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Well, it's time for today's episode. We're going to get into it

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quickly as we wrap up The Elusive
Agent. It's time for The Elusive Agent

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Part three. From New York City, the makers of clipper Craft clothes for

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men and more than twelve hundred leading
retail stores from coast to coast present their

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immortal character created by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the world's most famous detective,

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Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley.
This week's story, The Adventure of the

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Elusive Agent, Part three, the
concluding episode, mister Holmes. Before long,

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Gustav Pill, Doctor Button. If
you do not talk Petime, I

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warn you if anything happens to Watsonah, but it will. You do not

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know, Gustav, A man with
this smoothness of silk but hard as stone

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beneath you only can save doctor Butts. I am quite aware of my dilemma.

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But what you and Gustave have failed
to observe is that you get back.

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Get back, you British. Fine, I'll kill you here and now.

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Now. I'd like my listeners to
see if they can make a correct

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deduction like Sherlock Holmes. I'll set
the scene for you. An alert,

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well dressed young man is counting out
some money. He says, forty one,

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forty two, forty three, forty
four, forty five. That's right,

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forty five. Now what is this
young man doing well, I'll tell

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you, because you'd hardly believe the
evidence of your own eyes. He was

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paying only forty five dollars for that
excellent new clipper craft suit. That's right,

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only forty five dollars for a nationally
famous clipper craft suit of carefully selected,

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tested worsted, of exceptionally fine tailoring, with the distinctive styling that sets

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clippercraft suits apart from any suits ordinarily
sold at anywhere near this price. How

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can they do it? I'll tell
you that more than twelve hundred independent merchants

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have pooled their tremendous buying power to
make those low prices possible for clipper Craft.

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So compare clipper craft clothes with clothes
costing many dollars more, and you

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will agree that never before has there
been such value in fabrics, such value

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in styling, such value in workmanship. In short, you get America's greatest

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clothing value when you buy clipper Craft
clothes, Doctor Watson. Last week,

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in relating the adventure of the Elusive
Agent, you arrived in Berlin reached the

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house of Amiel Marco, a phantom
German secret agent you'd been pursuing over half

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account. Yes, mister Harris,
but unfortunately we found ourselves and enemy hands.

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Shall I recall the circumstances for our
audience by all means dock towards.

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As you know, it was the
year nineteen thirteen, a year when Germany

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and Britain were striving for mastery,
a year when ominous war clouds were already

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gathering. Holmes's brother Sir Macroft,
who was head of British Intelligence, had

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called us in to recover some plans
for the new and top secret British tech

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which German intelligence had stoke well up
to a series of desperate circumstances, Holmes

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and I managed to obtain half of
the plans, of which only one copy

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exist. Without the other half,
the entire set was useless, you may

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recall, mister Harris. We pursued
Marco de Petis and there we almost lost

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our lives in a bomb exposure.
Our luggage was rifled and German agents managed

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to steal the half of the plans
we kept, but they were only clever

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imitations. Then we picked up Amil
Marco's trail to Berlin, and what finally

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happened In Berlin, Doctor Watson,
we'll the British secret agent posing as a

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newsbender. A man named Collins,
directed us to Marco's heart. There we

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were trapped by Marcos Hensman Gustav and
a brute of a man named Peter.

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Peter had seized Hose as Gustav saving
as their holms. I once said,

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we never kill our opponents, and
an ordinary man and we torture them to

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death. I want to know the
truth about the paper's holms. Perhaps it

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will require a bit of persuasion.
Go on, Peter, Yeah, Gustave,

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I will make Colmes answer. That's
it, Peter, go on a

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Swede. Surely, Gustav. You
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at the genuine plans. They are, of course somewhere in England, safely

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in the custody the Admiralty, where
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We thought of that, Holmes.
It's possible you're telling the truth, But

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there is another possibility. Tool Are
you as patriotic as you've seen mister Holmes.

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You are not an official employee of
the British government. I believe you

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may not be cooperating with England either. But playing this game alone, trying

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to collect both halves of the real
plan yourself fantastic nonsense. It would be

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so profitable for you to have both
halves and sell them to the highest bidder.

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Isn't that what you're attempting? Holmes? I repeat the ideas of sir,

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answer me help and granser me.
Peter. If you have deceived the

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British I will be glad to work
with your homes, but you must tell

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me the truths tell me exactly what
you're doing. I must see the weather

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here in Berlin's rather chilly for this
time of year. Who won't keep this

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up for long? Holms again,
Peter, good lord, come Watson,

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don't look so agitated. I I
have no doubt I should survive the efforts

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of this butcher. It's only to
make the brain the master of the body,

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to concentrate, to divorce it from
its physical functions, a trick I

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learned in the East. Watson speak, you fine, speak no no better?

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Good staff. This man Holmes is
iron he will not speak all right,

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Lason, Peter, so you still
won't disclose the truth? Alms.

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I was marking to Watson here that
your climate in Berlin usually much warmer at

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this I've had enough of your stupid
English Hu my mister Holmes. I have

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a better idea. Really, Doctor
Watson and I are going on a little

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trip together to my private retreat.
You, Peter will stay here and guard

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mister Holmes. Sounds like some new
deviltry. Holmes, Just what is this

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proposition, Goostan? Very simple,
very simple. Indeed, I shall be

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in touch with Peter you're by telephone. If mister Holmes, you do not

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disclose the truth about the plans in
twenty four hours, my hostage and your

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friend doctor Watson will die newspaper for
a line afternoon newspaper. Now go away.

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I do not want any newspaper,
but you will find it interesting.

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Courage for your lunch hour. The
Kaisa has told the British go away.

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Stop following me, and if you
persist, I shall call the police.

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Step into this alley here, what
do you want Collins? After two British

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intelligence the peat rides higher Scapa flow. Quick identify and give me the counterpast

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Greater Bruner Telephone employee Berlin Central Exchange
G nineteen counterpast. The Dahlias grow high

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in Devonshire. Good move back further
into the Allies. Yeah, you can't

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be seen. Yes now listen.
Friend of ours has been spirited from a

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house at twenty seven Littleish Classes.
Another friend is being held there also under

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custoday. Telephone has been installed at
the house. Yes, go on.

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It's possible that a call will come
to the house from the German agent who

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is lifted. Can you tap that
call and find out where it came from?

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Yes? Yes, I think so. Another girl works the switchbod on

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that line comes Ill has to go
home, you know, how gol comes

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through. Get in touch with me
at once. I'll be waiting at this

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number. Your number, please,
it's so eight eight three four. IT'SO

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eight eight three four. Thank you, zah. Yeah, who is see

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that? This is stuff as home
as we can get. No, the

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spine will not talk. I see. Tell him that I am cutting the

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time to twelve hours. I will
continue to hold his friend he at the

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floss until then. After that it
will be all over. Well, mister

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Holmes before a long Gustav will kill
doctor Watts if you do not talk.

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I am quite aware of my dilemma. I'm also aware that if I gave

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your superior of the information which are
open up open the door? Who is

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that? Oh do you? Thank
you? Poor? I couldn't wait.

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I've done away with Watson. Now
we'll give the same statement to Horror.

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Open the door. Yeah, Gustave. One moment, I was just trying

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again to get Holmst to talk.
And oh, thank you Collins. I

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must compliment you on your faculty for
appearing in the right place at the right

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moment. Thank you, sir.
I think I've located doctor Watson with the

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cooperation of one of our agents of
the Berlin telephone exchange capital man capital well

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is he he's being held in the
deserted castle at Spandau. Sir, it

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belongs to the man Gustav's and Cetral
family. Excellent Collins, Yes, sir,

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you're not abump. Taking a day
risk dangers my vocations, good fellow.

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First, you will dress in dead
Peter's clothes. Here, his cap,

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overcoat, everything. They'll fit you
a trifle loosely, perhaps bit well

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enough. In short, you will
impersonate Gustav's dead henchman Understan Collins. Yes,

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was to Holmes. Then I take
it. We're going to Spandau with

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all possible haste. Time is already
running short in the life of my good

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friend doctor Watson hangs in the balance. Before you buy that new spring suit,

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just remember this. When you get
a new spring clipper Craft worsted suit

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for only forty five dollars, an
all wool covert cloth top coat for forty

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or an all wool clipper Craft gabblin
top coat for forty two fifty, you're

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getting the most for your money.
Clipper Craft clothes take their name from the

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famous Clipper ships that established honest New
England quality everywhere in the world. Yet

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they're as modern as the clipper planes
that fly around the world today. Yes,

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you can trust Clippercraft clothes and the
men who sell them. That's why

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men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes
bearing the Clippercraft label. So be sure

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to visit the clipper Craft store in
your city. These leading stores in the

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metropolitan area are proud to add their
names to Clippercraft in your suits and top

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coats. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker's
Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and sixty seven

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Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway
at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abram and

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Strauss in New York, New Jersey
Boulevard Men's Shops Kresgy, NewYork. And

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in Jamaica, the B and B
Clothes Shop one six four oh eight Jamaica

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Avenue. Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, mister Holmes and Collins, the British

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agent, were oft to rescue you
at the castle in Spandau where Gustav held

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you as his prisoner. This,
mister Harris. The castle in Spandau was

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a huge deserted spot the dead of
night. Homes stood with Collins before the

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entrance. Gusta Holmes vulters flying over
the castle. Instinct Collins, they expect

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a human den Could Gustav have killed
Watson? Are we too late? Perhaps?

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Now you will walk to the main
gate. Yes, in your disguise

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as Peter, you'll ring. You'll
keep Gustar occupied at the front door.

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I understand. If Gusta becomes at
all suspicious, shoot to kill I shall,

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I will dash the rear of the
castle. Are proud about till I

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find the room where Watson's being held
captive and free him. Then we shall

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attack Gusta while he's talking to you. Excellent, good luck you come back

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Gusta. Also, Watson, it's
homes homes by Joe. How did you

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get in here? All? By
time? Later to explain? Come on,

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Collins of intelligence is downstairs in this
castle, chatting with Guddar. I

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see right, don't take this revolver. You sh'll steal downstairs. Surprise guds

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Dar his way stairs as cautiously as
you can. Right, What on earth

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something's gone wrong with Colin's terribly wrong, Harry Watson. Run down these stairs.

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Wait, look staggering up these stairs
toward us. Her it's Gustav his

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face is covered with blood. He
is covering Collins with disguise. They exchange

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shops. Gusta has been hit two
or three times, you see it is

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holding his side. Blood from his
chest too. He's classed the real,

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doctor Watson. Where one German falls, many more will Rice. We will

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yet have the plans. You seem
successful now, but any victory over us

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isn't well. He is falling down
the stairs. Let him fall to the

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death. He's so eminently deserved,
Watson. But whereas our own agent,

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where's Collins? This way thought the
front of the building where he and Gustav

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shot it out there he is lying
on the floor. Is he dead?

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Yes, Watson, poor devil shomped
through the head. Thank Heaven, the

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first bullet from Gustav's revab entered it
for him. He didn't suffer. I

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shall inform my brother Mycroft at Whitehall
that agent Collins died valiantly in the performance

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of his assigned UTYA Well to nows. We still not found Germany's half of

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the plans for the new tank.
We still not found the master spy mil

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Markov. The answer to those crucial
questions, Watson lies in London. When

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we left London days and days ago. We thought our way here to Berlin

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to find Marko and retrieve the papers
Wherevertheless, the answer is in London.

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We must get out of Germany.
How we surround. We shall aboard the

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very next train from Berlin to the
French border and meet whatever awaits us.

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Well, so far we're doing welhood. We've caught the trend. We're on

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our way to the French border,
if we can remain alive to reach it

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once. And and why are we
returning to London? Homes an doctor?

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He gets, please, Oh here
you are, sir, e you man

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air. I presumed there an order, d'm an heir? Just one more?

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Im? I I do ten do, and I don't think the wheels

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up. Here's the buck be on
a barbo box and strike him down it,

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Oh good work. When did you
see him home? He's hardly reached

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through his ticket punch. When you
pounced upon him the bulge in his coat

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pocket, I realized it might be
a revolver as indeed it is. No

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he's another of Marco's endless supply of
killers. He was assigned a murderous sky.

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We can't leave him here. There'll
be an him quiet. Oh,

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yes, we can leave him.
You see, we are leaving this trade

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the first start, No immediately,
and maybe other German agents are board.

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Got to just two of us.
Can't take the risk. My intention,

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you see, Watson, was to
do just this, even before the conductor

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arrived. We bought at the train
ostentatiously, so they'd make plans for us

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all along the route. Now we
shall spring the trap. Come the corridor

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open at door, Watson. Those
we can't believe off the train at this

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speech. Not only chance. We
shall wait for a run of what is

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a parent's soft earth. Our alexis
You go, Watson, arms and legs

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loose, to try to roll over
easily as you strike the earth. You're

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ready, ready, after me?
What's a job? It's wonderfull be back

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on the streets of London. Ah, yes, right, But why will

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we run here to serve her?
We haven't even reported a white hole,

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jns Watson. We must visit the
shop where this gigantic and gruesome trip began,

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the shop of Grimsby, the Tobacconist
Grimsby Shop. But because we've journeyed

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to foreign cities, eluded death and
fought the greatest spiring of our day,

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all because of a few sentences spoken
by the shy, friendly tobacconist here in

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the shop. Shall we speak to
him just once more, back in Londons,

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to Holmes and doctor Watson. Yes, Grimsby, wasn't mister Emil Marco

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at his hotel here in London?
I described him to tall, thin and

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nervous abbot of pitching his mouth.
Yes, you did describe in Grimsby.

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But he was not at the hotel
in London, nor was he in Paris,

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nor was he in any of the
dark and bloody corners of the continent

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where we sought him. Do you
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because that isn't an Emil Marco.
There never was an Emil Marco.

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This master of the German spineap that
Watson and I and all of British Intelligence

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have been pursuing is an illusion created
by you, Grimsby. I can't believe.

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When Watson and I first visited your
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your client because I deticted the odor
of a rare tobacco in the room where

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we found a dead agent. I
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He was the chief, He had
the missing half of Britain's plans. You

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are that man, Grimsby. You
didn't expect us, did you. You're

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smoking at brand of tobacco at this
very moment. Yeah, I had hoped

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it creating Marco to attract you to
Germinate. I could learn the truth from

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you there. Then I could dispense
with you. Dearly advisable. You could

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operate with ease in Germany rather than
here in Britain. I simply inform my

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associate to pass the lion of trying
you to Berlin with the phantom mark of

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at a magnet. I cannot wait
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the plan. I shall just destry
my half, reducing both my honors to

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an equal states Again, you're half
being with without mine. I shall burn

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my heart. It's here in my
pocket. Britain will never have the weapon

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its seats. Yeah, set a
match to these papers I hold in my

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hand. Go I'm doctor Watson,
or I shall blow your head off with

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his rebother. I can't do it. Do as he says. Watson will

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kill you. I will thank you. I must leave lockers door from the

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outside will not attempt to shout or
leave until I disappeared down the street,

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or I will shoot ave it as
a gentleman. He's gone homes burnished into

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the crowd, the burned to a
chriss quickly Watson and pick up that chair.

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The Blues time trying to force the
lock on that door. Smash the

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glass with that chair. Now,
Cap Watson, Grimsy will try to leave

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London instantly, the Cap to Waterloo
Station. Why should Gruseby be here at

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Waterloo stations? Because he realizes Whitehall
would turn London topsy turvy to find him.

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He must return to Germany. All
aeroplanes in this area are in British

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hands. In mus travel by boat
train for the Channel, and this is

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where he bought the next train.
There he is by that data. Stop

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stay where you are. God,
I'm afraid we had the upper hand.

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Now, sir, Now before we
turn you over to the authorities, where

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are your half of the plans?
Starve its title Burton before you're on island,

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Ela Grinsby, you've played card after
card by which we have been debuted.

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I say you still have the missing
half of the plans for Britain's new

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weapon on your person. This last
ruse of yours is quite transparent, and

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you've burnt an ordinary piece of paper. All right, put up your hands,

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guns away. Oh, he wouldn't
carry the papers openly in his pockets,

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Watson, Not in his wallet.
He would conceal them in a spot

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where no one might think to look, except, of course, to your

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humble servant. I'll find them.
The search isn't necessary, Watson. One

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must always analyze a personality in its
own me year, within itself, it

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contains the answer to its mysteries.
Now where would a tobacconist be likely to

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conceal a few small papers? Why
beneath the tobacco and his tin. Let's

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have a look at that chin,
hell, lopen it still the tobacco,

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and beneath the very same rare tobacco
which first launched us on this great adventure,

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Watson, the plans, the plans, well, doctor Watson, the

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Adventure of the Elusive Agent was really
one of the most exciting adventures you and

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mister Holmes have ever had, and
a crucial point in the history of World

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War One. May I add is
indeed, mister Harris, because you know

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the British didn't succeed in keeping their
plans for the tank of secret. It

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proved to be a very decisive weapon. Well, where was mister Holmes half

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of the plans you have vault at
White Holmes to Harris under special guard of

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the Royal Miny. Well, doctor
Watson, these past three weeks have been

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very exciting and memorable ones. Yes, but do you think, mister Harris,

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our audience is in favor of these
longer stories you see er, some

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of our more colorful stories are too
long to compress into one short program.

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Well, and doctor Watson, or
a letter or a postcard from our listeners

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will give us the answer. Just
address clipper Craft and care of the station

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to which they are listening, and
tell us what they think. I presume,

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doctor Watson, that your next memoir
is just as scripting as this one.

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Well, next week, mister Harris, I should a late us about

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Holmes and myself that I have called
the Mad Miners of Cottage. It occurred

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in will at an abandoned cool mine. It concerned a miner's jacket, a

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murder committed in the darkest depths of
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it drove human being out of the
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Mutual Broadcasting System welcome back. Well. I, for my part, I

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truly enjoyed this series. I enjoyed
it the first time I'll listen to I

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went back when I read some remarks
about the John Stanley run of Sherlock Holmes

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episodes, many of them which I
think had legitimate points. But I listened

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to that and I thought, you
know, this is definitely something people should

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be able to enjoy. So I
hope that whatever this, whatever difficulties and

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issues we've had, that this full
series is made up for it. I

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think a wonderful story, not necessarily
in the Sherlock Holmes traditional Sherlock Holmes main

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but I really action packed thriller here, spy story with a great twist.

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I love the tobacconist actually being the
villain here. Of course, this was

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actually the only serial of the sort
with these multiple part episodes. Earlier in

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the run back in the thirties and
forties, some of the novels were serialized

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in multi part stories, but all
of the original Sherlock Holmes, not i

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should say new Sherlock Holmes stories were
kept strictly in the one episode, and

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really at this point, this episode
was the thirtieth of the season, so,

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and they would only have thirty nine
weeks in the season, so any

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feedback that Clippercraft received would be something
they would take into consideration for next season.

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But next season, Sherlock Holmes would
be on another network with another sponsor.

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Well, I hope you've enjoyed the
Elusive Agent story. Join us back

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here tomorrow for yours truly Johnny Doller, and next Thursday we will get back

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into our regular order. We have
seven episodes of Sherlock Holmes that star John

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Stanley left, so I hope you
will be listening next week. In the

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