WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:35.039 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.119 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.320 to me Box thirteen a Great Detectors dot Net, Follow us on Twitter Radio 4 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:49.520 Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com Slash 5 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:56.320 Radio Detectives. I received an email from Joan who mentioned that she purchased All 6 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:03.039 I Needed to Know I Learned from Colombio audiobook in the iTunes Store, and 7 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.719 I'm glad we're able to do that. It's been available as an ebook for 8 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.400 some time, but not everyone has ebook readers, and I know a lot 9 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:17.560 of people enjoys audiobooks. 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Ladies and gentlemen. I think I may have shown 19 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.360 in the course of these narratives of mine, but the exploits of my friend 20 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:46.080 Sherlock Holmes ranged from affairs of the humblest order to matters concerning the very highest. 21 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:53.159 In the land of the letter. There are many which perhaps can never 22 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:59.680 be true for reasons of diplomacy or even scampbell. And in those that can, 23 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:06.319 dates and names sometimes must be disguised, even now, particularly in the 24 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:16.919 unusual adventure which I have called the Second State. Oh, mister Holmes, 25 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.960 well, Missus Hudson, you seem a little over order, if I may 26 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.400 say so. Oh, it's the gentleman, sir, the two gentlemen to 27 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.199 see you waiting downstairs. Sir, Well, we've seen gentlemen before, Missus 28 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.360 Hudson. Yes, our lives would hardly be economically possible without our visiting clients. 29 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:38.039 But mister Holmes, doctor Watson, Sir, in Baker Street, my 30 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.120 humble Homecome, come, missus Hudson, Not the Prince of Wales, not 31 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.439 from off, Sir, it's the Prime Minister, sir, the Prime Minister 32 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:50.719 of England. Sir. Well, well, my dear Holmes, your dressing 33 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.159 gown, oh here, take this, take this, give me my jacket, 34 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.319 my dear fellow. Yes, show him up, Missu Hudson, show 35 00:03:55.400 --> 00:04:00.199 him up. He mustn't keep the Prime Minister waiting. So into our humble 36 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:05.680 sitting room came those two great men, Lord Bellinger, the Premier, and 37 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:13.400 his companion, the Secretary for European Affairs, the right Honorable Trelawney Hope. 38 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.360 So, gentlemen, I take it I may have the honor to be of 39 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.279 some service to you. You are our only hope, mister Holmes. The 40 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:24.079 Prime Minister suggested you at once the moment I told him of by dreadful loss. 41 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.160 It was impossible for us to go to the police at full loss, 42 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.720 sir. Indeed, yes, to inform the police would be to inform the 43 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:35.199 public, and that is what we particularly desire to avoid. An important state 44 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:41.399 document is missing mislaid while in mister Hope's possession. And it is of such 45 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.519 importance that peace or war may hang up on the issue, I understand, 46 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.480 my lord. Now I should be obliged if mister Hope would kind of tell 47 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:53.519 me the exact circumstances under which this document disappeared. Of course, sir, 48 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:59.040 But this gentleman, your companion, doctor Watson, is in my confidence in 49 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.319 everything I undertake. Indeed, it is really almost impossible for me to embark 50 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.360 upon a case without even you can rely upon his discretion implicitly till the very 51 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:10.680 utmost gentleman, I promise it very well. Then it's a letter, mister 52 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.879 Holmes, I can tell you that it's a letter from a certain foreign potentate. 53 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.839 Mister Holmes, let us leave its own quite so for the moment at 54 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.839 least. Well, when was it received? May I ask? Six days 55 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:26.879 ago? It was so important that I've never even left it in my safe. 56 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.519 I've taken it across each evening to my house in Whitehall Terrace and kept 57 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.439 it in a lock dispatch box in my bedroom. It was there last night. 58 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.959 You're certain of that, quite certain. I opened the box while I 59 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.680 was dressing for dinner. And saw it there this morning it was gone, 60 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.360 the box itself, no, only the letter. My wife and I are 61 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.800 both light sleepers, mister Holmes, were both prepared to swear that no one 62 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:53.040 could have entered the room during the night, And yet the paper's gone. 63 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.079 I faced, ruin, ruin. What time do you dine, mister Hope 64 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.600 Halpas seven? And how long was it before you went to bed? My 65 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:02.879 wife had gone to a theater. I waited up for her. It was 66 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.360 half past eleven before we retired to our room. Yes, then for four 67 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.240 hours the box had lain unguarded. No one is ever permitted to enter that 68 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.839 room except two trusted servants who are beyond suspicion. Who else knew of the 69 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.160 existence of that letter? No one in the heart, not your wife knows. 70 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.560 I said nothing to her until I missed the paper this morning. Is 71 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.600 there anyone else, my Lord in England who could possibly know of the existence 72 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.920 of this letter? Only the members of the Cabinet, mister Holmes, but 73 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:33.040 all under the pledge of secrecy which attends every Cabinet meeting and abroad. I 74 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.639 believe no one saved the man who wrote it, And may I ask his 75 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:43.600 name? Mister Holmes. The envelope is a long, thin one of a 76 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.519 pale blue color. That is all I think that you need to know. 77 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:51.079 Well, I'm quite aware that you are two of the busiest men in the 78 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.920 country, and in my own small way, I have a good many calls 79 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.120 upon my time. I regret exceedingly that I cannot help you in this matter. 80 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.319 Wotton, would you kind he ring the belt home? How dare you? 81 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:08.720 I am not a m Very well, we must accept your terms. 82 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.560 I suppose no doubt. It is unreasonable of us to expect you to act 83 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.759 without our entire confidence. Thank you, my lord. Pray sit down again, 84 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.759 Watson Ah. Now, then, gentlemen, the letter is from a 85 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:25.199 certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent colonial developments in this country. 86 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:30.560 It was written hurriedly and in anger on his own responsibility entirely, and 87 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.279 his ministers know nothing about it. You mean, his Highness, the Crown 88 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.680 Prince of mister Holmes. Very well, sir, let me write it down 89 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:43.240 on the slip of paper. Am I correct? My lord? Quite correct? 90 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.680 And you'll see at once the applications if that document should fall into the 91 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.319 hands of any other chancellery in Europe. A breach would be made between this 92 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.319 potentate in our country, with fatal consequences. You must find it, Holmes, 93 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.800 great heavens, you must, sir. My whole future depends upon it. 94 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.000 I shall do my best to help you, mister Hope. I can 95 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.120 do no more. But if the theft occurred last night before you retired, 96 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.120 as it must have done, the paper must at this moment be speeding on 97 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.360 its way to the continent as fast as steam can take it. My lord. 98 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.319 Well, mister Holmes, if I may presume to advise you, Yes, 99 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.360 yes, there's only one course open to you. What is it, 100 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.879 sir? Prepare for war, my lord. I shall do what I can, 101 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:41.840 but at least prepare for war. Good day, gentlemen, they've gone 102 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.399 well well, Holmes, who behave most discreetly, my dear fellow. I 103 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.720 was so proud of you, your whole air detached interest of silent helpfulness. 104 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.559 You know you've missed your calling, my dear Watson. You ought to have 105 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.360 been a diplomat. Oh, it's no laughing matter, Holmes, you thinks 106 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.440 not, And it's really is a most serious affair. Alarmingly so about the 107 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.919 situation, though desperately serious, is not quite hopeless, I believe. What 108 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.720 do you intend to do? There are several foreign agents, big names among 109 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.759 the international spy ring. If one of them should be missing, especially if 110 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.720 he's disappeared since last night, we shall then have some indication of where the 111 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.320 letter may have gone. Ah, yes, yes, But if none of 112 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.720 them is missing, then we can take it that the letter hasn't left the 113 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.120 country yet. That would be something of a miracle. And in that case, 114 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.639 well I might be able to get it back. After all, I 115 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.279 have the whole British treasury behind me. If it's on the market, I'll 116 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.039 buy it back, even if it means another penny on the income text. 117 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.919 But who are the likely agents? Only three that are big enough, Oberstein 118 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:54.799 Larotier and Eduardo Lucas. Well, Oh, my dear fellow, you look 119 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.120 so white. What on earth's the matter? Heaven knows. You've astonished me 120 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.720 more than once with some spectacular announcement. Now it's my turn. Well Watson, 121 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.360 Eduardo Lucas Holmes, you said Lucas, I think here is of course 122 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.720 at the dolphin Steed exactly who won't see Lucas homes? And why not pray 123 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:16.799 it was murdered in his house last night, Lucas, you don't mean it. 124 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:22.360 I was reading about it before our visitors arrived. Eduardo Lucas, the 125 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:28.559 well known society flemmer and distinguished amateur tenor murdered most brutally by a knife in 126 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:33.120 the heart. What an amazing coincidence, homes coincidence, man, great heavens, 127 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.919 you can't really mean it, Eduardo Lucas. Did I tell you watson't 128 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.879 Holmes home? Mister Holmes? Well, well, well, what's the matter, 129 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.759 missus Hudson? Do I, sir, twice in one day to think 130 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.080 that my humble room on earth? What is it this time? Woman? 131 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.360 The lady Hilder, Sir? Who did you say? The lady Hilder for 132 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:00.960 Lawny home, mister Holmes, the wife of the gentleman with Lord by Holmes. 133 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.679 You're dressing gun, you're dressing gun? I jacket, Miss Hudson, 134 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.720 please. And a moment later, our modest apartment, already so distinguished that 135 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.879 morning, was further honored by the entrance of the loveliest woman in London, 136 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.120 nay in the world. I'd often heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter 137 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.279 of the Duke of Belminster, but no description no contemplation of a lifeless photograph 138 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:28.000 had prepared me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful modeling of that 139 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.320 exquisite head. And I am not, I think without taste as a judge 140 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:37.080 in such things. Yet that morning the lovely cheek was paled with emotion. 141 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.799 The eyes were bright, but with the brightness of fever of terror. Mister 142 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:45.960 Holmes, I beg you. Has my husband been here? Yes, madam, 143 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.480 I beg you. Implore you to say nothing to him of this visit 144 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.600 of mine. Lady Hilda, you placed me in a very delicate position. 145 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.559 Mister Holmes. There was a most deplorable occurrence at our house last night, 146 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.080 or you must know. But since it was a political better, my husband 147 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.960 refuses to take me into his complete confidence. Indeed, what was that missing 148 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.440 paper? What was it? Madam? That is something I cannot answer. 149 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:11.679 If your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark, it is hardly 150 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.639 for me to tell you. I am pleasured to professional secrecy. Well tell 151 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.879 me at least then, for Heaven's sake, is my husband's professional career likely 152 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.639 to suffer through the incident. Yes, I fear so, mister Holmes, 153 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.639 from something that my husband said when he first discovered the last this morning. 154 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:35.440 I please go on. I understand the terrible public consequences might arise from the 155 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:41.759 loss of this document. Perhaps even you said so, Lady Hilda. It 156 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.639 is not for me to deny it. Won't you tell me? Mister Holmes, 157 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.320 I implore you, what was that missing paper? Then? I must 158 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.279 take up no more of your time. I can't blame you if you feel 159 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:01.200 you can't speak more freely. The matter must have been grave. Indeed before 160 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.159 you were ever consulted, and I'm sure you won't think the worst of me 161 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:13.399 for wanting to share my husband's anxieties, even against his will. I can 162 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.879 only beg you once again to say nothing of my visit. It would only 163 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:26.600 worry him the more. Good day. Well, well, wasn't wasn't that 164 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.519 extraordinary? The fair Sex Watson that is your department? I think yes, 165 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.399 when you finished gazing out of the window to get a last glimpse of our 166 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.320 elegant charmer, perhaps you will be kind enough to tell me what you think 167 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.960 she came for. Shelly Sully. Her own statement was clear enough, Holmes, 168 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.679 anxiety was very natural, yes, no doubt. Yet you must have 169 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.759 observed how very prettily. She maneuvered her chair so as to keep her back 170 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.399 to the light. She didn't want us to read her expressions. You said 171 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.360 the same about the woman from Margaret who came to see us a month ago. 172 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.000 It turned out that she wanted because she had no powder on our notes. 173 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.679 True. True. The motives of women are certainly inscrutable. It's difficult 174 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.639 to build upon such quicksands. Their most important decisions may depend upon a hairpin 175 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:15.639 or a pair of curling tongues. Well, good morning, Watson, what 176 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.000 are you going home? Oh? Just for a little while to good Dolphin 177 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.480 Street. I think our friendless trade of the yard is sure to be there 178 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:28.679 by this time. Eduardo Lucas murdered. There lies the solution, Watson. 179 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.600 Do you stay on guard here, my dear fellow, and receive any further 180 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:37.240 distinguished visitors who may honor our humble abode Whilst I am away, I'll join 181 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.960 you for lunch, Watson, cutlets and green peas. If you could think 182 00:14:41.960 --> 00:15:11.360 of that all day and the next day. Holmes was in a mood which 183 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.679 some might call taciturn and others morose. He ran out and ran in, 184 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.440 smoked, incessantly played his violin, sank into riverlies, devoured sandwiches at irregular 185 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:30.240 hours, and hardly answered the casual questions I put to him. I felt 186 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:35.440 a sense of impending doom as I watched London from our window, going about 187 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.759 its busy duties. I reflected that any moment the newsboys would cry havoc, 188 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.679 and the flower of our youth go marching off to war. As to the 189 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.759 murder of Lucas, that remained as much a mysterday as the theft of the 190 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.799 document. He'd been stabbed to the heart with a curved oriental dagger, a 191 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.159 trophy that hung on the wall of his room. It seems that nothing had 192 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:03.519 been stolen. An examination of his papers disclosed him as a keen student of 193 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:11.000 international politics. That was all. Then suddenly, well we've solved it, 194 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.600 mister Holmes. Really, less Trade, have you? Why not? Eh? 195 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.759 We have our methods to you know, he means the murder, Holmes, 196 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.840 only the murder. Oh more, Mistress, mister Holmes, what's in 197 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.039 the wind? Nothing? Nothing, Watson's just wool gathering my deal, estate 198 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:30.039 or Sally Holmes. Don't mention it, my dear fellow, sit down, 199 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.480 won't you? Less Trade? Have a cigar. Oh no, sir, 200 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.559 I won't, if you'll forgive me. I was going to suggest we went 201 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.679 round there to Godolphin Street. There's a little something that might interest you. 202 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.600 Ah, well, what's happenless trade, I think you said just now that 203 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:48.440 you've solved it. Well, as near as makes no matter, we'd a 204 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.000 telegram from the Paris police. Do you see? Seems this Lucas fellow has 205 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:56.159 been a bit of a dog in his time, very handsome, kind of 206 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.799 chap and so forth. He's been living a double life. It seemed he 207 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.440 had a wife in Paris or your department again, my dear Watson, creole 208 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.079 woman as a matter of effect for their hot blooded creoles. Yes, you 209 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.160 know what women are like, doctor Watson. Well well perhaps, well let's 210 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.400 tray what's happened. Well, he'd been going at a bit in London, 211 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.960 you know, one way and another, so we rackon. She got jealous. 212 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.480 According to the parish fellows, she's gone quite mad since Tuesday, and 213 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.559 it was established that she had been in London on the night of the murder. 214 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:32.319 She was seen near Godolphin Street. Yes, yeah, it could only 215 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.119 have been some kind of coincidence like that. Otherwise the thing would have been 216 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:40.400 public property by this time. What is it, mister Holmes, strikes me. 217 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:44.240 Your mind's hardly on the business. I don't thought it would have appealed 218 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.759 to you. Nothing, let's tray and nothing at all. What was it 219 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:48.960 you said just now might interest me over at Lucas's house? Ah? Yes, 220 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:53.119 the one small detail, mister Holmes, nothing very important, you know, 221 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:59.079 just a bit freakish. We'd best go round to the house and i'll 222 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:03.400 show you you two. Doctor, Eh, it's rather in your line as 223 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.319 well. Oh really, Oh of course you know. I might even call 224 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:12.200 it the mystery of the sick and stain, gentleman. The murder solved, 225 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:19.480 but there's still a mystery of the sick and stain. Eh. Come in, 226 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:33.960 let's round the Cadolphin Street now then, mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, 227 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:37.960 this is the very room you see him where he was murdered. Ah. 228 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.359 Indeed, now look here to see him the rug master, Holmes. Now 229 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.519 just look at their rug, gentlemen, you see when there's a crime of 230 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.640 this sort, where they careful to keep things in position. We've had an 231 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.519 officer in charge here, dad night, quite so I noticed him as we 232 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.720 came in. Now then, we'd a notion to tidy things up of it 233 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.279 today. Now the body's been buried, and such an whole thing solved. 234 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.599 Were the rug isn't fastened down, you see, only just laid there, 235 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.839 for we'd occasion to raise it. And we found the blood stain there, 236 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.359 see the blood stain on the road. Yes, yes, Now, then 237 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.720 a great deal of blood matter soaked through. And undoubtedly, undoubtedly it must. 238 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.160 And yet you'll be surprised, doctor, for there isn't a stain on 239 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.599 the white woodwork beneath to correspond. But there must be the trade. It's 240 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:29.000 it's impossible. So you'd say, look at the under side of the rug 241 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:33.079 sustained as the upper. See, yet there isn't a mark on the floor. 242 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:38.319 What's what's now? Let me give you the explanation, doctor, There 243 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:42.920 is a second stain, you see. Look, let me move this other 244 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:49.119 edge. Yeah over year. Now, then there's the stain on the woodwork 245 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:52.640 beneath another part of the rug. Altogether, what do you make of that? 246 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.400 Ain't come homes You don't seem to be attend into this. Oh, 247 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.759 it's a simple enough, Shirley. The two stains did correspond, but the 248 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:06.920 rugs being turned around. Is he homes? We hardly need mister Holmes his 249 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.119 famous methods to tell us that. Doctor Washington, Now the dearest trade. 250 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.000 Didn't you say that the constable out there had been in constant charge of this 251 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:17.960 place? Yes, well, then take my advice, lest trade. Go 252 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.480 out and examine him privately. Don't do it here before us. We'll wait 253 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.799 in this room. Ask him how he dares to admit strange people and leave 254 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:27.559 them alone in this room. No, no, don't ask him, tell 255 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:33.319 him take it for granted by sure. If he has, I'll get it 256 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.680 out of him. You mean, I mean hurry man, hurry, right, 257 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.319 sir, I'll do it at once now, then, Watson, in 258 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.599 Heaven's name, get off that rugby What what do you mean the rug? 259 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:52.759 Pull away the rug? Huh? Turn it right back? No, quick, 260 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.519 examine the floor underneath it. There must be a kevity here, kevity? 261 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:02.160 What do you mean, Holmes in the boar man the floorboards? Huh? 262 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.279 Look for a loose one. Ah, yeah, yeah, I've got 263 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.359 it. What's not? It's a hole. It's a kind of kind of 264 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.720 safe. Yeah ah, but it's empty. I might have known. Get 265 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:18.839 the rugging place again quickly, Watson, pays, coming back quick quick, 266 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:26.240 here we are. That's all right. Well you are right, mister Holmes. 267 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.599 My first time he has confessed. I'm sorry, sir, I'm really 268 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.720 sorry. I never meant any harm. I never said you did. What 269 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.799 happened? A young woman, sir, came to the door last night. 270 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:42.000 It was and this duke the host, she said, And then we got 271 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:47.079 talking. It's kind of lonesome when you're in duty. You're known, well, 272 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:51.240 man, speak up. So she asked if she could see where the 273 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.680 crime was done. I didn't see any harm if she just had a peep 274 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.599 and you let her in here, eh well, she said, coaxing ways, 275 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:03.240 sir. Then when she saw the blood you see, I guess she 276 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.240 kind of fainted, sir, right down on the rug here, did she? 277 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:10.039 Indeed? And so you went to get some water. I supposed to 278 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:12.920 bring her round, yes, sir, from the kitchen downstairs. And she 279 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.440 was all right when I came back, and then she went away. I 280 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:19.559 didn't mean any harm, sir, don't McPherson. Did you notice anything about 281 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.559 the rug when you came back? Eh? Rug? Well, so it 282 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:27.400 was a big kind of rumpled where she fell, So I just straightened it. 283 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:30.440 Sort of. I see McPherson. Come over here, would you. 284 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.519 I want to show you something. Just excuse me a moment, gentleman. 285 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:41.119 Now look here, McPherson, this photograph. Do you recognize it? Good 286 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.359 lord? Yes, sir, how did you know? Never mind, come 287 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:51.480 Watson, Thank you, Thank you, Constable McPherson. You've inspired me man, 288 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.640 and perhaps you've saved your country too. Look here, mister you too, 289 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:59.839 less trait, of course, my best. Congratulations, Good day, 290 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.640 gentlemen, congratulations, good day. I hurried after him. He was, 291 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:10.240 as he's most typical, he's most excited, as he was at the climax 292 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:14.799 of all his great solutions. I could only marvel, could only share the 293 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.519 excitement of the extraordinary man by my side as we were ushered into the Great 294 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:26.279 House in Whitehall Terrace and waited for Lady Hilda Holmes. This is surely most 295 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:30.279 unfair and ungenerous of you. I implored you to keep our business relations a 296 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.079 secrets. Unfortunately, Lady Hilda, I had no possible alternative but to visit 297 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.440 you in pursuit of my commission from the Prime Minister. How do you mean 298 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.160 I know everything, Lady Hilda, I know of your visit to Eduardo Lucas 299 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.400 when you gave him that document. I know two of your ingenious return to 300 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.799 his room last night, and the device which you used to get the letter 301 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.920 back again from its hiding place under the rug. You're mad, mister Holmes. 302 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.720 No, lady Hilda, I have no wish to cause you pain or 303 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.640 to reproach you for your rash behavior. But the piceman on duty recognized you 304 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:07.559 from a photograph that I showed him. Oh yes, yes it's true. 305 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.599 Why did you take it? Madam? Quickly? Quickly? Is a time 306 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:15.200 is short? Let me a letter I wrote long ago when I was a 307 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.680 girl. It was all a misunderstanding, But if it had come into my 308 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:21.880 husband's hands, it would have broken his heart. Lucas got hild of that 309 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:25.400 somehow. Yes, I had no idea he was such a man. He'd 310 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:29.799 always seemed so charming. Then one day he told me that he had that 311 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:32.599 letter of mine, and then I could only have it back if I took 312 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:37.079 him in exchange a certain document from my husband's dispatch box la very one you 313 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.400 see on the desk there. Well, he said it was all quite harmless, 314 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.799 a kind of joke. I was nearly demented with fear. I took 315 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:49.559 an impression of the key, and Lucas had a duplicate made, and I 316 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.160 took the paper to his house. And what happened there, Lady Hilda, 317 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.599 It was like a horrible dream. As I went in, I saw a 318 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:03.440 woman watching the house, a strange dark woman. I gave Lucas the paper, 319 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:06.519 and he gave me my letter. Then there was a sound at the 320 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:08.880 door, and Lucas pulled back the rag and pushed the paper into a hiding 321 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:15.119 place there. And then the door burst open and the woman came in, 322 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:19.000 the one i'd seen outside. She was screaming something about at last I found 323 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.759 you with her. Oh. I ran out in a panic, and the 324 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:26.160 last I saw was that she snatched the dagger down from the wall and was 325 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:32.160 rushing at him like a wildcats. To Holmes, I can't go on. 326 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:36.440 You must, lady Hilda. I suppose you'll realize next day that the paper 327 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:40.720 was more important than you thought. Yes, yes, that was why I 328 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:44.759 came to you. I saw a ruin facing it, the whole world in 329 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.799 arms because of my selfishness. And then I thought that the Lucas did, 330 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.319 the paper would still be in its hiding place, and but you know how 331 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.519 I went to the house again last night and got it back by a tricked 332 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.519 someone's coming homes my husband, I know his dip. I can't face mister 333 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:03.480 Dolmes. Mister Holmes, what you like doing? Told your story? Well, 334 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.960 lady Hilda, quickly give me the letter and the key. Here it 335 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:11.440 is, thank you. Watson passed me the dispatch box. Yeah down among 336 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:18.039 the other papers, yes, deep down, good, good, Now we 337 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.039 are ready for him. Go quickly, lady Hilda, the other door there, 338 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:25.559 compose yourself. All will be well. Oh, Heaven, bless your 339 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:32.720 stones, Heaven, bless your bony. Olmes, My dear Holmes, that 340 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:40.720 was splended's plended? Oh, mister Holmes. They told me you were here. 341 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:44.039 What news have you? I have good news? What, Lord Bennings, 342 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:47.519 had you here? You mean you have the paper, mister Holmes, 343 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:49.039 Not yet, my lord, That is why I am here. What do 344 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.960 you mean? I'm not convinced, mister Hope, that the paper has ever 345 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.279 left this house at all, but it's impossible. If it had, it 346 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.200 would have been made public by this time. No, gentleman, it's still 347 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.559 here. I think you have my assurance that it left the box. Mister 348 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:04.640 Holmes. I'm not convinced even about sir. Come. This joking is ill 349 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.279 timed. It's unworthy of you. The box is there, hope it's easily 350 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.519 enough decided, mister Holmes, if you're joking on such an issue, will 351 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.839 never joke. Lord Bellinger, as doctor Watson will tell you thinking of surd 352 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:25.519 sports from road mellow, memorandum from bell Grain note from Madrid reportful Wait heaven't 353 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:33.079 my lord, my lord the blue envelope and the letter intact. It's inconceivable 354 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.119 and you're a sorcerer. Mister Holmes. How did you know it was there? 355 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.400 Because I knew it could be nowhere else. I must tell my wife, 356 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:48.079 Hilda, Hilda an idea. Ah well, mister Holmes. Oh, 357 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.039 mister Sherlock Holmes, there's more in this than meets the isiser. How did 358 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:57.279 it come there? How you must allow us, Sir, to keep our 359 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:03.039 little diplomatic secret. It's good day to you, my lord. I am 360 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.680 always at your service and at the service of my country. Come Watson. 361 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:17.319 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of Sir Arthur Conan 362 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:22.440 Doyle, have been dramatized on you with original music composed by Sydney Corch. 363 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:26.720 Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of Doctor Watson and Sir John Gilguod that of 364 00:28:26.799 --> 00:29:11.359 Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers. Welcome back. 365 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:19.000 This has always been one of the tougher to swallow Sherlock Holmes fake hats. 366 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:26.680 I'm somewhat gratified that the Prime Minister doesn't sound like he buys it. 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