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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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is your host, Adam Graham.
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much for all your support. Well,

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we're going to play a very interesting
series of programs. This one not noted

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for being a multiple part episode of
Sherlock Holmes. We skipped over a couple

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of episodes to make sure that we
would be able to play the Bluke Harbuncle

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when we did. This particular episode
comes from March twenty feet of nineteen forty

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nine and the Tondel as the Elusive
Agent from New York City. The makers

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of clipper Craft Clothes for Men,
and more than twelve hundred leading retail stores

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from coast to coast present that immortal
character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

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the world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley. This week's story

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the adventure of the Elusive Agent.
It was the quarry we've followed from the

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docks. Went into that room off
the scolard of bike Watson. What are

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we waiting here for? But are
we just go in? Patience? Wats

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and patience. We cannot precipitate ourselves
into a trap on sheer impulse, Great

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quick Watson into that room. The
trap has spung. We must get to

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the victim. We're at the door
of doctor John Watson's study and we're about

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to hear another of his adventures with
the fabulous Sherlock holds. Well. Okay,

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good evening, mister Harris. Good
evening, doctor Watson. You have

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a memoir for us tonight. I
hope I have, indeed, mister Harris.

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In fact, I had just finished
editing it. When you kill it.

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I might say that this particular adventure
is a first rank importance, not

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only in the life of my friend
Holmes, but on the course of history

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itself. The stakes were the highest, and on the outcome hinged the issue

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of empire itself in no other adventure. So that I can recall, we're

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are plutagonists, more ruthless, more
shrewd, and more cruel. H sounds

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like you've got a treat for us
tonight. What do you call it,

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doctor Watson? Will Holmes and I
always refer to it as the adventure of

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the Elusive Agents. And after you
have enlightened our audience to the merits of

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Clippercraft clothes, mister Headers, I
shall proceed with this highly unusual story today.

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It's official. It's spring time for
you, mister man, to get

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a new spring suit and a new
spring top coat. Make sure you get

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clipper Craft, clipper Craft, the
best clothes you can buy for the money.

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Beautiful new spring all wool worsted clipper
Craft suits only forty five dollars.

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Clipper Craft all wool, gabardine or
covert top coats only forty to forty seven

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fifty clipper Craft clothes make you look
your best because they look like they cost

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much much more. Get your clipper
Craft spring outfit tomorrow. And now,

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doctor Watson, what about the Adventure
of the Elusive Agents? Well, mister

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Harris, it began in nineteen thirteen. This was a year when Holmes's brother,

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now Sir Maycroft Poems, had publicly
achieved the post Administer at Large Whitehall,

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which secretly conducted the affairs of British
intelligence nineteen thirteen, I might add,

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was a year of international tension,
notably between Britain and Germany, which

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a year later culminated in the First
World War. It was behind the shadowy

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scenes of espinage that this adventure first
began, and specifically it began one dark

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night on the Berlin Express, plunging
northward the Budapest turned, the German capital.

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There was a knock on a compartment
door. Yah, who is it?

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Hostap right in factor herm alone?
What is it? What do you

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want? I have a telegram for
your hair. My hair. Oh my

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moment I got. You're not gonna
make a samelon. Get back in that

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combat yours? Get back, I
said, or I'll blow your head off.

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That's better my frame, that's better. So you're an Englishman? What

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do you want to the plans my
hair plans? I don't know what you're

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talking of. Down to Hammelin and
listen las night in rude vest who nine

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and englishman in the back because waterproof
packet of paper from it You're on your

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way to deliver them to the villam
Strass and Berlin now and above the quick

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about it. You will never get
those plans. You'll swine Hiller Hermelin.

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But I must have them now.
No, yes, I must have yes

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Hermeler. Congratulations, my dear Norton, You've done an excellent job in intersembling

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at German agent and returning these players
to our embassy here in Berlin. Thank

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you for macro Unfortunately, our problem
is only begun, my dear boy.

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These plans are of the highest importance
and we must get them out of Germany

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and back to Whitehall at once.
Are you understand these are the originals,

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the only copies of the plans in
existence. They were stolen by this German

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agent you intercepted from the inventor himself
before he was able to get them to

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the War Office, and we could
have copies made. But I understand your

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returning to London tonight, are you
not, Sir Macroft. I am,

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but I cannot take the plans with
me. No, why not, sir?

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Ostensibly I am, Sir Microft homes
British Minister without portfolio here on official

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business. Actually, I am here
to see that these plans get back to

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London, and the Wilhelm Strasser knows
it. I see. I have been

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watched every step of the way.
The Germans have revoked our form of privilege

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and will examine all diplomats of the
customs, and we can't risk relaying the

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data to Whitehall by code on the
chance that the Germans may already have broken

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it. It will be a dangerous
and delicate mission to smuggle about of German

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in a moment. One moment,
my boy, I joke, I believe

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I habit, Yes, sir,
I record reading in the newspapers that you

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are to marry a British subject here
in Berlin by the name of miss Pammela

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Rivers. That's right, sir Maccoon. And if I remember, you were

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to be married this Saturday, and
we'll return to England for your honeymoon.

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Yes, sir, those are our
intention. Yes, I'm sure it will

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work. Philip Norton British Chatache takes
bride honeymoon's in England. Excellent, excellent,

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very romantic, innocuous in purpose,
not calculated to arouse suspicion. So

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I don't understand Naughton, my boy, marry your girl, take your bride

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to England with you, and take
something else in addition, Yes, sir

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mcra the plans. Norton, the
plans Darling, Darling, Philip. Oh,

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it all seems like a wonderful dream, does it, pa, Yes,

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Philip, Yes, I'm glad you
didn't dance that last dance. I'm

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glad we came up on deck here
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I think I'll always remember this moment, Philip, this moment of our

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honeymoon. I'll always remember what the
music was playing, and I had how

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the moon shone up there on the
sky, and the lights of England at

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home shining over there on the shore. So will I, Pam, So

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will i, Philip? Yes,
put your arms around me, homely close.

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Closer, Darling, closer. That's
it, Oh, darling, Darling,

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Philip, kiss me, No,
tell me that you love me.

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I love your pen I love you, I love you. Do you really,

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Darling? What a surprise, Darling
them you've got a name. Yes,

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you're English swine and you're going to
feel the blade again. No,

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my dear departed bridegroom the plans,
Yes, in your cold pockets, I

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thought, No, if I can
roll you over bought will the opening in

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this reel? Over you go?
Goodbye, my romantic darling, and thanks

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for the wedding present. Pot Hole
who's thought should be below in a small

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boat. There's the arrangement. Who's
that? Who's that? Are you there?

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Line? You have a plan,
Yes, hould them down to me

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for the pot hole you are thank
you for a line. That's swine.

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Norton so he thought he could smuggle
the plan one moment, coustaff only half

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the plans are there. I have
the other half. What does the meaning

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of this? It means that the
half I have is for sale? I

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see. But they happy actor has
paid your will tell you our master if

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he wants the rest of these plans, he would have to be more generous,

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you under stand. With that anywhere
I shall tell him. And when

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you come ashore, filite, we
shall be waiting for you at the harmyfool

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help you lisit? So? Young
Norton disappeared while the Oceania lay at quarantine

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in Southampton. Ay, Mycroft,
Yes, Sherlock, I'm sorry to rouse

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you and doctor Watson here in the
dead of night on a mission you never

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anticipated. But we have impounded the
passengers and crew of the vessel at Southampton

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for questioning, and we need your
talents desperately now. Indeed, if the

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plans are not recovered the life of
England, and if the empire itself are

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in Japanese, sounds like a formidable
affair, I must said, fight.

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But my dear Mycroft, since we
are to become involved with these plans,

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it might be helpful to know something
of their nature. These papers ten in

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all, were the designs of a
new weapon, Sherlock, a kind of

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land monster built to revolutionized modern warfare. In short, an armor plated mobile

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vehicle we call a turn. But
she serves it this sounds like something out

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of Jewel's verse. Yes, it
does, Indean Watson with sher like,

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I beg of you to bend every
effort of the recovery of those plans,

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to use every passage of your genius
to track them down. I'll be a

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good chair, my craft. It's
my opinion that the plans have already been

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spirited from the Oceania, that it
may not yet be too late. I

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get aboard. I shall have some
pertinent questions to ask. Whom will you

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begin with, Hope, Since it's
the bridegroom who's missing, my dear Watson,

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I shall obviously begin with the bride. Now, missus Norton, exactly

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what happened after you and your husband
had gone to the upper deck of the

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vessel here it was a little chili. I asked Philip to wait for a

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moment. I left him alone,
went down to my cabin to get a

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rap. When I returned, it
was gone. And after you searched the

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boat and couldn't find him, you
notified the captaman. Yeah, yes,

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doctor Watson. Yes, it's the
home side clean. I can't answer any

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more questions. No, Philip's hes
gone, loved it. I'm I'm sorry,

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this is not I realize what a
strain you've been undone, and there's

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no need to detain you any longer. You are liberty retired your cabin now,

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can't get me the Jews hole.
I must confess I found it a

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heartbreaking experience watched this poor girl,
did you, Watson? What do you

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mean? I mean that the woman
lied? What come come, Watson?

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It's painfully obvious. He distinctly said
that she went down to get her rep

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did she not? Yes, yes
she did. But what is considered,

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My dear fellow, if you were
a bridegroom on your honeymoon and in a

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chivalrous mood, would you allow your
bride to go to the trouble of getting

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her own rap no, no dash
the precisely you would not know, man,

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would Watson Hope notify the authors to
allow all passengers to smbarkers. But

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Holmes, you haven't questioned any of
the other I don't think it necessary,

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Watson, time is too short,
and we must gamble at long odds.

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From now on we shall concentrate all
our energies on following the berieved bride.

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Now, with your permission, we're
going to transport Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson

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from England to America for a few
moments. They are in a typical American

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city. I say, that's a
very successful looking chap standing there, isn't

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it, eh, Banker, would
you say not at all, my dear

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Watson. He is not a man
of wealth, opposition, but a man

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of extremely good taste. He looked
successful because he's succeeded in finding an excellent

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tailor. That he's an athlete is
at first glance, yes, but I'm

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quite sure that his broad shoulders and
tapering waist are ready the results of excellent

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clothing design. We must be wealthy
to a force to spendid tailor to see

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what beautiful fabric because in his suit, or, my dear Watson, you're

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obviously unfamiliar with the American way of
life. That man to whom you refer

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is wearing a clipper Craft suit,
which, if I'm not the stick in

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selves for only forty five dollars.
But how will you see, Watson?

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Some twelve hundred retail elections all over
to Medica have pooled their tremendous buying power

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to make these really extraordinary clippercraft nus
possible rock Watson as a symbol of the

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honest New England quality and value of
clippercraft clothing. They have adopted the name

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clipper Craft in emulation of the famous
New England clipper ships and the modern aircraft

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of the same name. These are
synonymous with New England quality. Oh,

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I see it. But tell me, Holmes, how did you recognize that

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chap as the wearer the clippercraft suit
elementary, My dear Watson, he's the

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best dressed man in sight? All
right, you are, Sherlock Holmes,

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the best dressed man in sight.
A successful looking man is the man who

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wears a clippercraft suit. Yet Clippercraft
new spring suits cost only forty five dollars

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and clipper Craft Gaberdine and covert coats
only forty to forty seven fifty See the

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new clipper Craft spring styles tomorrow.
Clipper Craft clothes are sold by your local

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store, whose business it is to
give you honest value. That's why men

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

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

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

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

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

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in New York, New Jersey Boulevard
Men's Shop Kresgi, Nork, And in

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Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop
one six four o eight Jamaica Avenue.

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Do doctor Watson. Doctor Watson,
you were relating to us the adventure of

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the elusive agents. So I was, mister Hens, So I was our

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tusk Is homes that explain to keep
the bereaved bride, Missus Philip Norton,

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under our watchful surveillance, and this
in the theory that she might lead us

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to the stolen plans for the new
British armored monster named the Tech. We

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saw it take the train to London
and we followed. Then at London she

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took the underground and we followed,
keeping out a side in the next car,

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and finally she emerged at the suburban
station of Goldi's dream spent into this

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house. I believe I saw someone
admitted of that door there, and the

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colonels quite you shall wait here for
her to emerge? Ons, Why don't

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we just go in nations, my
dear man patience. Our belief is that

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Missus Naughton did not see a shadow
in her, but we cannot be sure.

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Shrewd, my dear fellower and summit
actress, and no fool, for

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all we know this may be a
trap. Have your sad This revolva will

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be once it right here that I
had it ready at, My dear fellow,

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it is short time you may have
occasion to use it. Ah,

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so you have already come tusius or
not. I do not wish to be

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caught prow any longer. The vokery
is over, and that pool not nestad

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as your wish, whereas your master. As you know, we have a

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business appointment. The actor has delegated
me to represent in these negotiations. Very

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well, I have half the plans. Your master has the other half.

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But that's one portion. The other
portion is listed. How much of my

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big good stub the hand we night
dos in climbed to be generous. You

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have already been well paid, but
he realizes that a certain expenses he's willing

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to pay you ten thousand pounds on
the seat of your heart, ten thousand

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pounds. There's a handsome some idea
to pay up black. It's a pittance.

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The artists know. The price is
fifty thousand pounds. You must be

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mad with Greek. Fifty thousand pounds, My dear good stap, I know

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what bolt these downs are worth.
Price is low, and have no confquence

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to the organiztion you represent. Consider
what the British would pay for those papers?

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Well, Gutta, I remempower the
goals higher. Twenty thousand pounds.

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That is my final offer. Fifty
thousand and death is my final offer.

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You have the papers with you I
have. Oh, I don't think you

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can take them from me by violence? Will start and remove me for good?

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It really wouldn't be worth it.
You know, I have a trusted

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friend in London and he has a
sealed letter. In this letter is all

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the information I possessed concerning the German
Eskiana's dring. Not only are the continent

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but in England too. You understand
that, fol and I understand. And

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finally, the letter contains the identity
of the ringleader himself, Gutta, you

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are master and mine. In the
event of my disappearance, my friend is

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to mail this letter to the cheaper
British intelligence at quite all the crisis still

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fifty thousand pounds will stap? Perhaps
you had the talk that they had like

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a personally, My dear Folland,
isn't the next moment I would summon him?

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The Folne is here naturally, I'm
sure with the consistance, and who

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do you mean for her life?
So consider talking able to visit our little

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hideaway far out here in Golden Street. I understand who've named the price for

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those plans? Fifty thousand pounds.
It's a little high. May I make

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a counter of her. What is
it? This simple, hey, good

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stub the idea way to make a
bargain quick, efficient, ruthless. And

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so we beat a farewell to the
brand. But the letter, the letter,

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you also take me for a full
destob But the friend and the letter

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would destroy long before she arrived in
England. I haven't my agents, honeycoming

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this powl and miserable island for nothing? Quick now search up at the Yeah,

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open open the door they've gotta knocked. Okay, it's here's quicker out

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the back way. It's not fine
now by while we can have the part

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of the sea. Quick with your
pistol. Wats this right? The thing's

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gonna wear with the gun walls.
Well, who's you've got the plans?

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Yes, Watson, they've got on
Missus Knaton's body here. And fortunately,

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however we have only half the packet
half fright, Only five designs are here,

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and you'll record my cock doors of
a ten in all this would the

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other five where could they be?
No doubt in the hands of the roofless

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agents who just truck Missus Knaton here
might very well have been that she came

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here with the idea of selling them
and Watson. This, who you detect

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a faint owner of tobacco in this
room? Be yes, yes, Come

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to think of it, I do, interesting, sent Watson. Very what

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do you mean? Smells like ordinary
tobacco to me? On the contrary,

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this one's a rare and very unusual
blend. It's a cross mixture, Watson.

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The faces are strong and heavy,
peric tempered with a bit of burley

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and more than just a touch of
Euphrate's yellow leaf grown in the river valleys

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of eastern Turkey. Only one expert
in London, or in all of England

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will create an extra like this Grimsby. Grimsby, the tobacconist. He specializes

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in these rare and exotic blends.
He owns a little hole in the wall

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in soho By serve those we can
go there. And I certain who ordered

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this blendby precisely. One thing is
sure, my dear fellow. One thing

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is certain. Now that we possess
half the plans, our constant companion is

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danger and we are marked men.
So you did mix that blend, I

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described, Grimsby, Yester Holmes.
I did. I most certainly did A

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very unusual format, a very unique
I made it to the purchases who quest

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the court? And who was this
purchaser right now? It was a foreign

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gentleman named Marcos, the amy macOS
Marco. Would you describe him too?

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A soul, yes, mister Holmes. He had the most unusual face,

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one that who wouldn't soon forget her? A tall man, he was her

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very prestidiously dressed. Today he takes
somewhat like a hack, but it was

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his mouth would notice anywhere? Yes? What about his mouth and adapter watching

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it? He had a sort of
unportant twitched the corner every now and then,

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a very annoying habit, to be
sure. Would you know where this

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Emuel Marco lived Grimsbre Yes, mister, course I would. I had a

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messenger deliberate in it. Did tobacco
mixture to its paying the back littel?

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I said, I say the rule
block. Yes, gentlemen, what could

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I do for you? We're looking
for a gentleman named Marco, Emile Marco.

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What whom did the occupy? Why
he did occupy his sweet on the

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third class? Did you mean his
left three? Yes, sir, he

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left early this morning? Would you
know his destination from here? Let's see

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Marco Emile Market. The utmost important
that you remember. Well one moment,

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I do remember this, What did
you girl? I recall his luggage was

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routed for the hotel Metropol in Paris. I remember it from the label Metropol

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in Paris. Come up and there's
no time for us upbraid them? You'd

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be city nine two three? Yes, are you there? This is Bradley

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at the bar day. The gentlemen
were here. They found out about Marco

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in there trading into Paris. Yes, sir, I told them where they

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could finding myself. Well, doctor
Watson, you've got us sitting on the

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edges of our chairs. What happened
next in Paris? Patience, my dear

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mister Harris's patience. Next week I
shall rob with the adventure of the Elucidation.

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I can only tell you that from
her on events moved forward with breast

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ticking speed, that we walked in
the midst of the strange espionage plot,

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met some rootless and deadly persons,
and almost lost our lives. So until

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next week, at the same time, mister Harris, I shall say good

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Socie Harris, speaking for clippers Flap
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Well. The way that Microft's guy
was murdered was just particularly cold blooded.

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Of course, we're left with a
lot of questions. Is tough as

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to where the ringleader really is,
who that guy at the nesk was,

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and so much more that we'll have
answered in future episodes. One thing we

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don't need answered is whether clever Craft
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advertisements. I think we can answer
after today safely. The answer is no

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using Holmes and Watson in character to
sell suits. To quote the great chessler

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Riley, what a revolting development.
But storyline is developing interesting. We'll see

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what will happen next week in part
two of The Elusive Agent. Be sure

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and join us then for that Tomorrow
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