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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you a Sherlock Holmes Christmas special. But

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before we get started, I want to encourage you. If

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you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite

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month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Today, I'm

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bringing you a special I call homes for the Holiday,

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and I've been wanting to do this for a long time,

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but not just because it would be a punt, which

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it is, but because there's so much that we get

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to enjoy with this. We're going to bring you to

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original to Radio Christmas themed Sherlock Holmes episodes. Now, of course,

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there is the Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, which is

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typically associated with Christmas and the holiday season, but today

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we're covering two episodes that really do serve up a

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lot of contrast, and there are so many points of

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comparison here. You have two different casts, two different creative teams.

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So there are some fun points of comparison between Hollywood

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and New York, between Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and

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John Stanley and Alfred Shirley, and of course the riting

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talents of Dennis Green versus Edith Miser. With that said,

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let's go ahead and get started. First up from December

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the twenty fourth, nineteen forty five, here is Basil Rathbone

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in the not before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: This episode from the Life of Sherlock Holmes will be

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transmitted to our men and women overseas by shortwave and

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through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.

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Petrie Wine brings you Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, the

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new Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie Family, the family

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that took time to bring you good wine. Invite you

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to listen to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure

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he shared with his old friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 3: Well, right about now.

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Speaker 2: You're probably taking a little breather in your last minute

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rush to get everything ready for the big day tomorrow.

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Children have to be put to bed to wait for

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Santa Claus. And there's the tree waiting to be decorated,

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and four a million and one things which must be

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done before morning. I sure hope you got all your

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Christmas shopping done. It's pretty hectic rushing off at the

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last minute to take care of Uncle Charlie or Aunt Bertha,

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cousin Sam. But if you must get something, just remember

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that you can always dash over to your wine merchant

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and get a bottle or two of Petrie wine. For

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Betty had a whole case of Petrie wine. Petrie Wine's

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a swell gift. And I just thought a little last

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minute suggestion might be.

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Speaker 4: Of some help.

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Speaker 2: And now I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson's waiting

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for us, So let's go and enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: Come in, come in it.

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Speaker 3: Uh there you are, say doctor.

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Speaker 2: I can see you're gonna have yourself quite a Christmas

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big tree in the corner with colored lights on it.

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Where you get those table covered with presents, you must

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be mighty popular for me, my boy.

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Speaker 4: You see, I'm heaving a Christmas party tomorrow for my

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housekeeper's little nieces. Oh, I'm going to dress up close form.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure you look very convincing in the park.

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By the way, doctor, I brought you a little present.

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Speaker 3: Here it is.

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Speaker 4: I hope you like it. I got you too, Oh

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you you mustn't open it until tomorrow. Here, I'm a boy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, doctor, And now has about tonight's story.

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Last week you told us you had chosen an adventure

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with a lot of Christmas y apples.

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Speaker 4: Yes, mister bart my story begins on another Christmas Eve,

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many many years ago, the exact in eighteen hundred and

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eighty six. Time the adventure occurred. I must confess I

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didn't quite understand what was going on myself. In fact,

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I never did quite make head of tails of it

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until till Holmes took pity on me later and explain

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the whole thing. But I shan't try to confuse you,

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mister Bartle. I'll tell you the story exactly it.

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Speaker 3: Happened, right you, aired, Doctor, Let's go very well.

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Speaker 4: On that Christmas Eve in eighty six, I was standing

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in our Baker Street rooms, dressed in the costume of

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Santa Claus. Holmes is long, thin fingers pressed together, laid

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back in an armchair and gazed at me quizzically while

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our housekeeper, Missus Hudson, good by the door, and.

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Speaker 5: What you make a grand Santa Claus?

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Speaker 3: Missus Hudson.

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Speaker 4: Chap uncomfortable? How does it look?

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Speaker 5: You look just like the old man on the Christmas cards,

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Doctor Watson.

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Speaker 3: It really becomes you, cherry twinkle of the eyes, the

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ready complexion and the appropriate girth. A shame we can't

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obtain some snow and a sleigh and reindeer for you. However,

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I'm showing Missus Hudson's nieces will be very much impressed.

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Speaker 6: The will that, sir, And it's very kind of you,

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doctor to come over to that house with me, with

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her father in the hospital and my sister at his bedside.

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Speaker 5: It would have been a very miserable Christmas without boy enjoyment.

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Speaker 4: But I think i'll take the beard of before we

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get there. That's it. Are you ready to leave, Missus Hudson.

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Speaker 5: I am, sir. Will I get a cab?

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Speaker 4: How far do we have to go?

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Speaker 6: Oh, Lexington Gardens, number twenty eight. It's just off the

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Speaker 4: But bearing in mind my costumes, we'd better take your care, Hi, sir,

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with yourself? I hate leaving you alone on Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Or nobody, old chap. I shall spend a profitable evening

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writing on my new monograph.

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Speaker 4: What this one about?

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Speaker 3: An analysis of teeth marks on pipe stems with a

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particular regard to indicated character.

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Speaker 4: This is me how exciting well I must be going.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget your sack of presents over on. When you

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come to distribute them, you will find that I took

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the liberty of adding a few trinkets on my own behalf.

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Speaker 4: That's very thoughtful of your.

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Speaker 6: Excuse me, mister Holmes. But there's a gentleman to see you,

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says he's an old friend of yours.

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Speaker 5: Here's his cat set.

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Speaker 3: No, thank you, it's all widdy com splendid. Ask him

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to come up with Missus Hudson, and I hope your

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party is a great success. Missus Hudson, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Are you sure you don't want me to stay now

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that you have a visitor?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, indeed no, Missus Hudson, I

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can show the gentleman out myself. You go off and

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have a good time.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I wonder what Lord would want Perapsize should.

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Speaker 3: Stay, please, my dear fellow, certainly not. Yeah, you far

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more important work to do where it can. Probably wants

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his revenge at chess or something equally innocuous. Off with hill, Right,

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my dear felone and enjoy yourself just the same.

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Speaker 4: I wish you were coming with me.

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Speaker 3: I'll I'll see you later there, come on up when

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he come?

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Speaker 7: Hello, homes, even Watson, you make a very convincing Santa Claus.

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Speaker 8: Are you leaving.

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Speaker 4: Good night?

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Speaker 3: Then?

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Speaker 4: How are your homes all alone?

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Speaker 7: On Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Where to come? I'm glad you came over to

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see me. What's it to be an evening of chess?

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Or have you won some recent preasure of medieval pottery

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that we can discuss? Neither homes come to you in

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your professional capacity? I need help? How will you come

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down telling you that, after all these years of quiet friendship,

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you are going to become a client.

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Speaker 7: I'm afraid their homes though, I doubt if my problem

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will problem will interest you very much. It's hardly up

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to your rather colorful standards.

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Speaker 3: Care for us a girl? Thanks now, my dear Willigham.

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Speaker 7: What your trouble well, I decided this year to have

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a little Christmas party at my townhouse. I'm quite comfortably off,

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as you know, and it occurred to me that I

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have several relatives and friends who are not as well. Lord,

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I'm having a party for them tonight, Homes, and I

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hope you'd attend it disguised as Santa Claus.

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Speaker 3: My dear fellow, I've adopted many disguised as My time

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at father Christmas has never been one of them. Why

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do you want me to attend your party and disguise?

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In any case? You shamed of your friendship with a

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private detective? Or do you consider my features more acceptable

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when buried beneath the depths of a snowy beer.

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Speaker 7: Oh, my dear Homes, do take me seriously. I'm not joking.

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I assure your caution, not a caution.

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Speaker 3: Aren't you you want me to attend your party in disguise?

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Why give some very.

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Speaker 7: Valuable presents diamond and onyx cuff links in platinum and

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ruby earrings and then such like? And I've wrapped each

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of the presents in banknotes. Were aren't these presents now

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in a sack in charge of my butler? I was

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going to dress up a Santa Clause and give him

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out myself until I got the warning letter. That's why

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Speaker 3: Warning letter.

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Speaker 7: Eh, yes, I received it by this evening's post. Listen

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to this, My dear lord Whittickumb, your generosity with Christmas

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presents borders on ostentation.

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Speaker 3: We do not approve either.

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Speaker 7: We receive five thousand pounds in sovereigns at Post Restaurant

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Box three seven nine by six o'clock on Christmas Eve.

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Or I am afraid a Christmas party will be conspicuous

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by its absence of presents.

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Speaker 3: Yes here, thanks m clean paper from a penny notebook.

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do you come? I accept the case. I'll come with

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you to your party at once, and furthermore, I shall

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follow your suggestion regarding your disguise. Rest as Santa Claus,

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I shall be less likely to attract suspicion and delighted homes.

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But what made you decide so suddenly? This writing, my

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dear fellow, is writing. Oh it's a in a false hand.

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I'd know that characteristic m in my dear Whittcumb, I've

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seen it too often at the beginning of a signature. Mariotti, Mariotti.

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Who oh, one of the cleverest and most unscrupulous criminals

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in England. Whittickumbe there's no time to be lost. It's

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slip me see now six thirty, half an hour beyond

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the deadline giving you in this letter Wimscuria house.

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Speaker 5: Once this is as far as the cab can take us.

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Speaker 4: Do Oh here, keb it. It's five shillings for you.

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Speaker 3: Christmas, pressurebody, Christmas, you too.

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Speaker 6: You said you wanted to get into the house through

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the back way so that you could surprise the children.

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Speaker 4: Come down the kitchen chimney.

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Speaker 5: Oh, you can get to the back of the house.

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But going up the alley. Here, I'll go in the

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Speaker 4: Which is the house number twenty eight.

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Speaker 5: It's the third one down the alley.

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Speaker 4: Doctor.

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Speaker 6: I'll have the back window opening no time, and you

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can slip in without any of the beard and see very.

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Speaker 4: Well, gloomy little street. Oh well, where's the music coming from.

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Speaker 6: Oh it's from that temple across the street, doctor. The

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Disciples of the Octagonal Square. They call themselves.

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Speaker 4: What on earth I suppose that means?

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Speaker 5: Oh, some new fangled cult heathens most likely.

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Speaker 4: Oh hello, I'm not the only center close abroad tonight.

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Look at that fell across the street.

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Speaker 6: Oh dress just like yourself, doctor, and carry in a

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sack too. He's running up the steps to the temple.

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Speaker 4: He slipped on the ice. Torry was here him.

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Speaker 5: Oh doctor, didn't trip for yourself.

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Speaker 9: Give me your hand, thank you, sir, fellow of me.

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Wasn't it close to help each other?

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Speaker 10: You know?

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Speaker 4: You come doctor?

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Speaker 5: I told you to be careful.

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Speaker 4: Now you fall into well, it's just confounded red coat

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of min it it put me up?

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Speaker 5: Did you have yourself?

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Speaker 4: I think? How about you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm all right. Thanks hilly of me to run,

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wasn't it?

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Speaker 4: Here's your sex?

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Speaker 9: Thank you, good night and marry Chris Matt.

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Speaker 4: You temple disciple, pagonal square.

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Speaker 5: You're sure you know how to doctor?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, of course, give me my sex please. Thank

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Your sister's house is the third one down the sallaway.

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Speaker 5: Sir, I'll harry you up in the back window, and

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so I'll.

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Speaker 4: Be waiting for him. Missus Hudson rather fun the shame

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Holmes isn't with us?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 4: Probably happier having a good game of chess. With Lord willikem.

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Speaker 7: This is my house, Homes number thirty nine an.

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Speaker 3: I'm Panson Square, and dear Old Watson is just around

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the corner in Lexington Gardens and hasn't any idea that

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I've left bags here?

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Speaker 8: You are, Caddy, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 4: Have merry Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Shir uh huh? Isn't that coers?

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Speaker 7: Yes, we'll probably have our fiel to him before this

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evening's over.

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Speaker 3: Good evening, Milorde.

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Speaker 7: Have the Have the guests arrived agreed?

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Speaker 3: Most of them are?

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Speaker 11: They're in the library. You brought another Santa Claus with you?

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I see, Milord, another Santa Claus.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean?

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Speaker 11: The gentleman arrived three quarters of an hour ago, Sir,

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dressed to Santa Claus. I took him to your study

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in the Lord and showed him the sack of present unfounded.

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Speaker 3: It's got here for for us? Where's this study?

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Speaker 4: In this way?

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Speaker 11: I hope I didn't do wrong, Milord. You told me

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that a gentleman dressed to Santa Claus would be coming here.

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Dear me, the gentleman appears to have gone, yes, and

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the sack containing the presence with him, But he can't

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have left house milorda, I've been watching the front door.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and while you were doing that, he slipped down

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through the window.

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Speaker 3: Here. The catch is undone. I'm grave describe this man.

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I can't tell you much about his appearance. I'm afraid, sir.

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He was dressed as Santa Cla, just like yourself. But

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I did notice one thing about him, sir, Oh what

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was that he listened? Was quite pronounced? Of course. Lou

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the lisper On is Lou the List, one of Mariati's

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most trusted accomplices. Fortunately ago, I've had news of him

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later through my underworld grapevine.

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Speaker 7: You you know where he lives.

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Speaker 3: He's reputed to have some connections with a new cult

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that calls themselves the Disciples of the Octagonal Square. The

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headquarters just around the corner from here. Let's go there,

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and yes, sir, get a message to Scotland Yard as

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fast as you can. Ask for inspectorless child and tell

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him to join me at the Temple of the Octagonal

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Square in Lexton Gardens as soon as possible.

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Speaker 5: Well, the children are afully excited.

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Speaker 3: Doctor.

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Speaker 4: I told him he just can tell the bed on

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and then I'll go into them.

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Speaker 5: Will I announce you you.

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Speaker 6: No children, client, Santa Claus is coming to see you,

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and he's brought your old present.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, children, my name Jelf.

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Speaker 12: Did you bring me a pregnant.

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Speaker 4: Look a minute, they call me Bertie.

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Speaker 12: Did you come down the chimney?

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Speaker 6: Yeserie that you had a time doing it, and you're

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so fast there to Santa Claus won't give you your present?

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Speaker 4: And what your name? Little man?

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Speaker 3: Though I've got a cold.

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Speaker 13: You have?

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Speaker 4: Will? Children gather around men, I'll see what present I

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got for you. The first present is for I'll be right,

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says for her grace the do duchess.

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Speaker 6: Of Do you suppose mister Holmes has been playing a

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practical joke and you don't you.

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Speaker 4: Suppose I can't see the point. But he did say

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that he'd added a few trinkets of his own. I

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want my pleasure, then, supposing you take this, Elsie, thank you,

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and this one is my for the reverence offer Carter Holmes.

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It up to here your birdy s and this is

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for you, Ladel, because you've been a good little.

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Speaker 5: Boy to the very big is it?

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Speaker 12: I wanted the dog.

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Speaker 4: Because we'll I bring you a dog next year, Launeld

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Doctor Watson.

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Speaker 5: Yes, look at the rapping in these presents. Dr Brother

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twenty found notes.

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Speaker 4: Got oh, look what I do? Let me see why

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kathlings and well, unless I'm very much was taken, I

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heart have it. Let me see swear that these are

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tachment rubies. What in thunder's going on?

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Speaker 12: I want my hearing back.

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Speaker 4: Give me that munch as well? Here you are here?

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Speaker 5: Where do you suppose us after?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, missus Hutson. Perhaps my toys are still

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at the bottom of the sack. I can't understand it.

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I was homes are here instead of dozing in front

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of our far in Baker Street? Where are you?

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Speaker 3: Homes here? But the bed this is the only room

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at the temple that gives them the signs of having

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been lived in. And God bird has been here. But

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I'm a free he's flown inspect less. Start to get here,

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strike a match, Willie Wittigam.

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Speaker 7: Right, h here's a candle on the table.

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Speaker 3: Oh, just a side, Jared, Look on the bed, a

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red coat and a beard, Yes, lul the lispers discarded

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his disguise and gone and with him. I'm afraid you

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are valuable pressure.

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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, here's a sack lying on the floor.

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Oh no, this isn't mine. Look what's in it? A

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toy dog, the fox with chocolates, little girls Doggerry thunder.

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Speaker 3: But this is watson sack.

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Speaker 7: But how on earth could lose the Lisper got hold.

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Speaker 3: Of it somewhere somehow he and Watson must have made

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an accidental change, and Lula Lisper, there's no doubt trying

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to track what's down at this very moment. You must

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work fast wittingam on my friend's life and those are

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missus Hudson and our relatives won't be without Tinker's. Damn doctor,

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you can't break off your story there.

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Speaker 4: But before I go on, I thought we'd never Christmas up.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, that's that's something different. Of course, instead of

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talking about port as I sometimes do, it'll be nice

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to drink some for a change.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm asta the same to you.

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Speaker 7: And now what happened next?

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Speaker 3: Doctor?

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Speaker 2: We left you at the children's Christmas party and Sherlock

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Holmes and Lord whittackmb around the corner at the temple

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of the octagonal Square.

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Speaker 4: Yes, though at the time, of course, I had no

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idea what was going on there. I was cheerfully handing

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out gibbs Worth will not at King's at least to

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baron its ransoms and outside the temple of the Octagonal Square, Holmes,

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Lord WIICKM, we're talking to inspections.

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Speaker 3: God, it seems to me, Lord WHITTICKM, you'd have been

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wiser to get in touch with Scotland the hard when

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you first got the warning note. We could have nabbed

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him when he came to your house and pinched the

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sack of presence. This is no time for post botins.

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We've got to reach lou the lisp beer before he

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finds doctor Watson. Do you suppose he can do that

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at homes? It wouldn't be difficult. Lu the Lisper is

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nearly as clever as his master professorbody. At the chances

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now that you were followed when you came to bag

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the street tonight, Wittigham, And it's equally likely that Watson

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and Missus Hudson were followed as they left it. Mariati

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Is seldom leaves anything to chance.

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Speaker 8: Well, where did Dr Watson Golan on the.

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Speaker 3: Ate Lexington Gardens? It's just around the corner from here.

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Were in this goo there at once? Might not quite away? No,

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No driver must use a little subtlety. Now Luba Lisper

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wishes to recover that sack of Christmas from Watson. How

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would he invade the party with the least possible trouble

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by dressing up a cent to close again?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 3: No, I think he's over played that role for one evening. Well,

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then I would he try to get in, miss Jones? Oh?

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Come now the strive. A group of people can enter

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any house on Christmas Eve without invitation, without creating suspicion. Exactly,

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my dear fellow, I shouldn't be it all surprised if

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at this very moment Luba Lisper and some of his

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gang are singing carols outside twenty eight Lexington Gardens.

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Speaker 4: Well, then what are we going to do?

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Speaker 3: Former rival, Caudl Society. How many of your men did

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you bring with you? Three sergeant and two constable? Weren't

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great coats? Yes, miss ros Why good? They can hide

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their helmets and pretend to be singers. Come on, let's

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go over there, and while we're walking we'll rehearse our carols.

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We must appear reasonably convincing. Sandere Lastra sanay.

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Speaker 11: R.

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Speaker 5: No, No, you must make Santa close to you tired.

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Speaker 4: That's all right, missus Hudson. Hop on, hop on, of

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course they can awsome to come in, Missus Hudson. Last,

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come on, let me get you back to Oh no, no,

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take it easy.

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Speaker 5: I want to see your reindeer.

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Speaker 4: Say see my reindeer. Slap on the roof.

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Speaker 12: I'll climb up to steeve.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, you must do that. There asleep. Oh,

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here are the carol singers. Hope you get you we go.

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That's it now, Good evening, gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Good evening, and marry Kreta.

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Speaker 4: Would you like to sing some carols for the children

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after that? I'm sure you'd like to drop the some

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of the warm you up, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: We you're like that.

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Speaker 9: You before somewhere my men, Oh there I am. You

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haven't come on man, Let thing good King went for it.

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Speaker 3: Well, here we are outside the arsemister room. Now watch listen.

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Uh huh Luba whispers. Men are already there are we

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going in now a moment.

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Speaker 4: I'm in.

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Speaker 3: You will have your truncheons handy. It's mister rones. We're

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ready splendid. Now remember when we're inside and I yelled

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Merry Christmas at the top of my voice. You bring

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out your truncheons and get lugal list burns gang out

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of their as quickly as possible. Don't arrest them until

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you get them outside against I don't want to fight mature,

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write your mister rones.

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Speaker 4: We're ready.

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Speaker 3: Just give us the word and we'll go in and

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get them.

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Speaker 4: Oh that was very nice singing. And now how about

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something the woomule?

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Speaker 14: That won't be necessary, Doctor Watson say to the doors hammy,

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now all of you stay right where you are.

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Speaker 4: Who you what did you think you're up to?

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Speaker 14: Please don't be difficult, doctor. All I want is the

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jewels out of my fact that you sold from me tonight.

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If you try and stop me, I shall.

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Speaker 4: Have to hurt you.

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Speaker 12: Why do you talk so funny? You got a cold

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like me?

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Speaker 3: Shut up now? Doctor? Where are the jewels? Oh Christ,

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there are some more carol fingers outside a lot of

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time you got away. No better let them come in.

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If we don't, they might get suspicious.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, person, know what you're up to now?

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Speaker 3: No tricks. Doctor.

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Speaker 15: If you try and give an alarm, I shall have

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to get rough with you or anyone about that. But

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just remember that there are children in President. You are

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here for you right, what you say, you old joint?

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An old carol for the nippers?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: What what do you want to say of the old

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angels sing?

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Speaker 3: All right? All right? Come on man? What think.

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Speaker 13: You?

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Speaker 4: Bonking?

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Speaker 5: Merry Christmas? What's happening each other?

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Speaker 4: I'm here, We're all going away, all right?

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Speaker 11: Come back in?

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Speaker 4: Fun is going on?

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Speaker 3: I'll explain to you later on Jack lest I take

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them to Scotland Yard and prefer charges. I'll be over

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in the little while and give evidence.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 3: Too bad we didn't catch Professor Moriarty too well. At

478
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least we have some of his cohorts. Sounds to you later. Listen,

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I'm telling you what.

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Speaker 4: Was going on here? Is Moriarty mixed up in this business? Yes?

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Speaker 3: What's now? I'll tell you all about it as soon

482
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,839
as I've straightened this thing out. Now, Wickham, the twenty

483
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,200
pound notes that you use is rapping for your gifts.

484
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:10,079
Seemed to have been capital of the house. You want

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me to recover them too?

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Speaker 13: Now?

487
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Speaker 7: From what you've told me of the children, I think

488
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their parents could use the money much more profitably than

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my relatives.

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Speaker 3: In any case, I can replace it a very generous

491
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Christmas gift. Well, children, did you enjoy the little game

492
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we staged for you?

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Speaker 13: It was enough?

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Speaker 12: Yes, I really died laughing when they started hitting.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you've enjoyed the children, and now I want

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you to show me the presence you received. Oh, they

497
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were a part of the game too. A nice little

498
00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:43,759
girl like you just want silly earrings, Elsie, here's a

499
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:49,279
beautiful doll for you, right marriage? And what did you

500
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,079
get my little man?

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Speaker 13: Me?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Couugh flinks? Good? Gracious? Who wants cup links when

503
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,079
you can have a clockwork train? Do you want to exchange? Pray?

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Speaker 12: Lord of a ducky? What did the doll?

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00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 3: There's one for you, ladel a nice nice Oh, Jorie

506
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,880
has a nice big box of chocolates too. All s O,

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I ain't as.

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Speaker 12: Much fun since Granny got her finger stuck in a buggle.

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Speaker 4: I still don't understand what's going on home? I must

510
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say it says all the happy Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Yes, missus Hudson, how's the how's the turkey coming home?

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Speaker 5: Little Brady in a few minutes with.

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Speaker 3: The blendid And while we're waiting, perhaps the children will

514
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oblige for something we haven't heard so about this?

515
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Speaker 4: And I know what you mean, Christmas Carol is really

516
00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:43,160
sounds convincing, how about it? Children?

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Speaker 12: All right, come on, help me, Come on, Lael god.

518
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Speaker 2: Right, Well, doctor, that was really a twelfth swell story

519
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:30,359
on a Christmas Eve like this? Do you have a

520
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,720
wish you were back in Baker Street celebrating Christmas?

521
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Speaker 4: There times? Yes, But actually, mister Barker, I'm very happy

522
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,839
right here in my little home. They're on the tables

523
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,400
of your little Christmas tree. There's a fine power in

524
00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:46,640
my fireplace. My two dogs, Monty and Willia are sleeping

525
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,720
peace at my feet. And best of it all, I've

526
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:53,079
got the love of every child in the neighborhood. Yes,

527
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I got a great deal this Christmas Eve, much to

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be thankful for. And what were the troubles of the

529
00:29:58,559 --> 00:30:01,319
world on their way to being settled? It looks as

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00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,400
if this is the brightest Christmas that I've ever had.

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Speaker 16: Well, that's how I feel about it, too, Doctor. I

532
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hope with all our friends listening in are just as

533
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happy as Christmas Eve as we are. And speaking not

534
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,640
only for myself, but I know for all of us

535
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,759
and for the Petrick family too, we wish every one

536
00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:20,160
of you a happy Christmas.

537
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 4: From the bottom of our hearts. God rest you merry gentlemen.

538
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:27,359
Well doctor Watson.

539
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,599
Speaker 3: Next Monday is New Year's Eve. What story do you

540
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,279
plan to tell us?

541
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Speaker 14: Well?

542
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,279
Speaker 4: Good, I think extremely appropriate, mister Bartow. It takes place

543
00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:37,279
in the Scottish castle near Edinburgh on a New Year's

544
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Eve in nineteen hundred and concerns a pair of lovers,

545
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:46,359
an elderly baronet, and a strange iron box that proved

546
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,359
to be more than worth its weight in gold.

547
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 8: Tonight.

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Speaker 2: Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,

549
00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:01,200
and was suggested by an incident and the Sir Arthur

550
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,240
Conan Doyle story. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Music

551
00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:08,960
is by Dean Foster. Mister Rathbourne appears through the courtesy

552
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,799
of Metro, Baldwin Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy

553
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:14,400
of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in the

554
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:27,240
Sherlock Holmes series. The Petrie Wine Company of San Francisco,

555
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,920
California invite you to tune in again next week, same time,

556
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,279
same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood Studios.

557
00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:44,759
This is Harry Bartel saying good night. For the Petrie

558
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:50,720
Family for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen

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00:31:50,799 --> 00:31:52,920
every Monday on most of these same stations at eight

560
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,839
o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Hole. This

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is the mutual broadcasting system.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Well, a delightful holiday room with so many

563
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:15,559
fun elements, people disguising themselves as harrolers, and of course

564
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:21,440
the kids get every Victorian child's dream Christmas of seeing

565
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:25,839
a good old fight on Christmas Eve. I also suspect

566
00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:31,119
that Harry Bartel snuck into the cast. I actually didn't

567
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,799
suspect it was him, but it does show one of

568
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,359
the challenges of doubling. And while I've heard a lot

569
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of actors double, I haven't heard a whole lot of

570
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:46,079
examples of Harry Bartel playing doubles. And what we saw

571
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,119
after the episode with this, that slot little slip is

572
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,240
what happens when you're doing a particular type of voice

573
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:56,440
for a while and forget to slip back into your

574
00:32:56,759 --> 00:33:01,400
normal presentation. That was a bit of me, But overall

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I always find this episode in a light and the

576
00:33:04,079 --> 00:33:11,319
Christmas message at the end really ties into something and

577
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,680
a bit of a feeling that people had in that

578
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Christmas of nineteen forty five. For the first time in

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five years, it was Christmas and there wasn't a war

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going on, and there's just a beautiful sigh of relief,

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and I hope that things really are getting better, not

582
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just that we're going to make progress in the war

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as they might have had in previous Christmases, but that

584
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,079
some problems were going to be solved, and certainly there

585
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,240
was just a bit of a rest after all of

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the turmoil of the past few years. Well, now we're

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going to turn to our second special. This one comes

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from December the twenty first, nineteen forty seven, and this

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one will be John Stanley and the Adventure of the Christmas.

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Speaker 17: Bride from New York, the makers of cliver Craft Clothes

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00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:26,000
for Men, and nine hundred and twenty four leading retail

592
00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:30,039
stories from Coast to Coast present the world's most famous detective,

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Sherlock Holmes. Our stories are based upon the character of

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Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Argred Colan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes

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is portrayed by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Alfred Shirley,

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and the dramatizations are by Edith Miser.

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Speaker 8: Well here we are about to order doctor Watson's from

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in your study. Oh what's this? We find the good

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doctor hanging up his Christmas hobby, not for getting a

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sprigger of missiletone. Mister Harris, hope springs the turnel, as

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they say. But here, help me down from this chair.

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My old legs are to that giant.

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Speaker 18: As they were in the days when I followed homes

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through the dungeons and up the task stairs of old

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Pensdagen Castle, there were.

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Speaker 17: Aer face that sounds suspiciously like the beginning of a

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Sherlock Holmes yarn.

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Speaker 18: Doctor Watson it is, mister Harris, it is. Holmes always

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called it the Adventure of the Christmas Bride. It concerns

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a ghostly lady in white who was supposed to have

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00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:44,320
disappeared centuries ago the honor of a noble family had

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a certain Father Christmas who suddenly sang bass.

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Speaker 8: And now, while I fix us both of you.

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Speaker 18: Tied Tory, suppose you tell our friends and listeners about

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00:35:53,039 --> 00:35:55,840
a gifted man in our audience would welcome from Father

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00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:01,039
Christmas orders you Americans call him Sataclaus pleasure, doctor Watson,

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and not only from Santa Claus.

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Speaker 17: A thrifty man can give himself a worthwhile gift anytime

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if he insists on clipper Craft.

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Speaker 8: For clipper Craft clothes keep on giving for a long

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00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:13,880
long time.

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Speaker 17: First of all, you've never seen such truly fine clothes

623
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:21,679
at such really low prices. That means you pocket the savings.

624
00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:24,920
That's the first gift to yourself. And they also give

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00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,119
you superb styling, perfect fit and long wear. Clipper Craft

626
00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:31,960
clothes give you so very much because of the unique

627
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,239
Clippercraft plan concentrating the buying power of nine hundred twenty

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00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,239
four of the nation's leading stores from coast to coast.

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That means tremendous savings in manufacturing and distribution costs. And

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00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:47,840
yours are the savings this brilliant plan makes possible. Clipper

631
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Craft suits are only forty and forty five dollars, clipper

632
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:54,880
Craft top coats and overcoats only forty dollars, and sport

633
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,039
jackets only twenty six fifty. Clipper Craft values are so

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00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:02,239
amazing we urge you to compare them with clothes selling

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00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:12,000
for many dollars more. And now how about that Christmas

636
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:13,360
bride Doctor Watson.

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00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 18: Her name is Genevra, and she was the heir and

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00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:20,039
only child of Lord Robert Neville, tenth Earl and fifty

639
00:37:20,079 --> 00:37:25,079
fourth Baron Pensdragon of Pensdragon Castle. Yes, I shall never

640
00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:29,039
forget my first glimpse of that ancient and somewhat forbidding edifice,

641
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:33,480
the walls gray and bleak, without the summer covering of ivy,

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the tars square and defiant, with the red or rouge

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Dragon Pennant angrily defying the winter gales.

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Speaker 8: Will as I was saying a rather urgent message.

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Speaker 18: From Lord Neville on elegant Embusstationery had arrived at two

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twenty one b Baker Street. Would mister Hoes and Dr

647
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Watson do him the honor of a visit to Pensdragon

648
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over the Christmas holidays. The visit to include the wedding

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of his daughter led Geneva to the immensely wealthy but

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00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,719
slightly middle aged went with Tymingham, which was due.

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Speaker 8: To occurred on the second day of the New year.

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Now don't tell me.

653
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Speaker 17: The eminent mister Sherlock Holmes was called in to guard

654
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the wedding presence.

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Speaker 8: Doctor watch hardly mister Harris at any rate.

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Speaker 18: The day before Christmas, Pound us a lighting from our

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train at a small station in the Cumberland Hills, which

658
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as you know, are situated in the north of England,

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there had been a slight fall of snow. An ancient

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carriage with great wheels and the naval arms on the

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door was down up to the station platform, while the

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anxious peace of the Lord of the manor himself in

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top hat and ear mups peered through one of the

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steamy windows.

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Speaker 19: Mister Arms and doctor Watson, that's right this way, gentlemen,

666
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His Lordship expect your encourage.

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Speaker 8: Quite a fall of snow you've had here, I sir,

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more common my right.

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Speaker 18: We should have brought the sleigh only his Lordship loaded

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in the pickup for tomorrow night.

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Speaker 19: Vica always plays by the Christmas if they all Christmas Eve,

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than knows and mister Ormes.

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Speaker 8: And doctor Watson.

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Speaker 17: Good afternoon, gentlemen, Good afternoon. You'll hop in before you

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00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:07,920
freeze to death?

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Speaker 8: Are you here?

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Speaker 17: Mister Holmes? There your friend opposite ha And now then

678
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,079
Denni's back to penns Dragon as fast as you can.

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I'm a lot, mister Holmes. You are doubtless curious as

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to why I've invited you and doctor Watson to share

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00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,039
our yule Tide celebrations at pens Dragon. To be quite honest,

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00:39:24,079 --> 00:39:25,920
Lord Neville, I didn't think it was entirely for the

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pleasure of our society. Although Watson is quite an asset

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when it comes to carol singing.

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Speaker 8: Oh no, certainly not a baritone. That's good.

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Speaker 17: The vicar who leads the Christmas singing, he is rather

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proud of his tenor voice, and I may say he's

688
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:46,199
not too fond of competition. Mister Holmes, I have invited

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you to pens Dragon to make sure that nothing, nothing

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occurs to prevent the marriage of my daughter to mister

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00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,480
Wentworth's Trimmingham.

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Speaker 8: Why is that marriage so imperative, Lord Nevil.

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Speaker 17: To be brutally frank, mister Holmes, the neverle Es states

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are more up to the ears. If the marriage does

695
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,320
not go through on the second of next month, I

696
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should be bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

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Speaker 8: You see.

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Speaker 17: Has anything occurred, Lord Neville, to make you fear that

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this marriage may not take place?

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Speaker 8: Well, no, that is nothing definite. Perhaps the lady Geneva

701
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hasn't been able to hide her distaste for the may

702
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Oh no, no, no, nothing like that.

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Speaker 17: I wouldn't say it was a passionate attachment on either side,

704
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but they like the same things. She laughs at all

705
00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:29,280
his jokes. What better foundation could one ask for a marriage,

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Jay Watson, That's what I should have said. Well, everything

707
00:40:33,079 --> 00:40:35,519
was as smooth as silk until the Dowadier Duchess of

708
00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:38,480
Terse gave the engagement dinner last month. It was at

709
00:40:38,639 --> 00:40:41,599
her suggestion that I sent you the invitation to Pens Dragon.

710
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:45,400
She's been decidedly edgy ever since Percy returned in the

711
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,119
midst of the betrothal dinner two weeks ago.

712
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,079
Speaker 8: Percy as Percy is my cousin.

713
00:40:49,159 --> 00:40:52,159
Speaker 17: Although he's only seven years older than Geneva, he's our

714
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,920
next of Kine. As a matter of fact, he's an

715
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,199
orphan and lived with us at Penn's Dragon until he

716
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,480
went off to Canada to seek his fortune two years ago.

717
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 18: Things should happen to your daughter before she produced an air,

718
00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:04,880
would Percy nevil In ahead it?

719
00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:07,199
Speaker 8: Yes, Doctor Watson.

720
00:41:07,559 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 17: Both the title and the estates Percy Neverell's return was unexpected.

721
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,159
I gather it was unexpected and melodramatic, to say the least.

722
00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:17,840
The betrothal dinner was being held in the Great hall

723
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,599
of Penn's Dragon Castle. My daughter had just risen to

724
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:25,880
return the bridegroom's toast. As she lifted her glass, a

725
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,599
casement window was thrown violently open, and Percy walked in

726
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:30,519
out of the night.

727
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 12: And now I should like to make a toast to

728
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,440
my future bridegroom.

729
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:47,559
Speaker 8: Percy isn't fairly decide to make such an abrupt lady.

730
00:41:48,679 --> 00:41:50,400
But I came as soon as I received news of the.

731
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 13: Engagement, Percy, Why didn't you let us know you were coming.

732
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 8: Let you know, let you know when you never bother

733
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:56,320
to answer my letters?

734
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 12: But Percy, we never received any letters. We we thought

735
00:41:59,440 --> 00:41:59,880
you'd forgot.

736
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 20: I've forgotten, so if that would have mattered, Percy, that's

737
00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:06,760
not true. You know how fond we are of you,

738
00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:12,639
how touching Percy. This is Wentworth, Wentworth, Timmingham, my future bridegroom.

739
00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 8: This is the little man they've sold you to stop

740
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:18,360
it at once.

741
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 13: I'm very fond of Wentworth.

742
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 8: Are you, my dear Geneva pussy?

743
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:23,639
Speaker 13: Why do you look at me like that?

744
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 19: You think you should so soon forget our family motto

745
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:30,320
nay bla baalis The name never means that, you know,

746
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,039
nay bela baalis.

747
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 8: Nay v la venis Let did I take it a home? Quite?

748
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,239
It means stooped to nothing base.

749
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 17: In case you've forgotten your abbit Watson, oh teacher grandmother

750
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,079
to suck eggs.

751
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 8: Tell me, Lord Neville, what happened after Percy quoted the

752
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:55,880
family motto to your daughter.

753
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,559
Speaker 17: He stamped off to his old rooms in the tower

754
00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:00,639
and hasn't been out of them since. How does the

755
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,159
Lady Geneva react to this unfriendly behavior? Who, she says,

756
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,159
let himself, it's no concern of hers. Lady Turse, on

757
00:43:06,199 --> 00:43:09,400
the other hand, is thoroughly unnerved by Percy's return. Oh

758
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,480
is she feels sure he'll do something outrageous. The day

759
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:15,239
of the wedding, Paul wentworth as his edgy as a

760
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,199
hen on a hot driddle. Well, of course, that may

761
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,119
be due to his encounter with a white lady. White

762
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:24,320
lady who she the ghost of the first Geneva. You know,

763
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,480
the bride who played hide and seek on her wedding

764
00:43:26,599 --> 00:43:29,480
night and was never seen alive again. Years later, her

765
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,559
skeleton was found in her great dour chest, still dressed

766
00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:36,000
in her wedding gown. She'd hidden in there, and somehow

767
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,440
the hasse must have fallen down and she was locked

768
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:39,679
in and smothered to death.

769
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 8: Seems to me I remember a rather famous perm on

770
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:42,840
the subject.

771
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,519
Speaker 17: Oh yes, So all the Genevas and the Neville family

772
00:43:45,559 --> 00:43:48,599
have been named after her. She's supposed to walk through

773
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,039
the halls of the castle whenever a misfortune is due

774
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:54,079
to a curtain cheerful dams or her homes. When and

775
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,719
how did went worth trimming and meet the lady? Well,

776
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,599
mister Holmes, it seems it's his habit to knock on

777
00:43:59,679 --> 00:44:01,639
my door, his door on his way to bed to

778
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,559
wish her good night. Last night, the wind was rather high,

779
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:09,079
and he couldn't seem to make my daughter hear. Suddenly

780
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:13,719
heard a strange creaking noise down the corridor behind him.

781
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,519
Speaker 8: Looking round, he saw the lid of the dourk chest

782
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:29,800
rice slowly. Geneva, Geneva, my DearS, I went birth. I

783
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,519
come to bid you good night. Geneva.

784
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 17: Are you there, Geneva?

785
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,159
Speaker 8: Call me?

786
00:44:39,119 --> 00:44:39,519
Speaker 21: What was that?

787
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:41,559
Speaker 3: Good Lord?

788
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 13: Put the lid of the chest rising?

789
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 8: There's something woman in white. She's rising out.

790
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:49,119
Speaker 13: Of the chest.

791
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 17: Who are you the first Geneva?

792
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,679
Speaker 3: You call to me?

793
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 22: So I have come to warn you away.

794
00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 13: Way before it is slight.

795
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,079
Speaker 8: Then what happened, Lord Noble to nothing, mister Holmes.

796
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 17: Apparently the white figure glided past my daughter fiance and

797
00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:22,000
disappeared up the task steps.

798
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:23,199
Speaker 8: What did the lady look like?

799
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,519
Speaker 17: Blonde Brunette Wentwell, says her features were hidden by the

800
00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:30,639
bridal veil. Yes, interesting, I suppose anyone in my house

801
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:33,480
would have access to that tower chest. On the contrary

802
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,199
of mister Holmes, too many people are possessed of insatiable curiosity.

803
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 8: I keep the silly thing safely petlocked.

804
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 17: I promise you how many keys are but to that petlock,

805
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,679
one which I keep by me here on my hearing.

806
00:45:46,760 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 18: Very wise precaution, I say, Holmes, your bed is even

807
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,480
larger than the one in my room. But it tells

808
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:09,840
me Queen Victoria slept there when she paid a visit

809
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:10,880
in eighteen forty six.

810
00:46:11,119 --> 00:46:11,559
Speaker 8: It looks so.

811
00:46:11,639 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 17: Superior, Watson. Queen Elizabeth, I'm told, slept here quite a

812
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:16,400
few years before that.

813
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,639
Speaker 8: Come in, our lady.

814
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,599
Speaker 18: TuS beautiful and charming as ever, stuff and nonsense.

815
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 13: Glad to see you both of you. Something's going on here?

816
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:29,079
Don't like it?

817
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,519
Speaker 23: What sort of something are you referring to? Lady Turse,

818
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,800
dont no. If I did, shouldn't have sent for you.

819
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,039
Jenevra looks as if Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

820
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,639
Speaker 13: Bad sign. Percy looks like a Thundertowe. That's worse.

821
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 8: I thought Percy locked himself in his rooms and refused

822
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:43,440
to see anyone.

823
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,679
Speaker 23: I'd like to see anyone refuse to see me. But

824
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,280
I'm gavin. You will want to view the premises.

825
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 8: Yes, First of all, I'd like to inspect that dour chest.

826
00:46:53,639 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 17: It might be interesting to investigate how a lady in

827
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,760
white can emerge from a carefully padlock coffer.

828
00:46:59,159 --> 00:47:02,679
Speaker 13: Then you don't think it was a ghost? Neither do I? Well,

829
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,320
what was she up to?

830
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 17: We should be able to answer those questions better, Lady Tursts,

831
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,280
after you've had a look inside that box. I wonder

832
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,519
if you could persuade Lord Neville to lend us the key.

833
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 13: Here's the key, mister Holmes. Lord Neville insists on bring

834
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,719
it back the moment we're finished with it.

835
00:47:24,039 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 8: Suspicious, old boy, he Holmes.

836
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 23: Not suspicious doctor Watson fussy? Well, mister Holmes, where the delay?

837
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,360
Open the silly chest. Let's see what's inside.

838
00:47:33,119 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 17: So fast, lady Turst, not so fast. First, let's have

839
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,039
a look at the lock, every old bit of machinery.

840
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,159
It's almost impossible to pick it without showing signs. There

841
00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:42,079
are no signs.

842
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 18: Then whoever opened it used that key? Not necessarily wanton.

843
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,519
But there's only one key. Lord Neville told us so.

844
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 13: And if Robert says a thing, it's gospel.

845
00:47:50,119 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 8: Yes, interesting carving around the lock. The wood's pretty old.

846
00:47:53,639 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 13: Naturally open it up, find dying of curiosity?

847
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,519
Speaker 17: Really well, lucky joy, it hasn't been unlocked for some time.

848
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,039
I'll remove the padlock. Here, Watson hold it now, Lady Ters,

849
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:11,119
if you'll help me raise the lid, right, good lord?

850
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 8: What's then?

851
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,519
Speaker 23: Oh it's th Genevra's spaniel goes everywhere with her regular shadow.

852
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 13: Oh, yes, here she can.

853
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 12: Hello there, I'm Genevre. Why you must be Sherlock Comb's and.

854
00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 13: Doctor Watson delighted.

855
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,119
Speaker 12: Don't let me stop you, mister Holmes. You want father

856
00:48:26,199 --> 00:48:28,480
told me what you're up to. I'm dying to see

857
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:31,039
what's in the chest too. Go ahead, open it up?

858
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 22: Thought down boy.

859
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 8: You see it's a biggish box, isn't it. Yes, a

860
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:38,760
woman could easily hide in there.

861
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,559
Speaker 13: Something white and satin lying on the bottom. Wonderful.

862
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:46,639
Speaker 12: It must be her wedding dress. I've always heard it

863
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:47,480
was still in there.

864
00:48:48,119 --> 00:48:50,639
Speaker 22: Remarkable to find it in such good condition after all

865
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:51,280
these years.

866
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 17: The remarkable thing about it, Lady Geneva, is this dust

867
00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:56,519
and dirt on a hymn. Watson, give me an envelope.

868
00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:57,559
I shall want to take a sample.

869
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 12: But that's fascinating.

870
00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 22: I've heard simply fabulous things about you, mister Holmes, and

871
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:03,760
now I believe them.

872
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 17: Everyone do you yes, I think we've seen everything there

873
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:08,599
is to be seen here.

874
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 8: Watson, you may close the lid and lock it right.

875
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 3: Uh huh.

876
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,199
Speaker 19: So this is mister Sherlock Holmes and his famous deductions.

877
00:49:18,679 --> 00:49:21,119
Speaker 8: They told me you were coming. They Who's they? I

878
00:49:21,199 --> 00:49:22,760
understood you to put no one in here, not even

879
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,719
the maid. You've overlooked, Lady Terse. Try to keep her

880
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:26,440
out of anything.

881
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 13: I didn't mention, mister Holmes. Perfect or did?

882
00:49:29,519 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 19: I don't look so suspicious, Lady Terse. I've decided to

883
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,719
be a good boy. I've even decided to come downstairs

884
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,760
tonight and join in the Christmas Eve festivities.

885
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 13: Perfect that gleam in your eyes. I've known you too long,

886
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:46,320
you're up to something.

887
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,280
Speaker 17: If you want to know what satisfying people really means.

888
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:03,840
Skinny man who wears Clippercraft clothes, he'll sing their praises

889
00:50:04,079 --> 00:50:07,960
with good reason too. For values like Clippercraft amaze even

890
00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:11,920
clothing experts. Until you see Clippercraft clothes and try them on,

891
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,320
you won't believe such really superb suits are possible at

892
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,960
only forty and forty five dollars, and such rich, long

893
00:50:19,039 --> 00:50:22,519
wearing top coats and overcoats at only forty dollars, such

894
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,559
very smart sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. For

895
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,880
just a fraction of what you'd expect to pay, you

896
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,400
get correct styling, perfect fit, and long wearing materials. An

897
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:37,280
ingenious plan makes this all possible, the clipper Craft Plan,

898
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:40,679
which concentrates the buying power of nine hundred and twenty

899
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,320
four of the nation's leading stores from coast to coast.

900
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:46,280
You get the savings that result from this group buying

901
00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:49,880
at your own local independent store, the store you can

902
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,360
trust selling inexpensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the

903
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,239
nation's finest independent stores is the great big idea behind

904
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,920
the Clippercraft Plan. That's why men who know insist on

905
00:51:02,119 --> 00:51:05,000
clipper Craft clothes. So be sure to visit the clipper

906
00:51:05,039 --> 00:51:06,239
Craft store in your city.

907
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,199
Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to

908
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,199
add their names to Clippercraft and your Suit, top coat

909
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,039
and overcoat. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at

910
00:51:17,079 --> 00:51:20,320
eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway

911
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,679
at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,

912
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:27,079
New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop cresgy Yarck, And in Jamaica,

913
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,719
the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh

914
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:30,920
eight Jamaica Avenue.

915
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 13: Oh dear, the vick is late down.

916
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 8: I'll calm yourself, Geneva, he'll be here.

917
00:51:51,079 --> 00:51:52,599
Speaker 13: Here's see the snowsuit deep.

918
00:51:53,079 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 19: But if he can't get through, oh don't worry a

919
00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:58,239
slayer's light. He has Vixen, the best horse in the county.

920
00:51:58,440 --> 00:51:59,320
Nothing can pass her.

921
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:04,559
Speaker 8: You know, I hope, so no down what he may

922
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,480
prove to be a bit of a problem, don't you think?

923
00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 4: Goodness?

924
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 13: I hope.

925
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,559
Speaker 12: Oh, mister Holmes, I didn't see you behind that chair.

926
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,559
Speaker 17: An ancient wing chair often provides a good listening post,

927
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:15,360
my dear Now look.

928
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 8: Here, you meddling busy body.

929
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 13: Yes, please, you promised.

930
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,159
Speaker 17: Suppose you allow me to solve the problem of the

931
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:24,159
dark Lady genebrh, would you, I mean listen.

932
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 20: Straight there the figure is driving up here.

933
00:52:28,199 --> 00:52:31,639
Speaker 17: Father Christmas has arrived, opened the door pedal flood Now

934
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,400
then everyone.

935
00:52:34,199 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 19: Good Kingsmas, look down a Lisa see.

936
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 8: And well slowly roll up world.

937
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:50,199
Speaker 17: Jimmy, old, my ridea is hot frozen.

938
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 22: Come along, Father Christmas. First you'll take you into the

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dining room. You can have a hot tardy while you

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00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:56,280
get out of your wrath.

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Speaker 19: That's good idea, A good idea, and better disguise your voice.

942
00:53:00,599 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 8: All the children will guess who you are. That's a

943
00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:09,119
good idea too. Gather around all bringing the Yule log.

944
00:53:10,159 --> 00:53:12,599
Speaker 15: Father Christmas will be with you in a moment to

945
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:16,000
give out the presents to all the good boys and girls.

946
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Speaker 22: There is there your wonderful Now go along, take good

947
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:22,239
care of in Percy.

948
00:53:22,599 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 8: Never fear my fear, mister Harms.

949
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 13: They're bringing in to you lot.

950
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 12: Come and help me set fire to it. Oh, doctor

951
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,079
Watson's caught. Lady turns under the missilete.

952
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 13: I declare I've never had such a Christmas. Come along, Javrah.

953
00:53:39,519 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 12: They're ready for you to like the par Dear, where

954
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,000
did I put the matches?

955
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:44,559
Speaker 4: Oh?

956
00:53:44,679 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 13: Thank you, doctor Watson.

957
00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 22: Lovely, I do like to toast my feet in front

958
00:53:55,519 --> 00:53:56,199
of a you lot.

959
00:53:56,519 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 17: I think your pardon, Lady Janeva, haven't you raised your

960
00:53:59,519 --> 00:54:00,760
skirts of too high?

961
00:54:01,039 --> 00:54:01,159
Speaker 24: Oh?

962
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 23: My goodness, I forgot, my dear, your say is making

963
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,000
quite an ass of himself. Who runs into the library

964
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,960
every other minute to see no one's lifted one of

965
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,000
the wedding presents.

966
00:54:11,199 --> 00:54:14,639
Speaker 8: All that silver and your present, Lady Turs, but diamond Tiara.

967
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,199
Speaker 22: I'll admit that Tiara is a temptation. You shouldn't have

968
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,480
given it to me, Lady Urs.

969
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,159
Speaker 23: It's wonder who, not at all who confounded Louisons given

970
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:24,400
me a headache for years?

971
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 13: Glad to be rid of it. Ah, Here here comes

972
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:27,639
Father Christmas.

973
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 17: Gaggle around the punchbone, everyone, and we'll have a drink

974
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:31,880
or so before we give out the present.

975
00:54:33,039 --> 00:54:34,159
Speaker 8: We should.

976
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 13: I say that, Father Christmas, I mean a start us

977
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,440
off on a cattle car. Drick correct nog without a song?

978
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 17: Right you are, air lady, But the rest you very

979
00:54:46,679 --> 00:54:50,719
gentle man nothing you dismay.

980
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 25: On Christmas, jolly like a good old fashion English christm

981
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:09,480
see dick, car and choy, Come.

982
00:55:09,559 --> 00:55:13,760
Speaker 4: And joy all time? Come?

983
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 17: What time? Hello there, Father Christmas? Not leaving us so soon? Well,

984
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,360
that is a long ride home. Must get going. I

985
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,360
don't tell the others. I wouldn't want to disturb the

986
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,079
party quite. How about a hot toddy before you leave?

987
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 8: Still a cup?

988
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,079
Speaker 17: You know, I haven't time, haven't time? I thought you

989
00:55:38,199 --> 00:55:40,559
might say that, so I prepared this jug full of grog.

990
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:41,719
Keep it well wrapped.

991
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 8: It'll keep you warm.

992
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 17: It's a long cold drive to Gretna Green. But mister hone,

993
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,599
no time to waste. Hung your way, Father Christmas, think

994
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,679
of me. When you drink the grog, we will watle whastle.

995
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,199
Many Christmas and a happy New Year.

996
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,119
Speaker 8: Hello? What's this Vica?

997
00:55:58,280 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 22: Off?

998
00:55:58,519 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 8: So soon? Yes? Lord? And he seemed in a hurry

999
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,960
to get home. Can't blame him. The cold night.

1000
00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 21: Let us get inside before we freeze to death. Good idea, Oh,

1001
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:10,000
I say they're ready to start the dancing. Wentworth's trying

1002
00:56:10,039 --> 00:56:12,679
to find to Nebra so they can lead the nuncers. Well,

1003
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,400
hell calling, good heavens, what's.

1004
00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 13: That get me out.

1005
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,559
Speaker 8: Someone's got himself locked in the dungeon.

1006
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 17: This way the entrances through the dining room, was hoping

1007
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,039
for more of a head, starting nothing at all.

1008
00:56:26,559 --> 00:56:27,679
Speaker 8: This is the door to the dungeon.

1009
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,039
Speaker 17: Let me out, Let me out, I saydy, Oh, the

1010
00:56:31,119 --> 00:56:32,880
door has bolted just a moment.

1011
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 4: Get me out of here.

1012
00:56:37,599 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 8: Lord.

1013
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 17: It's the vicar down there in his underwear and trust

1014
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,679
up like a New Year's goose.

1015
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 8: This is an outrage.

1016
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:46,039
Speaker 13: Get me out of here.

1017
00:56:46,519 --> 00:56:49,039
Speaker 17: But if the vicar is here, who drove off in

1018
00:56:49,119 --> 00:56:52,440
the sleigh? Presumably an impostor who stole the vicar's clothes.

1019
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:54,920
I thought it might be, you know, when I heard

1020
00:56:55,039 --> 00:56:57,079
Father Christmas sing bass, say.

1021
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,159
Speaker 18: Homes, homes, where are you? Lady Geneva have fell. They

1022
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:04,480
can't find her anywhere. She disappeared, vanished in the scott Someone.

1023
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,159
Speaker 8: Get the vicar out of the dungeon. I've got to

1024
00:57:06,199 --> 00:57:06,920
find my daughter.

1025
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,199
Speaker 23: Oh, mister Holmes, come quickly. Jan Never has disappeared. Her

1026
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,119
dog is crouched in front of the door chest.

1027
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 17: Oh, harry, gentlemen, the same scoundrel that locked the vicar

1028
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,519
and the dungeons undoubtedly put you Never in the door.

1029
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,039
Speaker 8: Chest, hoping not too late.

1030
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 23: Homes can't start to break the chest open, but the

1031
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,280
dog won't let him near there.

1032
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,079
Speaker 8: I see it, easy, easy, easy thought. The boy his

1033
00:57:30,519 --> 00:57:32,159
is I know, I know what you're trying to say.

1034
00:57:32,239 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 17: We'll get her out and confounded the key, lady test

1035
00:57:35,559 --> 00:57:36,719
what did you do with the key?

1036
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 13: But I gave it back to you.

1037
00:57:38,239 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 12: No you didn't, Oh yes you did too.

1038
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:42,639
Speaker 8: I do, all right, So no your key needed.

1039
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 17: The wood's so old and the staphole's so loose, it's

1040
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,840
quite possible to lift the lock right out like this.

1041
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:50,039
Speaker 3: That's it.

1042
00:57:50,119 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 17: I raised the lid, Great Scott, there's nothing in there.

1043
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 8: Roast of beef. Yes, fours made off with the dumb

1044
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,440
afraid that explains his interest in the chest.

1045
00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:07,039
Speaker 17: But if Geneva isn't here, where is she with Father Christmas?

1046
00:58:07,079 --> 00:58:09,840
I imagine they're heading for the Scottish border in the sleigh.

1047
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:11,559
Don't never catch them, I'm afraid.

1048
00:58:12,039 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 13: Oh of course she's a loped with person. So she

1049
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,480
did talk him round good baha.

1050
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 23: So that's why she trailed off up the tower steps

1051
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:22,960
in that old bridal gown.

1052
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:25,519
Speaker 17: I suspected as much when I discovered some of Percy's

1053
00:58:25,599 --> 00:58:28,280
ashes on its him, Bob, but this is dreadful. I

1054
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,639
should be ruined. We'll have to return all the wedding presents.

1055
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,679
Speaker 23: Personally, I'll make mine a much handsomer contribution. Genever shall

1056
00:58:36,719 --> 00:58:39,440
have the tiara and my emeralds as well. They're worth

1057
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:40,280
the king's ransom.

1058
00:58:40,559 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 8: Lady Turse, you are an astounding female. Four women are.

1059
00:58:45,039 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 13: But we're keeping the dancers waiting. You shall lead the

1060
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:48,679
lancers with me.

1061
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 8: Robert, come along, see Holmes, you old fraud. I believe

1062
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,320
you knew what was going on all the time.

1063
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 17: I suspected, Watson, I suspected, But when I saw the

1064
00:59:01,039 --> 00:59:03,960
lady Geneva raise her ball gone and display a pair

1065
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,519
of traveling boots, I was sure. But come along, Watson.

1066
00:59:07,519 --> 00:59:08,679
We shall have to go down to the kitchen and

1067
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,000
make peace with the cropper. Why that but making off

1068
00:59:11,039 --> 00:59:13,960
with Sunday's roasted beef. Something had to be done to

1069
00:59:14,039 --> 00:59:16,760
keep the dog interested, or he'd have given the show away.

1070
00:59:24,239 --> 00:59:27,039
Speaker 8: Well, that certainly was a Christmas story with all the trimmings,

1071
00:59:27,079 --> 00:59:29,000
Doctor Watson, the delighted mister Harris.

1072
00:59:29,239 --> 00:59:31,719
Speaker 18: And now, while I fill up our glasses so we

1073
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,920
can drink a Christmas toast to our listeners and our sponsors.

1074
00:59:35,039 --> 00:59:37,079
Speaker 8: Nothing will give a greater pleasure, Doctor Watson.

1075
00:59:37,639 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 18: Here's your glass, mister Harris, thank you, and here's to

1076
00:59:40,559 --> 00:59:46,880
our radio friends, young and many Christmas and happiness, prosperity.

1077
00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 17: And peace in the new year, indeed, doctor Watson, and

1078
00:59:49,119 --> 00:59:52,320
warm greetings to all the makers of Clippercraft Clothes and

1079
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:53,159
our doctor Watson.

1080
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 8: How about just a small hint about next week's story.

1081
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,519
Speaker 18: Next week, I think I shall tell you how homes

1082
00:59:58,559 --> 01:00:01,280
and I spent New Year's E off the Silly Isles.

1083
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,119
Speaker 8: New Year's Eve of the Silly Isles. That sounds amusing,

1084
01:00:05,239 --> 01:00:07,679
Doctor hair Raising is the word, mister Harris.

1085
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,199
Speaker 18: You will aboard the luxury lader Gigantic, expecting that any

1086
01:00:11,199 --> 01:00:12,800
minute she would burst into themes.

1087
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 8: There's nothing more telefying, we know, than a fire at sea.

1088
01:00:23,079 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 17: The makers of Clippercraft Clothes and nine hundred and twenty

1089
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,159
four leading stores from coast to coast have brought you

1090
01:00:29,199 --> 01:00:32,280
another in the new series of broadcasts featuring the world's

1091
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:39,039
most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is produced and

1092
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:42,320
directed by Basil Lochran, with special music by Albert Berman.

1093
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 8: If you don't know your Clippercraft Dealer. Write Clippercraft two

1094
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hundred Fifth Avenue, New York City.

1095
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 17: Christmas Seals support the fight to prevent the spread of

1096
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,480
tuberculosis in this community.

1097
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Speaker 8: Buy and use Christmas.

1098
01:00:58,079 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 17: Seals on all your holiday mail, and be sure to

1099
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,719
mail your packages now. Be sure to listen next week

1100
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,920
to Sherlock Holmes in a few year's Eve, off the

1101
01:01:07,039 --> 01:01:10,440
Silly Aisles. If you'd like to attend the Sherlock Holmes

1102
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broadcast in New York, see your local Clippercraft dealer and

1103
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,760
he'll tell you how to obtain your tickets.

1104
01:01:27,519 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 8: This is Cy Harris speaking for Clippercraft Clothes. This is

1105
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,280
the world's largest network, serving.

1106
01:01:32,039 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 17: More than four hundred and fifty radio stations for Neutual

1107
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:35,480
Broadcasting System.

1108
01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:48,679
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well, another really good story. I have to

1109
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:53,400
admit that I didn't in general enjoy John Stanley as

1110
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:57,599
much as I did Basil Rathbone, but listening to this

1111
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,280
episode again, I enjoyed it. I think a lot more

1112
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:04,280
this time than on previous lessons. It really is a

1113
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:09,519
much lighter story, and it's also a solid one for

1114
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:15,360
John Stanley's as Holmes, who in many ways could be

1115
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:21,039
a bit more acerbic and this episode though, kind of

1116
01:02:21,159 --> 01:02:26,000
showed an a conder side to his performance as Holmes

1117
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,679
and a little bit more of a twinkle.

1118
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 8: Which is fun.

1119
01:02:29,239 --> 01:02:33,239
Speaker 1: Even though Watson and he did have a little moment

1120
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,119
of bickering, which is very typical of the way that

1121
01:02:38,079 --> 01:02:42,599
Stanley and Shirley played Holmes in Watson Is, they would

1122
01:02:42,639 --> 01:02:45,719
have these moments of just you know, going at each other.

1123
01:02:46,199 --> 01:02:51,199
It wouldn't be just a situation Holmes was picking on Watson,

1124
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:54,639
but they would kind of have these subtle digs at

1125
01:02:54,679 --> 01:02:57,719
each other, and we thought a little bit of that

1126
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,199
in this episode, but it doesn't get annoying or in

1127
01:03:01,239 --> 01:03:06,039
any way to track from the episode, and overall this

1128
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:12,000
was delightful. It was a little more subdued than the

1129
01:03:12,239 --> 01:03:16,039
Night before Christmas, but still there were some Hodgins and

1130
01:03:16,519 --> 01:03:20,519
Holmes knowing what was going on, but deciding to act

1131
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:26,400
in the best interest of the lady in question rather

1132
01:03:26,639 --> 01:03:31,079
than what her father wanted, but still getting a happy

1133
01:03:31,239 --> 01:03:35,079
ending for everyone for the most part anyway, And of

1134
01:03:35,199 --> 01:03:38,119
course the dog got a really good cut of meat,

1135
01:03:38,239 --> 01:03:41,199
and if the dog ends up very very happy, it's

1136
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:45,039
a really good Christmas. So again, I enjoyed this one

1137
01:03:45,159 --> 01:03:48,079
and I hope you enjoyed both of these episodes and

1138
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:52,159
the nice little contrast we got to hear here. All right, Well,

1139
01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:55,280
now it's time for me to thank our Patreon supporter

1140
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,639
of the day, and I want to thank Adrian, Patreon

1141
01:03:58,719 --> 01:04:04,320
supporter since genuine twenty seventeen, currently supporting the podcast at

1142
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,039
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1143
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,199
or more per month. Thanks so much for your support

1144
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,840
and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying

1145
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,760
the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software

1146
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,119
and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever

1147
01:04:23,199 --> 01:04:27,280
you download it. From next Sunday, we will be returning

1148
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:33,239
to Encourse until January the eleventh, where we will feature

1149
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:37,559
a cross posting of the Great Adventurers of Old Time

1150
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:42,440
Radio and the premiere of Tarzan on that podcast. But

1151
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,719
join us back here tomorrow for Danger with Granger for

1152
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,159
their Christmas episode. Maybe I should go with Christmas with

1153
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,480
Granger now, but tomorrow?

1154
01:04:53,079 --> 01:04:54,519
Speaker 24: Are you Steve Granger?

1155
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1156
01:04:55,119 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 8: What can I do for you?

1157
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:56,159
Speaker 3: Say?

1158
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:57,719
Speaker 10: Some big important job?

1159
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:02,159
Speaker 18: Maybe my name is Frankie, Well, the only Frankie Smith

1160
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:02,320
I know.

1161
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:03,599
Speaker 8: I was a cab driver. I've been a friend of

1162
01:05:03,639 --> 01:05:04,239
mine few years.

1163
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:05,039
Speaker 5: That's my pop.

1164
01:05:05,719 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 13: I was named after him.

1165
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 12: That's why I came to see you.

1166
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 24: He's in bad trouble.

1167
01:05:10,199 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 18: What he's in jail, Frankie in jail.

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Speaker 8: I can't believe that.

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Speaker 19: What you do.

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Speaker 24: He didn't jo anything, but somebody said he didn't and

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now he's in jail. It doesn't look like he can

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get out for Christmas. So I thought maybe you could help.

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Speaker 18: I'll do anything I can.

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Speaker 8: Frank either, But what's your dad accused of?

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Speaker 12: Bugger in the first degree is what MC cops say.

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Speaker 24: But he didn't, I tell you, And you're gonna get

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him out for Christmas.

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Speaker 5: That's the only one.

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Speaker 13: I've done in the world.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you'll be with us then in the meantime, send

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your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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boise Alohol. This is your host, Adam Graham.

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Speaker 8: Sign and all