes have. I mean, 40 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.600 he really is dead, I suppose, mister Holmes, I mean, 41 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.800 well, of course he is. You must have read my account the Strade. 42 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.680 Yes, yes, of course I know. It's just I can never 43 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.920 quite bring myself to believe it. I tell you, I wouldn't be a 44 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.879 bit surprised if I was to walk along Baker Street to night and see the 45 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.160 old shadow on the window blind there. Well, don't let's talk about it, 46 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.920 the Strade. Tell me what your problem is. I thought we might 47 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:48.600 even walk around to the scene of the crime together, doctor, if you 48 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.000 can spare the time. It's a queer business. It's a dear case, 49 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.240 you said, queer. Yes, I've read something about it in the papers. 50 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.759 Found dead, wasn't he. That's right, Honorable Ronald Adare, very 51 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.680 upright and promising, young fellow. Terrible blow to his mother. Tell me 52 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.639 exactly what happened. Well, he was fond of cardjes Se, who never 53 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.600 prayed for very big stakes that he couldn't resist. A bit of a flatter 54 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.079 now and then, no gambling enemies or anything of the card. Shouldn't think 55 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.399 so. Seems to have been very popular. Anyhow, he was playing at 56 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:25.319 one of his clubs the night had happened the bag of Telny is he? 57 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.319 Who's he playing with? Well there was a mister Murray and Sir John Hardy, 58 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.920 and a fellow called Moran, and Colonel Sebastian Moran, mother hardy Man. 59 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:38.560 Well what next to them? Well, younger Dare got back home about 60 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.240 ten. He shut himself in his room. He lives in Park Lane, 61 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.600 you know, one of those big houses, and his room was at the 62 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:49.240 front. His mother got in from a theater about half past eleven went in 63 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:53.720 to say good night to him. She couldn't get any answer. Had the 64 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.680 door forced? Who was locked them on the inside? Doctor, And they 65 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:01.879 found him dead to see all Dublin, mutilated about the head by an expanding 66 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:08.879 bullet. What a dumb dumb you mean suicide? Maybe? Did you find 67 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.720 it a weapon? No, doctor, not a single blissed sign of one. 68 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.920 He was stumped across the table, with bundles of notes and stacks of 69 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.920 coins laid meekly out all around him. Huh. But he couldn't have been 70 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:26.839 shot through the window, I suppose. Well, it seems the only way, 71 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.000 of course, and the window was open. But the minute you have 72 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:32.759 a look, you'll see it was pretty near impossible. Let's go round, 73 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:41.800 shall we? Bye bye. I'll get my boots on now, Doctor. 74 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:46.160 That's the house to feed tore One with the blue railings and the crocus bed 75 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:51.160 in front bears. I see quite a crowd outside, isn't illustrade? Oh? 76 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:56.720 Usual sight servis stroll in the papers, you know. Morbid takes people 77 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.399 ahead, which is the room where he was found up on the same before 78 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.319 up there where one of my members. They're still looking around for clues, 79 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.000 you know, body was taken away some days ago. Quite so. Was 80 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.439 the window open as wide as that when it happened, will be bitter. 81 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.399 We haven't touched it at all. Step upside there with you. I'm a 82 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:24.040 police officer and I'm taking up the old blood in pavement. I suppose the 83 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.519 murderer couldn't have locked the door on the inside and then made his escape through 84 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.240 the window that fade. Not a chance. And you see for yourself there 85 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.759 isn't anything you would climb down by if you dropped there, and it would 86 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:38.439 have been marks on the cloakerspit there I see. You know, you know 87 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.800 this crowd is really intolerable this right, I know. I already must have 88 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:45.920 a card and put around the base. Well aren't you coming in, doctor? 89 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.439 No, I don't think so. You're giving me most of the facts. 90 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:54.000 The clue must lie outside somewhere. Younger. There must have been shot 91 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.399 through the window, that's what I said. But whoever did it must have 92 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.480 been an uncommonly good shot. You've had to stand right back at the roadway, 93 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.160 almost to avoid leaving tracks in the garden and get the young chapman range, 94 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.720 as he said at the table, almost impossible with a revolver at that 95 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.279 distance beside you know there's that cabman shelter just there by the game. They 96 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.639 say there wasn't a sound of a shot that night, made me certain to 97 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.879 have heard it. I tell you, which a pleasant doctor hers is. 98 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:28.439 Indeed, I say, I almost wish like you. That's what I didn't 99 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.319 know? What I mean, it would have been a problem after his own 100 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.639 heart. Oh well, let's get back, I suppose. But if I 101 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:43.360 think of anything kind, get watch with your cook I beg your pardon. 102 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:48.799 I'm afraid i've made you drop your books. You certainly have seated. There's 103 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.519 a prople of books. I'm sorry. I wouldn't have had it happened for 104 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.399 the world. Here you are. I picked him up for you. It 105 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.000 was quite an accident. I should hoop, so I should hoop so indeed, 106 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.679 huh, poor old fellow. And I must give me a bit about 107 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.159 bump Lane too, an old bookseller. I should think, looks it were 108 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:13.639 those thick glasses too much peering over a small print? On myself? You've 109 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.840 been studying poor Holmes methods, less said, I only wish I could choose 110 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.279 them on his case. Doctor, Well, good bye, you'll let me 111 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.559 know if you have any ideas. Yes, yes, I will go by 112 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:30.879 this strad I'll certainly think about it, And so I did. Indeed, 113 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.799 as I walked back home the part Lane mystery, as I'd already decided to 114 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:37.759 call it, if ever I should write an account of it, the first 115 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.759 that I should ever write of my own small efforts in detection. As opposed 116 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:48.440 to Holmes, Adair had plainly locked the door himself. He therefore met his 117 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.240 death from the outside. And yet what shot could possibly have traveled such a 118 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:58.240 distance and still caused so much mutilation? And who had done the deed and 119 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.799 for what motive? I was still pondering when I reached my study, and 120 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.240 I hardly had time to light my pipe. Went to my astonishment, my 121 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.759 maid ushered in no other than the old bookseller with whom I collided In't park 122 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.240 me, well, sir, you're surprised to see me, no doubt? 123 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.200 Well, I most certainly am. How on earth did you know where I 124 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.600 lived? Followed Ye, it's been on my conscience a bit the way I 125 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.039 spoke so rude to you when you bumped me. Oh but really, you 126 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.759 make too much of a trifle. I won't you put your pilot books on 127 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.799 the table and sit down for a moment. You look tired, right enough, 128 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.519 I am sir. You went pretty fast for my old legs. I 129 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.120 had a job to keep up with you. I was thankful when I saw 130 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.399 you turn into the house here and I could come up a bit slower. 131 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.679 Ah. Well, they have a little refreshment. I have some brandy hair 132 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.440 or some whiskey and soda, Thank you, Watson. I rather fancy a 133 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:54.000 little hock and seltzer. Homes su Oh almost, Watson, my dear friend, 134 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.519 Oh, my dear fellow. You sit down, you'll fall quick quick 135 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:05.200 here drink this homes homes. That's a bit better, isn't it. There? 136 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.480 You're all right now? Why, poor old Watson. Sorry, I 137 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.879 have fainted the first time in my life. It was unforgivable of me, 138 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.519 my dear fellow, but I simply couldn't resist him. No, call it, 139 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:24.120 call it it's really come. Yes, really Watson, really and truly 140 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.639 here touch me. I'm flesh and glad. You see the same old homes, 141 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:35.960 but the falls at Ryton Park and the cliff edge. Yeah, how 142 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.279 hard did you ever get out of here? Said back old fellow. Take 143 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.360 another sip of Brandy. Yeah, I'll take my wig and whiskers off, 144 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.080 and then you'll be able to believe it's really me. You're the second person 145 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:52.159 you know who's fainted at the sight of me today. Who else will dear 146 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.600 old missus Hudson back in the old rooms in Baker Street upon my life. 147 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.919 I didn't think she'd ever stopped crying. I've tried pulled her around from her 148 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:05.879 faint it is. He never helped liking your homes for all the confirmed. 149 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.080 That's very nice of you, believe it now. Oh, but when I 150 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:16.519 tell let's trade, when I tell the whole world now now, not yet, 151 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.279 Watson, not yet, this trade perhaps, but no one else at 152 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.279 all. And for a very good reason, I assure you. We are 153 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.399 back in harness, my old friend. How what do you mean when this 154 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.279 very night, provided you can spare the time hard and dangerous task, Watson, 155 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.000 are you still game? Or? Of course that's what I've been longing 156 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.879 for. But I want to know what's been happening homes. You must tell 157 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.279 me a million things, but all in due course, my dear fellow, 158 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.000 we have our work to do. First. You think you'll be all right? 159 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.679 All right, I'm alright, homes a hundred times, and then I 160 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.440 was I'm sorry, how went to pieces like that? Was the greatest compliment 161 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.960 you could possibly pay me. But your escape, your escape, man, 162 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.759 how can you be so calm about it? Oh? That will? That 163 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.840 was also long ago, three years after all? But how did you get 164 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.679 out of that dreadful cassima? Because, my dear Watson, I was never 165 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.279 in it, never, my dear, Oh, I assure you my note 166 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.759 to you was quite genuine. I hadn't any doubt that I was done for 167 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.559 when I stood there to fronting Moriarty with that inexorable purpose in those eyes of 168 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.399 his that you described so vividly. Ah, he'll read my account. Of 169 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.320 course, I congratulate you, my dear fellow, to the most convincing thing 170 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.879 you've ever done. I was even strangely moved by it. But the two 171 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.320 sets of footsteps to the cliff edge and none returning the signs of a struggle 172 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.799 we fought together, of course, there was no doubt about that. We 173 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.639 fought most bitterly. Would you know the curious bypaths of my knowledge, Watson, 174 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.600 I have some acquaintance with baritsu, the Japanese system of wrestling, and 175 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.360 I managed finally to slip out of our friend, the Professor's grippin Down he 176 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.720 went at last, uttering the most horrible scream that I've ever heard from human 177 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.200 lips. Yeah, the devil Holmes. You'll truly are the only one whoever 178 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.480 has always been on the side of the angels, you know, Watson. 179 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.360 At that moment, I suddenly realized what a heaven sent opportunity had come my 180 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.840 way. How do you mean by Arty, wasn't the only man who had 181 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:01.279 sworn my death? There was another, his chief left, who had also 182 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.080 managed to escape the trap which the police had laid for the whole gang at 183 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.120 my instigation. I mean, you deliberately chose to make it appear that you 184 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.679 died so that you could delude this fellow into a sense of false security. 185 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.200 Precisely well, I began to climb up the face of the cliff, but 186 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.360 you couldn't have homes. It was almost cheer. I had an anxious moment 187 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.399 or two out confess, but I did manage it somehow, you know. 188 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.759 I could even hear your cries and see your tragic face when you thought I 189 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.799 was gone. I was there above you on a ledge about a hundred feet 190 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.399 or so up all homes, and you never made a sign with my strongest 191 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.320 card, old friend. If you believe that I was really dead and wrote 192 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.320 on me as you did, then the whole world would believe it too. 193 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.759 And that was why only one person knew the secret that I was safely on 194 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.840 my way to Italy. And who was there? My brother Mycroft. You 195 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:50.960 could trust him at Holmes and not me. Ah, my dear fellow, 196 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.120 I know you are the very soul of discretion, but you could never have 197 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.240 written so vividly and so convincingly if you've really known the truth of the years 198 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.879 of misery. I'm not gone the year. It was the only way I 199 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.480 couldn't even reveal myself to you in the street today because the place was so 200 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.360 crowdy. That might have been spies. Ah, not the cause of the 201 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.360 strade because he was there. No, No, I'll tell the strade this 202 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.120 afternoon. We'll need him dadly for to Night's adventure. What are you planning, 203 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.080 homes, I've been planning all these years. I've been away traveling in 204 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:26.120 Tibet, Persha, France, planning to defeat this last member of Moriarty's game. 205 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:30.240 And to night at last, I think I'm going to get him. 206 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:35.639 Who is he homes? Not yet, Watson, not yet. You'll see 207 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.279 it here enough before the morning. The games are what Watson, old times, 208 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.200 old times gone, the adventure, as you no doubt call it, 209 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:58.480 of the empty house. Can you blame me? If all other thoughts were 210 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:02.799 driven from my head that day? I knew nothing of what Holmes intended, 211 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.960 what wild beast we were to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London. 212 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.559 I forgot everything in my joy and impatience, even the murder of young 213 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.759 Adare, which had been so occupying me. Charlotte Holmes called for me at 214 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.799 half past nine, and we set off on our mysterious journey. His knowledge 215 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.480 of the bypaths of London was extraordinarily. We twisted through a maze of hidden 216 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:29.120 allies and narrow passageways until I was quite bewildered. And always as we went 217 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:34.000 I saw his brows drawn down and his thin lips compressed in the old sardonic 218 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:41.879 smile. I knew so well, ah, Watson, because he's like old 219 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.799 times, being with you again. If you only knew how I've looked forward 220 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.559 to this moment and I Holmes, except that I never thought I'd live to 221 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:49.960 see it. He brought you on another with you, the old armored revolver, 222 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:55.120 of course. And by the way, talking of revolvers in the addare 223 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.080 case, Wait, Watson ran this way, that's right through the empty yard. 224 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:06.839 There where are we, Holmes. You'll completely last night, you'll see 225 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:08.359 in a moment. Ah, yes, that's right, I thought. So 226 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:14.240 along the mus turned to the left, and we're almost there. You still 227 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:18.319 can't tell me what we're after. You know already Moriarty's right hand man, 228 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.200 the last of his whole gang. How does he know you're alive? That's 229 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:22.319 been part of the whole difficulty, my dear fellow, one of the reasons 230 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.720 I've had to lie so low. He saw me that day at the falls. 231 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.519 But what you mean that Moriarty wasn't alone that day after all? Oh, 232 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.319 yes he was. He was quite chivalrous in his own strange way. 233 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.720 But this lieutenant of his must have followed him some way behind to see that 234 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.960 all went well. I caught sight of him for a moment when I was 235 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.400 right at the top of the press of his looking down, and realized that 236 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.079 he could see me climbing up. Good Heaven's hope. Yes, he tried 237 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.240 to dislodge me. Of course, a boulder or two gave me a few 238 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.599 uncomfortable moments, but I managed to get round by another path and elude him. 239 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.240 Did he know for certain that you'd escaped till? I was never sure 240 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.079 until these last few days. And that's what's brought me back to London. 241 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.880 But I don't understand the heart night thought this was the adventure of the empty 242 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:06.680 house. Well, here's the door. I'll use the skeleton key. Ah, 243 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:26.680 yes, that's it. Quietly, my dear fellow, dash, say 244 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:32.279 old Watson. I'm excited, Holmes a bit out of practice. You now 245 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.240 this way through here, this passage way. Careful now, Watson, there's 246 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:41.079 a low doorway. Don't bend your head. Oh that's the netter. Now 247 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.960 wats something brushed my things into spider's word or a strip of wallpaper? Can't 248 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:48.559 you see how it's peeling away? The place hasn't been lived in for years. 249 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.880 I still wish I knew where we were. This is the room, 250 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:59.880 Watson, Nah, then look out of this window. There, God heaven, 251 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.400 Baker Street exactly we're in Camden House, my dear fellow. Don't you 252 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.240 remember it? Exactly opposite our own old quarters at number two hundred and twenty 253 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.759 one B. But what are we doing here? We are here because the 254 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.160 window commands such an excellent view of that picturesque interfice of ours. Come closer, 255 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:21.359 Watson, and just look up at the window of our old sitting room. 256 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:26.240 Cool. I believe I'm almost going to think. Hold up, my 257 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.839 dear fellow, there's no Brandy here. Unfortunately, I thought that even three 258 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.400 long years could hardly rob me at my powers to surprise you. Watson, 259 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:40.000 Holmes, is you up there? It's your shadow on the blind up there. 260 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.279 I trust that age cannot wither me, Watson, nor customs stale my 261 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:47.440 infinite variety. It really is rather like me. Don't you think he's not? 262 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.000 I could swear that you were sitting up there as the real credit belongs 263 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.559 to mister Oscar Mernier, the distinguished sculptor. A bust of me in wax 264 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.240 Watson placed very carefully so as to cast its silhouett up on the window blind. 265 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.200 I'm out of my dead homes, all things beyond me. What does 266 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.000 it all mean? Simply that I have the strongest possible reasons for wanting a 267 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:14.359 certain person to believe that I'm up there when I'm really somewhere quite different. 268 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.240 This lieutenant of monarchic, of course, he knows I'm still alive, and 269 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:18.960 he believes that sooner or later I'll be sure to come back to my old 270 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.880 horns. He knows you're Backley. I'm quite sure he does. I took 271 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.000 pretty good care that he recognized me in the street this morning. Look that 272 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.079 gang of ruffs around the street. They're looking up watching your shadow on the 273 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.599 blind too, aren't they ruffs? You think? Keep back, Watson, 274 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.359 don't let them see you. A great heavens, your shadows moved up, 275 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.920 my dear good Watson. Am I such a farcical bungler as to erect an 276 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.400 obvious dummy and expect the sharpest eyes in Europe to be deceived by it? 277 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:48.319 What is it? Clockwork? Missus Hudson? The good soul crawls forward on 278 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.400 her hands and knees every few minutes and moves the effage around a little bit, 279 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:57.640 a different angle I can face. I'd like to see what's really? 280 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.440 What is it? I do believe he's coming. Always listen the stairs. 281 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.480 Yes, he's coming up, actually into this room. I hardly expectence to 282 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:22.160 a stroke hi black as this listen now about it? Keep your gun ready, 283 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.519 Watson, And yeah, I take this police whistle when I tell you 284 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.039 blow it. What's going to happen? Homes you'll see you'll open that window 285 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:36.880 and then you'll hear something a sound you'll never heard before in all your life. 286 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.759 What a sound that listen to? Sound at all? An explosion that 287 00:21:41.880 --> 00:22:11.799 doesn't explode upon myself? Quiet now? But another word, my god, 288 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:18.599 last sluck? No, sir, I got you, dy watsonnother Wison man, 289 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:23.839 No, come on you it's all right. Oh no, you don't 290 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:26.599 watch the hold on his arm. That's a hard in him. His name 291 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:37.599 is the straight, right, thank you, thank you? List straight. 292 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:41.359 I'd rather fancy everything's quite in order. What is your home's in Heaven's name? 293 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.680 Why, Watson? Just as I told you, the late Professor Moriarty's 294 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:55.119 first lieutenant, who feed luck you clever? Clever quite so, Colonel Journey's 295 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:56.400 end in lovers meetings, as they used to say in the old play, 296 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.640 Colonel Sebastian Moran, my dear Watson, once of her Majesty's Indian Army, 297 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.519 and the best big game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced. There's 298 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:08.200 an interesting weapon you've got there as strains, that's mine. No, you 299 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:12.640 don't. I never seen anything quite like it. Mister Holmes doesn't seem to 300 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.680 have any kind of paradle train, for the simple reason that it's an air 301 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:21.880 gun of a particularly powerful design, made to the order of the late Professor 302 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.240 Moriarty himself. Of course, Holmes, I remember you told me about it 303 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:27.200 three years ago, that harmless bust of mine. Across the way you will 304 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:33.400 have been shuttered by the missilid fires a simple soft nosed bullet. A bust 305 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:38.519 an effigy, you fiend you've already used that if it's at once, Colonel 306 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.839 for a master marksman. Your vocabulary seems to me a trifle limited. I'm 307 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:47.079 really quite surprised that so simple a strategy you should have deceived you. You 308 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:48.880 have not heard the last of me yet, Ols. Indeed, well, 309 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.559 I be ready with Watson, ready, ready for what I rather fancy. 310 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.440 A pipe in our old rooms, my dear fellow. But Holmes, you 311 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:59.359 will climb them in perfect order. My brother, Mycrops, has been in 312 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.640 charge of everything while I've been away, and there are still a few details 313 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:07.960 you may care to hear. Wait hon't if it was only an effigy in 314 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.920 that window, you've no right to detain me. I've committed no crime, 315 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:18.759 no crime attempting to murder, mister Sherlock Holmes. So he's quite correctless trade. 316 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.240 We do need something a little more definite than attempted murder, and in 317 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.160 any case, I think I prefer not to be involved in the matter myself. 318 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:30.799 Well, I must say, you see, instruct those men of yours 319 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.200 to release me at once. Don't worry less, strate your men can take 320 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.200 him away with perfect impunity. Won't you join Watson and me for a little 321 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.839 refreshment across the way. As to the charge, well, mister Holmes, 322 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.480 you must have one, you know, Oh yes, I have, of 323 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:51.319 course, the murder of the honorable Ronald and dare shopped through the open window 324 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:55.839 of his house in Park Lane with an expanding bullet fired less trade from that 325 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.880 very gun you now have in your hand. Goodbye, Moran, Oh, 326 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.680 my best respects to the professor. I feel sure you will meet him in 327 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:10.279 the nether regions. Well, well, the same old room, mister Holmes. 328 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:12.640 You could have knocked me down with a fellow when you're walking into the 329 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:15.640 yard. This afternoon was nothing to her I felt this morning, less said. 330 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.759 I actually fainted, and I was only saying to you, I wouldn't 331 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.079 be surprised to see a shadow on the blind eh ah. But look at 332 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.640 it, my poor old like miss Watson, shot right between the eyes. 333 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.359 I'm afraid. Oh well, all in a good cause. The welcome founds 334 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.880 met Holmes. Is how you knew about the Adare murder? And it was 335 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.400 exactly what I'd been waiting for Watson. As soon as I read in Paris 336 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.480 that Moran had been the young Fellow's partner at cards that night, I realized 337 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.079 he must have been the murderer. But because of the gun was the only 338 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:48.480 weapon in the world which that crime could have been committed at such a distance 339 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:55.319 and without a sound. He'd made his little slip, just as his master 340 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:59.240 did before him. So I knew it was time to come back, and 341 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:03.119 I was on his trail at last. Well. Well, and to think 342 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.119 that you were examining the scene of the crime at the same moment we were, 343 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.440 Hey, doctor, But what was the motive? Holmes? Adair had 344 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.839 partnered Moran more than once. He discovered that Moran was a cheat, threatened 345 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.559 him with exposure and set to work calculating the amounts that he had fortunately won. 346 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:23.720 He planned to return those sums, hence the piles of money lying on 347 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.039 the table, and Morin followed him and shot him from the other side of 348 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.279 the street, beyond the railing days. But I still had to prove it. 349 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.319 I knew if he'd got the chance, he'd turned that gun on me, 350 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.039 and I suspected that he might choose the empty house for his purpose, 351 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.680 as indeed he did. By the way, Watson, I'm afraid that that 352 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.759 gang of roughs in the street who were so suspicious are were really only less 353 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.880 strades, plainclothesmen waiting for our whistle. But do you mean that I was 354 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.960 mistaken the home? It's just this once, my dear fellow. And now 355 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.920 that the race of Moriarty is finally extinct, we are quite free to celebrate 356 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:02.720 the return of Sherlock Holmes. Would you pass me my violin this trade? 357 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:07.559 How splendid that it wasn't damaged in that fire the professor once started in these 358 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.960 rooms. Hey Watson, that's a matter of opinion at home. But we 359 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.839 welcome you back, sir by George. We do. London hasn't been the 360 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.160 same without you. Thank you less trade. I appreciate that very much, 361 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:25.000 Yes, Watson. Nothing like a violin, you know, to soothe the 362 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:40.640 savage breast. You know, I really missed it sorely in Tibit. The 363 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:48.599 return of Sherlock Holmes and a thousand other cases still before him, well well, 364 00:27:48.319 --> 00:28:15.640 well, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of 365 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.640 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been dramatized in You, with original music composed 366 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:25.319 by Sydney Torch. Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of doctor Watson and Sir 367 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:30.799 John Gildgood that of Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers. 368 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:19.759 Welcome back, Well a pretty good hopeful end to the Homes series here, 369 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:26.599 and I definitely think there's some strong merit to the entire way they did 370 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:33.799 this. The ones that of all the Holmes is that we've heard. I've 371 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:42.279 enjoyed this and the Rathbone Bruce versions the best over the radio, and this 372 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:48.599 will definitely be missed. Miss This was just an overall pretty classy production from 373 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:56.799 start to finish, just tremendous, with two fine British actors in the lead, 374 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:03.759 and it's amazing. You know, we've had Sherlock Holmes on the program 375 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.720 for forty four months and it will be someone sadding, you know, as 376 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:15.000 we have something other than Holmes on Thursday, and as we've gone through these 377 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:22.200 Sherlock Holmes series, what's really come home to me is just how really amazingly 378 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:29.079 good the Arthur Conan Doyle stories are. Because you know, I think most 379 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:36.599 folks at one time or another had some issues with some of the other performers 380 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.880 and some of the scripts that were written for Old Time Radio. But if 381 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:45.240 you gave even if you were overall critical of their overall performance, you gave 382 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:52.359 these actors a well adapted Arthur Conan Doyle story, it would be well worth 383 00:30:52.720 --> 00:31:00.799 listening these original stories or classics. And there were some very interesting and interpretations 384 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:06.680 on Holmes in the course of this, and I think I think this was 385 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:08.720 just you know, it was a pleasure to bring it to you. I 386 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:12.480 hope you've enjoyed it. If you've been listening for Sherlock Holmes, I hope 387 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:18.599 you'll stay around for some of the other series. Coming up next week on 388 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:27.680 Thursday, we will have another Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, this one called 389 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:37.200 the Law Special from Escape, and then we will play all three of Edgar 390 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:45.920 Allan Poe's detective stories from various radio productions before we turn Thursdays over to Nick 391 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:51.720 Carter. But definitely we'll miss Sherlock Holmes. Love to hear your feedback on 392 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:56.279 our final Holmes episode listener comments and feedback. We do have one piece to 393 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:04.400 share, this one from over on iTunes Level Time Radio and this app really 394 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:08.720 fits my needs. Thanks so much that will actually do it for today. 395 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:17.400 We will be back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler and the Widow Is Willing 396 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:24.200 Part three, and then join us back here next Thursday for the Law Special. 397 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:29.519 In the meantime, sindry comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot now, 398 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.359 follow us on Twitter or Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends 399 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:37.880 on Facebook, Facebook, dot com. Slash Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 400 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:39.079 This is your host, Adam Grahamson and Off