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That's Go to Meeting dot 28 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,000 Com slash podcast. Start your free trial. Well, we're gonna get into 29 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:44,960 today's episode of Sherlock Holmes, and we're kind of skipping around because we had 30 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:57,840 we had skipped before and did the night before Christmas episode around Christmas time. 31 00:02:58,039 --> 00:03:00,960 So consequently, we're not going to do that again, and so we move 32 00:03:01,039 --> 00:03:06,479 on to the very next episode of Sherlock Holmes. This one is called the 33 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:12,199 Case of the Iron Box, and this one I think you're gonna enjoy. 34 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,759 I've got email a few weeks back from a listener wondering when we were going 35 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,599 to get to this one. Well, it's here, so sit back and 36 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,240 enjoy the Case of the Iron Box. This episode from the life of Sherlock 37 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:30,520 Holmes will be transmitted to our men and women overseas by shortwave and through the 38 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:38,800 worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. Petree Wine brings you Basil Rathbone 39 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:51,400 and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, 40 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:54,759 the family that took time to bring you good wine. Invite you to listen 41 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,199 to Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared with his old friend at 42 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:04,479 Master, Detective Sherlock Holmes. Well, this is it New Year's Eve, 43 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:09,039 and I wish you could be here with us this evening so we could toast 44 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,159 each other with a glass of Petrie California port. As you know, port 45 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,759 wine has long been a favorite wine for celebrating a happy occasion. That's because 46 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,519 port is a wine rich in tradition, and you couldn't ask for a more 47 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:26,680 delicious port than petre Port. Petre Port is a deep gLing red color, 48 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:30,399 beautiful to look at and wonderful to taste, with a hearty, full flavor 49 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:33,959 that's right from the heart of the great And when you serve petri Port to 50 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,600 your friends tonight or for any time, remember you can serve it proudly because 51 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:55,279 the name Petrie is the proudest name in the history of American wine. And 52 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:58,600 now I'm sure doctor Watson's waiting for us, so let's drop in and see 53 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:01,240 it. Good evening, doctor, good evening. It was about help drop 54 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:05,560 your usual chair. Thank you. That's it. Well did you enjoy the 55 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:10,319 Christmas holidays? Well, I've I've had a whale of a time, thank 56 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,519 you, but I don't think I can face a turkey or immense pie for 57 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,800 at least another year. How about you? Doctor boy? Had a very 58 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,160 pleasant week too, my boy, fotis, visitors and a flattering number of 59 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:25,040 Christmas messages to be answered. I say you got a new pipe? Is 60 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:28,920 that a Christmas present? You pipe? You tobacco pouch and a pound of 61 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,800 my favorite tobacco, all of them sent me from London by old clowns and 62 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,879 a friend of mine to Ian Dunbar, an old client. Huh, well, 63 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,560 do you mean he was one of your patients? Or was he someone 64 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,360 that you and the great Sherlock Holmes help the letter mister bull. As a 65 00:05:42,399 --> 00:05:45,480 matter of fact, it was receiving this gift that reminded me of the story 66 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:48,319 I've decided to tell you tonight, the story in which Ian Dunbar played a 67 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,279 prominent fot and how did it again? The day before New Year's Eve in 68 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:58,040 eighteen hundred and ninety nine. Sherlock Holmes and I are such an opposite corners 69 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,199 of a first cost railver carriage, So we spread towards Edinburgh in the Flying 70 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,079 Scotsman. What's at you? And shall our homes up there? Doctor? 71 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:09,120 It started off as a holiday visit. Mister Bartell, my old friend, 72 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:12,480 Sir Walter Dunbar l asked Holmes and me to spend a few days with him 73 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:17,040 at Dunbar Castle, about twenty miles outside Edinburgh. After we left King's Cross 74 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:23,279 Station, Holmes, his sharp, eager face framed in his dear'stocking cap dipped 75 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:27,399 into the bundle of fresh papers which he'd brought with him. We left Bedford 76 00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:30,680 far behind us before he thrushed the last one of them under the seat, 77 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:40,720 cleaned across and offered me his cigars. Care for the guard? What's new? 78 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,240 Thankfully? I'll stick to the pipe. Flying Scotsman's living up to its 79 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:47,399 name. They're going splendidly, our person greatest fifty three and a half miles 80 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:50,519 an hour. Oh, I haven't noticed the quarter mile post, nor have 81 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,959 I, but the telegraph posts on this line are sixty yards apart. To 82 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,600 the aid of a watch, the calculation is a simple one. What's my 83 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,000 dea for alone? We have several hours ahead of his. Now, tell 84 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,560 me more about Walter Dunbar. I have a feeling that he's in some kind 85 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:08,519 of trouble. Who haven't wanted to talk about him? It's not exacted trouble 86 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,000 homes, which is a strange problem that confronts the Dunbar. The problem it 87 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:17,279 will be settled at midnight tomorrow night. A few years even he is exactly. 88 00:07:17,319 --> 00:07:20,759 But to really appreciate the story, I have to begin by telling you 89 00:07:20,879 --> 00:07:25,920 the death rold Sir Thomas Dunbar, the father of the present baronet. He 90 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,879 was severely wounded at Waterloo, though he managed to last how long enough to 91 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:33,240 get back to Dunbar Castle. The story goes that as he lay there on 92 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:44,399 his deathbed, he told his wife of his plans. Didn't agree with lass. 93 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:47,439 I fetched the baronetcy home from Oloo. What if I fetched the mort 94 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,839 wound as well. I'm not afraid to die. How that niggles me is 95 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:58,639 that I shall never see the child you bear? So what will Scott no 96 00:07:58,759 --> 00:08:01,959 come in here? Eh? Kenny? He was at the death bed of 97 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:05,519 his old friend. Who's there? I don't use Send him more, Doc 98 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:11,120 bright damas it's me Ah, I'm leaving an unborn sound behind me on a 99 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,680 die Now. I don't trust women, or children, or banks for that 100 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:18,079 matter. But the best part of the wealth and gold in the big iron 101 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:24,360 box you'll find under the bed. The money is there. I am something 102 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,399 else for a rainy day. You have to keep that box and trust for 103 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,159 me. Sunday. You can turn it over to my boy on the New 104 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,679 Year's Eve before his twenty first birthday, and he'll be a man and wise 105 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:41,000 enough to know how to use it. Do you understand Sunday light damas. 106 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,320 But supposing your bairn's a girl, a girl, I'll tell you to be 107 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,799 a boy, and we'll name him Walter Aft, my good friend, Sir 108 00:08:50,039 --> 00:09:03,320 Walter Scotty. Interesting story, Watson, And that child, of course, 109 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:05,440 is the gentleman we are going to see now. So Water done that exactly. 110 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,240 And the first baronet was a friend of Sawalter Scott, while his son 111 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:15,399 composed of your acquaintance. Why it's a family singularly rich in literary friendships. 112 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,240 Home continue, I suppose you can guess what happened. Sir Thomas Carefrey drew 113 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:26,440 up a document to specify the new year's eve before the baronet's twenty first birthday, 114 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:33,039 and the poor child was born on February twenty ninth. Oh so coour 115 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,399 Sir Walter is still waiting for his arm box for of gol. He'll be 116 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,399 eighty four next year, and yet legally, with only one birthday every four 117 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:45,519 years in the eyes below, he'll at last be twenty one. Most amusing 118 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,320 situation, though, I'm afraid so Water finds it far from entertaining. The 119 00:09:48,519 --> 00:09:52,879 lawyers must have been extremely scrupulous and abiding by the letter of the documentary. 120 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,600 Sandy Murdoch is dead now, of course, but he too is a great 121 00:09:56,639 --> 00:10:01,120 grandson, William Murdoch, who still handles the Dunbars day. He'll be at 122 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,200 the castle tonight to formally hand over the iron Bob. I'm delighted you accept 123 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,080 the homada the invitation of said Walter. My dear fellow. I've needed a 124 00:10:07,159 --> 00:10:11,679 rest, but I've always loathed two stick to one. This situation may pose 125 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,480 a nice little problem for me. Problem. Yes, I'm reasonably certain that 126 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,120 the agents of water Dunbar will not get his iron box full of gold on 127 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,559 this New Year's Eve there, but we shall see you the love we shall 128 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:39,879 see doctor Watson. I'm glad to see you and mister Holmes here at the 129 00:10:39,919 --> 00:10:43,919 Captain. Thank you, my boy Holmes. This is Ian Dunbar. So 130 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:46,120 Walters, how do you do, mister dun dun I'm very proud to meet 131 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,559 you, mister Holmes. I've heard a lot about you. My grandfather will 132 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,159 be down in a few moments. Let's go into the library, shall well. 133 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,200 I imagine the Walter is quite excited about tonight termony, isn't he? 134 00:10:56,799 --> 00:11:01,519 Wouldn't you be if you'd waited sixty three years too long for an inheritance. 135 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,279 Thank the Lord, I had the foresight to be born on the prosaic date 136 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,080 of August the twenty first. Even if your grandfather's dead, you will be 137 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,200 the next dononet, I take it. Yes, mister Holmes. You see 138 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,519 my father was killed two months ago at Mafficking. Yes, I read about 139 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,120 it in the papers. My boy, I'm gonna sorry, Thank you. 140 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:20,399 Doctor. The opening of the box isn't going to be the only ceremony. 141 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:26,799 At midnight, Dorothy and I are announcing our engagement. Dorothy, Dorothy Small. 142 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:30,120 She and her father are staying here too, My congratulations. Yes, 143 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,279 is indeed here, indeed man too, Thank you. It's been quite a 144 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,480 battle with her father though he's a businessman and isn't impressed with titles when they 145 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:41,080 ad the coompanyed by a suitable income. But when we told him about the 146 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:46,720 inheritance, he relented and gave his consent. Ah, here's Dorothy now, 147 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,440 Dorothy Darling. I want you to meet two friends of mine, mister Sherlock 148 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:54,360 Holmes and doctor Watson. How do you do? How do you do? 149 00:11:54,519 --> 00:11:56,000 Small? How are you, my dear? From what this young man's been 150 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,120 killing us. I gather that congratulations in order thank you. I finally persuaded 151 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:05,440 father that Ian would make a worthy son in law. For a while I 152 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,360 was afraid we'd have to elope for Grett the green leading a cottridge on bread 153 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:13,320 and cheese and law, but Grave the parental rash, just as they do 154 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,600 in the story books. Oh so, Walter, there you are. What's 155 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:20,440 my dear boy? How are you? And this must be your friends? 156 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:28,879 Very well for a young nighber who'll be twenty one at midnight? Oh gentlemen, 157 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,960 may I introduce mister Herbert's I believe that we have congratulated you on the 158 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,759 engagement of your daughter. Hmmm. That was supposed to remain a secret until 159 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:41,360 midnight. The Dunbar box was finally open. Law gonna be gro out you 160 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,279 Herbert. The children are in law and I'm going to settle money on Ian. 161 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:48,879 And it's New Year's Eve. Let's enter into the spirit of the occasion. 162 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:52,639 Promote the glasses. Ian. I've had some bottles of my special pride 163 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:56,200 put out. It's not a liner's port in Scotland, the cream of Dunbar. 164 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:00,000 My father laid the first bottle down the year before it was born. 165 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,879 And the drink of the brew will surely warn the cockers. You have my 166 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,679 mouse waltering already, so will do Where is this lawyer, fellow, young 167 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:11,559 Murdoch. Oh, any moment her. As soon as he arrives, we'll 168 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,720 have dinner and then we'll be ready for the evening ceremony. You're bringing the 169 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,120 famous iron box with him, so Walter. And if he doesn't, they 170 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,360 won't get any dinner homes in past. The glasses are on, my boy. 171 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,320 Ah, there you are, Murdoch. Oh you've got the box. 172 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,320 We see now the party is complete. Oh, let me introduce you. 173 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:31,360 It's Small, her father, mister Small, my grandson Ian, you know, 174 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,879 Sherlock Holmes. Dr Watson. I'm sorry, I'm late, sir Walter. 175 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,919 My train was delayed. Oh that's all right, Murdoch. You're here 176 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,200 and you brought the box. That's all that matters. Here you are, 177 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:45,960 young lawyer, and drink here. I'll help you for it. I must 178 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,080 say. This is our exciting homes, the famous iron box with its inheritance 179 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,120 of gold. And from the size of the box that are round. Yes, 180 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,960 that's an estimated it's cubic content in gold at around five thousand pounds, 181 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,879 not about some perhaps to a business man like mister Small for a windfall, 182 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,720 to an impecuniar Scottish dart, that strong young man, mister Murdoch, I 183 00:14:05,919 --> 00:14:09,440 mean strong home. A box that size full of golden sovereigns would weigh considerable 184 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,600 amount. And yet the lawyer carried it single handed. No, that we're 185 00:14:13,639 --> 00:14:18,120 all assembled, I'm going to proposals. We're still smers off. Yet, 186 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,320 let's drink to the new year. It means a lot to some others. 187 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:28,159 Nineteen We should toast more than just nineteen hundreds through water. We should drink 188 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,559 to the new century that's about to begin. I'm afraid that wouldn't be quite 189 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:39,559 appropriately small to be accurate. The twentieth century won't begin until January the first, 190 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,320 nineteen hundred and one, not nineteen hundred. Of course, that's it, 191 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:48,159 do they. I'm afraid your wedding can't take place some time yet? 192 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,799 Father, What are you talking about? I wrote an article the God in 193 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,000 the other day that said just the same thing as you, doctor Watson. 194 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:58,799 And what's more, it said something even more important. It said that nineteen 195 00:14:58,879 --> 00:15:03,320 hundred is not an ep Yeah, rubbish. Leap pier comes every four years. 196 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:07,240 There was one in eighteen ninety six, then obviously nineteen hundred is one. 197 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,519 I think mister Small may be right. What do you say, mister 198 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:11,600 Holmes, do you know well? I hope no one would bring up this 199 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:16,240 point. It's the little problem I referred to on the train. My dear, 200 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,600 what would remember wolves? For Heaven's sake? Answer? He is nineteen 201 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:22,720 hundred of a leapier. No, I'm afraid it's not, sir Walter. 202 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,120 No, because of a slight imbalance, but otherwise, and be produced in 203 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:31,759 the calendar of the even century years, only those divisible by four hundred are 204 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,200 leap years. In other words, sixteen hundred was a leap yer, the 205 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,600 year two thousand will be a leapyer. But eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred are 206 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:43,159 not leap yers. Then you have no birthday next year, So Walter, 207 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,399 and I'm afraid I can't open the box tonight, and the dunbars won't get 208 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,639 their inheritants. You, my dear, don't marry for a few more years. 209 00:15:48,799 --> 00:15:52,799 I would alive rom Maria pauper. Mister Holmes, he you sure of 210 00:15:52,799 --> 00:15:54,720 your facts. I'm very much afraid that I am, young man. Oh 211 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:58,879 this is terrible. I kind of stun anymore, Anana, don't take it, 212 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:06,480 bear the swaller here here, drink this it. After all, you 213 00:16:06,559 --> 00:16:08,960 only have to wait another four years. Another four years at my age, 214 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,240 young man, at my age? Oh no, I shall never live that 215 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:34,120 long. Hey, what is it? Angus prepared? As soon as miserable 216 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,480 meal home. The Walter's gone to his room. The young lovers a million 217 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:41,960 tiers and small, and the lower murders seem to be positively gloating. Yes, 218 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:45,279 the most depressing atmosphere in which to welcome the new year. But let 219 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,159 us at least make the best of it. I think I'll go and have 220 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:52,200 a talk with Sir Walter and you might get chat. Why not try and 221 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:57,679 cheer up the young folks some of your experiences in India. It's quite NoDEA 222 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,480 join you in the library, call me a few if you want me home. 223 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,640 Ah, there you were, my DearS, all alone in front of 224 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,400 the fire. I'm afraid when not in very good spirits. Oh nevertheless, 225 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,079 I sit down here and join you, if you don't mind. Misery loves 226 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,920 company. You know a very kind doctor. I was just trying to persuade 227 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,759 he and to Elope with me. But he's being most un gallant. He 228 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:26,119 won't even consider it. How can I, Darling, I've got under two 229 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,119 hundred pounds a year of my own right. How could we live on that? 230 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,440 I was counting on the money the grandfather was going to give us to 231 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,359 get me start. Now now I'm as small. A little earlier you've talked 232 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:41,920 to break the green and bread and cheese and love in a cottage. There's 233 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,039 a lot to be said for it, you know. I had to be 234 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:45,759 said for it, yes, doctor, But have you ever tried it? 235 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:51,759 Not literally, my boy, but to married my wife? When I was 236 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:55,359 first married, I had very little money. In fact, my income was 237 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,559 just about the sum that you mentioned, and we were very happy. Bah. 238 00:18:00,599 --> 00:18:03,720 But you have a profession, doctor, Look at me. I've been 239 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:07,359 trained for nothing except to be lead of Dunbar Castle. I can't support a 240 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,599 wife on tradition. But yere, Youngian, you can get some kind of 241 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,359 position. I'm sure here of course. Of course, as a matter of 242 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:17,240 facture I think that Holmes, what is it? What's wrong? The Devil's 243 00:18:17,279 --> 00:18:19,599 worker? Put Watson come with me over and you mister Dunbar, Mister Holmes, 244 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:22,920 that's happened sir Walter, I'm his roman was in darkness, but in 245 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,920 the moonlight I saw two figures struggling by the open casement. One of them 246 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,519 was to Walter. As I entered and disappeared from sight, his attacker pushed 247 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:33,680 him out of the window into the moator. You have an angle away in 248 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,000 the darkness. We just get lanterns and go out to the mote at once. 249 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,640 Though I'm very much afraid, mister Dunbar, that your grandfather is beyond 250 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:51,400 our help. Doctor Watson will be back in just a second, so I'd 251 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,079 just like to remind you that if you want to serve a wine over the 252 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:59,960 holidays that you're sure the ladies will enjoy, Sir, Petrie California Muscatel Petrick 253 00:19:00,039 --> 00:19:03,519 muscateell as a golden wine with a wonderful flavor, the flavor of big, 254 00:19:03,599 --> 00:19:07,640 plump muscat grapes. And you know what a flavor that is. I'm sure 255 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,880 you'll find that Patrick musketell is the favorite wine of all women, just as 256 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,839 petre Port is the favorite wine with men. And incidentally, if you're not 257 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:22,240 sure which to get Petrie Muscatel or petri Port, don't buy one, buy 258 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:26,200 two. Get them both, and you'll be sure to please everyone. Now 259 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,039 to get back to our story, someone had pushed poor old Sir Walter out 260 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:33,119 of his bedroom window and enter the moat below. Isn't that right, Doctor 261 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,240 Watson? Yes, of course we grabbed lanterns as fast we couldn't rush outside, 262 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:41,039 but it was a hopeless cass. The water was eight or ten feet 263 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:44,920 deep, and it seemed obvious that the elderness of Walter wouldn't have a chance 264 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,000 of saving himself if we searched on the thicker bobbing Lenton's the scuming figures in 265 00:19:49,039 --> 00:20:00,599 the frosty moonlight forming a weird im bing a lanternov Sir, can you see 266 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,839 anything harm a thing? I don't see why your friend doesn't call the police, 267 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:07,680 Doctor Watson, accomplishing napping You know them out a chance of finding the 268 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,720 old man alive, Mister Small, he wants to avoid a scandal if possible, 269 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:12,359 for your sake, Sir, as well as the dunbar. A scandal 270 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,799 can't touch me or Dorothy over this. An engagement was never announced, and 271 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:19,319 it's a great Citticarde should think some new blood in your family. It would 272 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:22,839 be a great improvement or being confoundly impretinent, and you are be can found 273 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:29,880 the heart to sir well Holmes, have you given up hope? But Pepe 274 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,640 will never find him in that dragoness and grappling hooks. I have to call 275 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,680 the police. What time is it? So Ian? You know the time? 276 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,880 What did you call me, mister Holmes? So yeah, ye, 277 00:20:40,039 --> 00:20:41,880 sure, yes it does seem a bit premisure homes, but of course you're 278 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:47,559 right. If your poor grandfather's dead, mister Dunbar, you're a baronet now 279 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,240 and the time set in it's it's a quarter to twelve, mister Horn brought 280 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:56,720 out of an hour to the new year. So yan doesn't that that suggest 281 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:00,960 something to real? Yes? Yes it does. So I'm the new baronet, 282 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,400 am I? Very well? Then there'll be no more talk of the 283 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,160 police for fifteen minutes. I want all of you to come back to the 284 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,200 castle with me as the last time of midnight brings out. I shall have 285 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:26,319 a statement to make a statement that I want you all to hear what you 286 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,039 got it over here for home? Something very funny going on. I tell 287 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:33,119 you I don't like the look of it, and I watch some mike to 288 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:34,400 look at it very much. I wish you wouldn't be so des mysterious. 289 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,799 What are you up to? You haven't taken a step yet towards finding the 290 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:44,079 murderer. And I wonder what causes the deeds of perspiration on mister Small's brown 291 00:21:44,519 --> 00:21:48,480 more humans Small, I wonder what causes the singular look of apprehension on the 292 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,119 face of murderch young lawyer. You remember, of course, on my remarking, 293 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,079 how easily he carried the large iron buckers got here, and he took 294 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,440 a strong man to throw the water out of the window, Smatsman, New 295 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:07,240 Years approaching, ladies and gentlemen. In view of our recent tragedy, this 296 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,559 is one New Year's Eve when none of us feels like song and jollity. 297 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,880 But there still remains a ritual duty for me to perform. Mister Murdock, 298 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:19,400 open the iron box please, But I can't do that. It was only 299 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,680 to be open for your grandfather, No, mister Murdock. The phrase was 300 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,880 that it was to be opened on the New Year's Eve before the baronet's twenty 301 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,880 first birthday. I am now the baronet, and I shall be twenty one 302 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,880 next year on August twenty first. Open the box please, mister Murdock in 303 00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:38,599 Darling, have thirty good lad. I hope you think of it. Seen 304 00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:44,839 Murdock open that box very well, but I'm afraid you're in for something of 305 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:52,759 a shock. All right, scuty. The box is empty except for a 306 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:55,559 sheet of notepaper in the bottom. What's the meaning of this murder? Read 307 00:22:55,559 --> 00:23:00,079 that paper, severe and you'll understand. I owe you or thousand sovereigns. 308 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:07,119 And it signed Alexander Murdock on behalf of murder and murder Lawyers, you'd better 309 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,680 explain this. It's the family skeleton. Seren had notice signed them a great 310 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,400 grandfather, the one that witnessed the original deconcern in the box. As soon 311 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,240 as the water was born on that February of twenty ninth, my great grandfather 312 00:23:17,279 --> 00:23:19,359 realized the money wouldn't have to be produced for eighty four years, and so 313 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,960 he stole it. He borrowed it. He always intended to pay it back, 314 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,200 but he was never able to. When he died, he told my 315 00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:29,119 father of his secret. My father in turn told me, We've always planned 316 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:30,599 to put back the money, Seren, but we've never been able to. 317 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,319 This is daylight robbery. You could prosecute me on the firm still in business. 318 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:37,880 You can ruin them. You can sue them for every pery they have. 319 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,599 Mister small, you've already shown a marked aversion to my family. I 320 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,400 suggest you allow me to handle their affairs. Well, now tell you, 321 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:49,920 Daddy, till your row. No one's going to their room. No one's 322 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:55,039 leaving here until the police arrived. I'm convinced that one of you murdered my 323 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,160 grandfather tonight. If you ask me, it's obvious who that someone is. 324 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,279 Who doctor? What's you? Mister murder? You came here panting to kill 325 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:04,119 Pearl's Walter because you never intended to open that box. You thought that your 326 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,480 secret would die with him. That's a lie. I was going to tell 327 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:10,160 him everything and then asked for time to pay the money. I didn't kill, 328 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,039 of course he didn't. There's your murderer, You your sophian father. 329 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,359 What are you saying? I'm saying that he and the murderer he saw that 330 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,519 the box wasn't going to be open for another four years. He realized how 331 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:22,799 the money couldn't marry Dorothy, so he killed his grandfather and then order the 332 00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:26,599 box open. You're trying to cover yourself. You pushed grandfather out of that 333 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,359 window tonight. You thought that if he died, the box would never be 334 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,279 opened, so Dorothy couldn't marry me. You can't, gentlemen, upon my 335 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,720 soul. Holmes, you seem remarkably calm. I'm mada, Watson. I 336 00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:42,200 must say, I'm absolutely fascinated by listening to three people accusing each other of 337 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:47,920 murder, and each of them producing perfectly sound motives. It's a remarkable example 338 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,160 of the dangers of reasoning from motive alone. We should profit by experience, 339 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,480 Watson. Mister Holmes, how can you be so calm? There's a murderer 340 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,279 in This is getting a little out of hand. This small let's conclude it. 341 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:04,400 You're come out now. See it's moving a happy New Year to your 342 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:10,480 grandfather. So what how am I soon going? What kind of a game 343 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:12,319 have you been paid? It's a bunny game that Holmes and I invented. 344 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,920 You might call it forcing the issue. I was determined to have the box 345 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,920 open before the next four years, wor out whilst there was still alive to 346 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,079 look inside it. But the prickery of your family murder has made me a 347 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,720 very unhappy mass or Water. I should pay back the money in a few 348 00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:29,039 years. I swear I will be too late to do me in a good 349 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:32,880 but I'll take care of the Dean gets it half a mind of prosecute, 350 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:36,799 Grandfather. The money isn't important now that you're all You were counting on it 351 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,240 just the same, my boy. So that you got married Dorothy, I 352 00:25:38,279 --> 00:25:41,759 know she'll never marry a pauper. I will allow it. When I'm twenty 353 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:45,319 one. You can't stop me, father, and I am going to marry 354 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,799 Ian me quiet. What happened is a very unsavory business. I think that 355 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,359 you owe us an explanation of your behavior tonight you tell him, Holmes, 356 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,960 I fancy a wee drop a crim of dunbar. Watching your search from a 357 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,720 body in the motor has made me The explanation is a very simple one, 358 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,880 ladies and gentlemen. When you arrived here tonight, mister Murdock, I knew 359 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,519 from the way you handled the box that it could not contain the sum of 360 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:11,359 gold it was supposed to. And so you suspected Paud and devised a plan 361 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,880 to post the opening of the box. Yes, and sir Walter was an 362 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,799 eager conspirator, of course I was. Ian is twenty one next August. 363 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,599 Supposing supposing I had died after he came of age and before my next birthday 364 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,759 four years hands, the box would never have been opened, and so we 365 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:29,240 invented the fake murder story. By the way, Ian, I must congratulate 366 00:26:29,279 --> 00:26:33,279 you for grasping the possibilities of the situation so speedily. If you hadn't demanded 367 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:36,519 the opening of the box, the Murdoch's secret might still be a secret the 368 00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:38,079 c plan home. Is it too bad that it had to have such a 369 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,039 miserable ending. I'm not sure that we have finished for the matter. And 370 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,839 mister Murdoch, Yes, mister Holmes, you would say that your family took 371 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,559 four thousand pounds from that box. Yes, mister Couriers, I would have 372 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:52,640 sworn from its size that it would hold closer to five thousand. And in 373 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,480 your account of the legend, Watson, you told me that Sir Thomas Dunbar 374 00:26:56,039 --> 00:27:00,079 stated of his deathbed that he had put something else in the miss something for 375 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,359 a rainy day. Did the Murdocks find that extra something, No, mister 376 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,079 Holmes, they found nothing but the gold, and that's very odd. I 377 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,359 can't take a closer look at that box. I've been on mind. Since 378 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,160 this seems to be a night of telling secrets, I think you might as 379 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:18,359 well know father that if you don't give your content with such thing at my 380 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:22,160 revolution, young middy in but I had little people have been necessary. What 381 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,160 do you mean? Home? Permit me to show you all the treasure of 382 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,160 the dun Bars. What are your pound? Home? See something for a 383 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,440 rainy day that old Sir Thomas spoke of. You. See, since the 384 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:34,960 cubic contents of the box obviously differed from my calculations, I deduced the existence 385 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,559 of a false bottom, I was correct, and in that space I found 386 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,759 this. It's a manuscript. Quite so, the manuscript of the book. 387 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,440 Look at the title page and see the author's name, history of the Dunbar 388 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:55,440 family. I saw Walter Scott. I think so, Walter, that an 389 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,880 original and unpublished manuscript by your distinguished namesake will prove worth several times to go 390 00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:02,960 that is missing from that box. You have saved the day for his homes, 391 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,319 My boy, God bless you. Oh oh, this has been as 392 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,000 strange a new year as ever I knew, but it's turned out to be 393 00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:15,559 a bunny one thanks to your homes. Well fill up their glasses we're going 394 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,000 to drink a toss to the new year. Yes, Sir Walter, this 395 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,960 is really a happy occasion, and let's complete it by singing the traditional song 396 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,960 of the season. All aang signed. And in this case when we sing, 397 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,720 should old acquaintance be for good? I feel that in our hearts we 398 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,000 should be thinking of Sir Walter Scott. We died over sixty years ago. 399 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:48,480 He's made us all very happy here tonight, sure love. Oh God, 400 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,359 well, doctor, that turned out to be a very happy new year for 401 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,839 all concerns. Here's that one new year that I'll never forget. Well, 402 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,640 I sure hope you'll always remember this one too. Oh there's a second, 403 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,960 my boy, that calls for class report. Fine a world to a to 404 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:34,119 a happy new year, my boy, for you and for our many friends 405 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:41,079 listening in and to you, doctor. That's good, doctor, this has 406 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:47,279 indeed been a pleasant association for me. You're the best storyteller I've ever known, 407 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:49,920 and the Patrie family makes the best wine I've ever tasted. I hope 408 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,440 that, just as they've been making wine for generations in the past, the 409 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,480 Patrie family will continue to make fine wine in the future. Mister Boutell, 410 00:29:57,559 --> 00:30:02,599 I know that you all always be here to tell us just how good that 411 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,000 Petty White is well. I hope so, doctor, and I hope you'll 412 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,200 always be right here beside me to tell another swell story about mister Incidentally, 413 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,799 Doctor, what new adventure are you planning to tell us next week? Next 414 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:17,000 week, mister Bartell, I'm going to tell you a weird story. It 415 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,680 starts for the series of murders on Hampstead Heath and then with a battle to 416 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:27,079 the death in the Burning Waxworks. I call it the Strange Case of the 417 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:36,319 Murderer in Wex The Night. Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by Dennis Green and 418 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:40,279 Anthony Boucher and was suggested by an incident and this Arthur Conan Doyle story. 419 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,960 The Silver Blades music is by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathburn appears through the courtesy 420 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,039 of Metro Goldwyn Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where 421 00:30:49,039 --> 00:31:03,240 they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petrie Wine Company of 422 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:07,359 San Francisco, California invite you to tune in again next week, same time, 423 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:18,400 same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This 424 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,400 is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family for a solid hour of 425 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,880 exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these same stations at eight 426 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,599 o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes. This is the Mutual 427 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,400 Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Well, between this episode and the night before 428 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:45,920 Christmas, they definitely ended nineteen forty five on a hotot with a very with 429 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,720 a very pleasant ending, and they were doing some stuff with dates. It 430 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:57,680 was kind of interesting. I don't know whether they quite had the law ride 431 00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:04,279 on that twenty first birthday thing. I know we have some I guess they 432 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:10,160 would call them barristers in the audience, but I don't know if they're experts 433 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:15,640 quite in that area of law. But actually an amazingly happy ending. Given 434 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:21,200 the way most of the detective shows end up, no one could be too 435 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,079 dissatisfied with the outcome. All right, Well, we do have a couple 436 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:30,440 comments to get to Timothy rights in regarding the scandal in Bohemia, one of 437 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,960 my favorite Sure Locke home stories. And Adam does a great job presenting these 438 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,039 old time radio shows. To a new audience. And then we also have 439 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:44,960 this one here. Thanks Adam for bringing us these great detective radio programs. 440 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,480 Johnny Dollar and Sherlock Homes are my favorites. Looking forward to following your podcast 441 00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:52,480 for many years to come from Julia and then just a simple great show. 442 00:32:52,559 --> 00:32:57,319 Well, thank you so much for the con comments, and I encourage people 443 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:02,119 to cast their votes on podcast Dowling gotta comment. 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