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Speaker 4: Oh you are, mister bo good evening.
Speaker 1: Oh excuse me, doctor Watson. I didn't know that you
Speaker 1: had company.
Speaker 4: Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
Speaker 4: Hit mestery. Buto, this is my friend, missus Campbell.
Speaker 3: How do you do, missus Campbell?
Speaker 1: How do you?
Speaker 4: Miss Campbell is a very old friend of mine from England,
Speaker 4: and when she called on me today, I've persuaded it
Speaker 4: to stay dinner and then join us in this little
Speaker 4: session of storytelling.
Speaker 1: You see, mister.
Speaker 4: Bartell, she's really what you might call the star the
Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes Adventure that I'm going to tell you tonight.
Speaker 5: Oh come now, Doster Watson. I actually played a very
Speaker 5: small part of the story. In any case, I was
Speaker 5: much too young at the time to know what was
Speaker 5: really going on.
Speaker 2: Say this is a great idea, doctor, One of the
Speaker 2: characters out of your fabulous past. Here in California in
Speaker 2: nineteen hundred, and forty six and helps tell her own story.
Speaker 6: Oh no, mister Bartell, I know storyteller. That's the doctor's department.
Speaker 6: I'll just listen.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll set the scene.
Speaker 1: But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
Speaker 1: In any case, my.
Speaker 4: Memory isn't to tear on some of the early points
Speaker 4: in connection with the case.
Speaker 5: You will have to help me out, hope with your
Speaker 5: top do millions of listeners on the radio. I'd be
Speaker 5: terrified to speak over the air.
Speaker 3: We're on the air now, missus Campbell.
Speaker 6: Oh oh we not are we?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, dear Anna, don't listen to If they're kind enough
Speaker 4: to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
Speaker 4: be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
Speaker 4: with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll.
Speaker 4: The setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
Speaker 4: which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: And not until my dear, the captain going up and
Speaker 1: the first scene belongs to you, supposing you said it
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 5: Well, ah, I'll try. We were living on the Sussex Downs. Also,
Speaker 5: mister Bartel at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning.
Speaker 5: My father, Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but
Speaker 5: my mother kept up the estate with the manager, Miss
Speaker 5: hough Tanner. I was away at school most of the year,
Speaker 5: of course, but the happiest times of my childhood was
Speaker 5: spent during those long summer months in Sussex. I lived
Speaker 5: in a small world, knowing only a few people, and
Speaker 5: loving all of them, or almost all. First of all,
Speaker 5: there was mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman
Speaker 5: in the world, and the sweetest. I remember she gave
Speaker 5: me a puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name he
Speaker 5: was Dusty, and he was so sweet. I talked to
Speaker 5: Mother about him one day. I must have sounded terribly young.
Speaker 8: Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
Speaker 8: a lovely puppy.
Speaker 6: And you gave him to me. You love him, Cynthia.
Speaker 6: I know that, but I've been feeding him. That's your job, darling.
Speaker 6: It's good for grown up people to have responsibility.
Speaker 8: Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
Speaker 6: I I'll feed him so far hip burns.
Speaker 5: Then there was the estate manager, you Tenna, such a
Speaker 5: pleasant man and so willing to tell a twelve year
Speaker 5: old all the things that a twelve year old has to.
Speaker 6: Know are die.
Speaker 8: But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
Speaker 8: He'd only broken his.
Speaker 7: Leg, Cynthia, Horses aren't like human feets, their legs board men.
Speaker 9: I think of a horse that couldn't frisk and run
Speaker 9: and gallop across towns.
Speaker 7: We're actually being kind to him, honest to be, asked
Speaker 7: him good.
Speaker 5: And then there was very King, the painter who lived
Speaker 5: on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
Speaker 5: and really see him.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, Cynthia, that Sansett isn't red.
Speaker 1: It's gold and rushed and the water child, look at.
Speaker 9: It, it's almost rose in this light, rose flicked with cobwebs.
Speaker 1: Think shell blue, don't you, darling? A Santa's never just
Speaker 1: one color?
Speaker 3: Still try and remember that, would you.
Speaker 5: And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
Speaker 5: gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
Speaker 5: marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
Speaker 10: Uh, Cynthia, I am going to give you a half
Speaker 10: a crown for being a very good at a girl.
Speaker 3: Now tell me what will you do with it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, no, my dear, this is your own money.
Speaker 1: You put it in the savings.
Speaker 3: Account at the post office, and it would make more
Speaker 3: money for you.
Speaker 10: Always remember, my dear, take care of the pennies, and
Speaker 10: the pounds will take.
Speaker 3: Care of themselves.
Speaker 5: Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
Speaker 5: the things that aren't in books.
Speaker 6: Always remember my bunny.
Speaker 1: But it's good luck.
Speaker 5: To touch the hump of a hunchwilt.
Speaker 8: But the purso be Aldiva himself will be upon ye
Speaker 8: if you look at the slipper, save the moon through
Speaker 8: the glass.
Speaker 5: And then the strangest and most wonderful of all was
Speaker 5: the lean, middle aged man with a sharp face, and
Speaker 5: the Beannut, whom I meet one day on the downs.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, young lady, Good afternoon.
Speaker 8: I'm Cynthia Barnie, one of his homes. Why are you
Speaker 8: carrying that net you're looking for?
Speaker 10: Back?
Speaker 3: Flat Popapo knows Ynthia.
Speaker 1: I'm a bee farmer, beef farmer.
Speaker 8: Oh that sounds funny, how your farm bee?
Speaker 10: Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
Speaker 10: I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
Speaker 6: Isn't a doll's?
Speaker 8: My mascot was given to be by Frank King, a painter.
Speaker 1: He made it for me.
Speaker 8: He made it to look as much like me as possible.
Speaker 8: I call her me.
Speaker 3: It's remarkable likeness.
Speaker 8: See the hair that's clippings off my hair, and the
Speaker 8: nails though, the clippings from my own nails. She's really
Speaker 8: mean that.
Speaker 3: Your un nailed hair, and the dog isn't exact replico
Speaker 3: of you. I don't like it, Cynthia.
Speaker 10: I remember my dear my name when you were it's
Speaker 10: a Shellack Holmes and I live at the Bee Farm
Speaker 10: and if anything unusual happened, that come to me at once.
Speaker 5: Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
Speaker 5: with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
Speaker 1: You didn't understand why he was so worried about.
Speaker 5: The doll, No, but I remembered what he said about
Speaker 5: coming to him if anything unusual happened.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Boutell, and we did a very few days.
Speaker 5: But at this point I think doctor Watson should take
Speaker 5: over the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really entered.
Speaker 1: In a really well.
Speaker 4: As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I was staying with
Speaker 4: Holmes lately afternoon, as I remember that you ran over
Speaker 4: to the bee farm when I.
Speaker 1: First met you Cynthia.
Speaker 4: A few moments before you arrived, Holmes.
Speaker 1: And I, each of us with a couple of.
Speaker 4: Tea, and our hands were seated on the verandah, gazing
Speaker 4: out across the downs, discussing the mutas drength.
Speaker 10: Watson, after a lifetime to git to the more flamboyant
Speaker 10: aspects of everyday life, that now, in what is the
Speaker 10: fast approaching twilight of my days, I find such peace
Speaker 10: and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior of Fees.
Speaker 3: I wonder what Marigati would have thought.
Speaker 1: You talking as if you're an old daughter of night.
Speaker 4: It you say what you like, and I don't think
Speaker 4: that you will ever really be happy in retirement.
Speaker 1: It us the danger, the excitement of the case the public.
Speaker 3: Of what are you talking about? My work is ever
Speaker 3: for the public a pieces?
Speaker 10: And what did the public, the great unobservant public, who
Speaker 10: can hardly tell a weaver by his tooth dollar types
Speaker 10: that are by his left fun care about the finer
Speaker 10: shades of analysis or deduction In any case, Watson, I
Speaker 10: chose a happy time.
Speaker 3: To sink into oblivion.
Speaker 10: In comparative, every recent years, the criminal seems to have
Speaker 10: lost all his originality and enterprise. My own little practice
Speaker 10: when I gave it up, and seemed to be in
Speaker 10: danger of developing into an agency for covering lost lead
Speaker 10: pencils or giving advice to gaint theates from boarding schools.
Speaker 1: Talking of young lady it is? Who's this little girl
Speaker 1: running up to your driveway?
Speaker 10: Oh, great, Scott, it's a little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie. And
Speaker 10: who wor chomming? Young neighbor of mine?
Speaker 1: Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3: You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
Speaker 11: Mister Homes you told me to come to you. Something
Speaker 11: unusual happened. It has something that's frightened me.
Speaker 3: Well, no, said down, my dear. This is my old friend,
Speaker 3: doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: Oh how do you do, Cintia?
Speaker 6: How do you do?
Speaker 3: Ah, Centitia? What has frightened?
Speaker 6: For? It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
Speaker 4: Through the hot Great Scott, it darl it's an exact
Speaker 4: repercover with a penknife passed into it.
Speaker 10: Gracious way, when did you find your your mascot like this.
Speaker 6: Just a tea.
Speaker 11: Ronnie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
Speaker 11: went up to my room, hasan pour me on the bed.
Speaker 11: I remembered what you told me about anything unusual, and
Speaker 11: so I came over here as fast.
Speaker 3: As I could. I'm glad that you did.
Speaker 1: Did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 6: She was still talking to the gentlemen.
Speaker 1: You worry about you.
Speaker 10: When she discovers your disappearance, I will go over and
Speaker 10: talk to her at once. Cynthia, my dear, Yes, mister Holmes,
Speaker 10: who was a gentleman calling on your mother?
Speaker 11: Well, the wit, mister Tanner, he's the man who looks
Speaker 11: after the estate. The money, mister King.
Speaker 3: Mister King is the man who made this darle Eh.
Speaker 3: Now who else was there?
Speaker 6: Mister Town he's.
Speaker 8: A businessman from London that's staying with money.
Speaker 10: And they were all present in your house when you
Speaker 10: found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
Speaker 10: what's no chap?
Speaker 1: You're so?
Speaker 10: I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother at once. I
Speaker 10: want Cynthia to take care with you. Got her old
Speaker 10: chap as you would life, missus Barning. I know I'm
Speaker 10: seen like an intrusive neighbor, but possibly you've heard of me.
Speaker 3: My name is Holmes.
Speaker 6: Sherlock comes well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Please sit down, won't you?
Speaker 3: Thank you? You are guests have left?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: But how did you know I had guests? I know
Speaker 6: you're a great to take it.
Speaker 10: You know, your charming little daughter, Cynthia came over to
Speaker 10: see me half now, she told.
Speaker 6: Me, so that's where she went? Did she come back quickly?
Speaker 10: No, missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained
Speaker 10: at my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson
Speaker 10: will look after her. I am afraid she may be
Speaker 10: in danger.
Speaker 6: In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 10: Your daughter's dull one, fashioned in her own likeness and
Speaker 10: with her own hair and nails.
Speaker 6: Of course, Franking nade it for her.
Speaker 10: While you were achieve This afternoon, your daughter found the
Speaker 10: doll lying on her bed with a pen knife stuck
Speaker 10: through its heart.
Speaker 6: It's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
Speaker 6: be in any danger because of it, mister.
Speaker 3: Missus Banning, Certain practitioners of magic.
Speaker 10: Believe that if a doll like effigy is made of
Speaker 10: a human being and the effergy is then mutilated, that
Speaker 10: a similar fate will befall the living original.
Speaker 6: That, mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
Speaker 6: in it, not.
Speaker 3: In the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Banning.
Speaker 10: But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
Speaker 10: kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. No, it may be
Speaker 10: more than a possiblity of and when these magical means fail,
Speaker 10: they will turn to more direct methods.
Speaker 6: But who could possibly want her death?
Speaker 1: You were?
Speaker 3: You have not remarried, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6: No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
Speaker 6: to ask as child Cynthia.
Speaker 3: If then, anyone wishing to marry you might feel that
Speaker 3: Cynthia stood in the way. But that's absurd but logical,
Speaker 3: Missus Brownie. Do you mind if I ask you a
Speaker 3: very personal question?
Speaker 6: With Cynthia's safety at stake? You may ask any question.
Speaker 10: Are any of the three men who were present at
Speaker 10: tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you?
Speaker 3: Well, I please be completely honest, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6: At different times they they've all asked me to marry them.
Speaker 10: Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
Speaker 10: husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
Speaker 10: this pen knife before? It was the one unstuck through
Speaker 10: the doll's heart.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever seen it before.
Speaker 10: One final question, anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a knowledge
Speaker 10: of the practice of magic?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman?
Speaker 4: Might?
Speaker 3: Oh who? Might she be?
Speaker 6: A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
Speaker 6: downs near here. She brews, weird concoctions with her love
Speaker 6: filters and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: A suitable companion for your daughter, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6: I know it's, mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
Speaker 6: over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
Speaker 6: old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
Speaker 6: her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
Speaker 3: I like to talk to this woman. And where does
Speaker 3: she live?
Speaker 6: I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
Speaker 6: He used her as a model.
Speaker 3: Thank King the Painter.
Speaker 10: Yes, he lives in the village, and ifall call on
Speaker 10: him at once and persuade him to accompany it. We
Speaker 10: must find that wise woman, and I hope save your
Speaker 10: child from magic, magic, impossible murder.
Speaker 9: Much further, mis king to only a few more yards,
Speaker 9: mister Holmes, I look cottages just behind the trees there.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty.
Speaker 3: Broken down place.
Speaker 1: Poor old girl.
Speaker 3: There's only a few pennies to her name. Missus Ranning
Speaker 3: was telling me that you'll use this old woman model. Yes,
Speaker 3: she was a fascinating subject.
Speaker 1: I painted her.
Speaker 9: She was mixing up some devil concoction of herbs and spices.
Speaker 9: I had her standing over a smoking coldron with the
Speaker 9: firelight playing.
Speaker 3: On her was who was spite?
Speaker 1: The factor?
Speaker 6: Hasn't?
Speaker 3: Must have been the subject of witchcraft, appeals to his king. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about it, which that's just. But
Speaker 3: she was such a wonderful subject for Payton. Here we are.
Speaker 3: I'm knock on the door and I will take the
Speaker 3: liberty of going in. Shine, I don't why not sh
Speaker 3: What is it? This came from that room? Someone is here?
Speaker 1: Come on, look at her, Look at her head.
Speaker 3: Poor She's alive. She's in long for this world? Can
Speaker 3: you hear me? Yeah? Let me lift you up a little?
Speaker 10: Can you understand what I'm saying. Tell me who is
Speaker 10: it that did this to you? She's too pagan speak
Speaker 10: a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
Speaker 10: were thanks. Now you write the name of the man
Speaker 10: who did this to you.
Speaker 9: She's pushing the pencil away. How don't foosh she knows
Speaker 9: how to write. She was trying to show you something,
Speaker 9: mister Holmes. She's trying to crawl over.
Speaker 10: To the wall. Y, yeah, let me help you. It's
Speaker 10: gonna be a hiding place of some kind. Look, she's
Speaker 10: taking a brick out of the door. What is it,
Speaker 10: Great scott money editable Jackdaws, A nest of pennies and
Speaker 10: small silver and at least a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3: That was for the money book.
Speaker 1: She's picking up one of the silver coins.
Speaker 3: She's trying to get to you a sixpence. But what
Speaker 3: a poor woman.
Speaker 12: She's dead just as she was trying to tell me
Speaker 12: something I can't understand it. Don't lose sovereigns in this hovel.
Speaker 12: And she she was showing you a silver sixpence as
Speaker 12: she died. Mister Holmes, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Bert? Check on the young girl's safety?
Speaker 10: Well, I should like you to collect my mother's assembly
Speaker 10: the other two men who were pressing the tea time
Speaker 10: this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrived. I
Speaker 10: shall belong but the police. I shall summon them as
Speaker 10: a king when I have the murderer to offer them,
Speaker 10: and I'm convinced, But that will be before the sun sets.
Speaker 3: Tonight, we'll hear the.
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Speaker 2: always buy Patrick. Now back to doctor Watson and his
Speaker 2: guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played the most important part
Speaker 2: in the story herself.
Speaker 5: Home not nearly as important a part of that played
Speaker 5: by mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
Speaker 3: at the bee.
Speaker 4: Fine, Well, first of all, he made short the little
Speaker 4: girl was safe. Now he told me of finding the
Speaker 4: dead woman and of his theories as to the killing.
Speaker 4: I can almost hear it now, mister Bartels.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 10: Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
Speaker 10: they knew the mother would never marry while the child
Speaker 10: was alive.
Speaker 1: And that's someone persuaded the old woman to.
Speaker 10: Do the job for her must bend outedly, and she,
Speaker 10: believing in the pass of black magic, mutilate the doll,
Speaker 10: firmly convinced that in so doing she was destroying the
Speaker 10: young girl.
Speaker 3: Profession doctor.
Speaker 4: And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
Speaker 4: woman was a million dulging in stupid for cloy, killed her,
Speaker 4: realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
Speaker 4: her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous hindro.
Speaker 10: How do you suppose the account for the horde of
Speaker 10: money golden sovereigns don't get if we found him a hoble,
Speaker 10: No doubt it was the sum she.
Speaker 1: Has already been paid for the murder that she was
Speaker 1: going to commit.
Speaker 3: As she died, she.
Speaker 10: Trying to give me the clue to our murder of
Speaker 10: I selecting certain certain coin. Now in a posession she
Speaker 10: had gold, silver, and copper. She chose a silver coin.
Speaker 10: And yet I can't see it significance. I must confess
Speaker 10: at the moment passed a lot. And yet before the
Speaker 10: evening's over. I bet you look, you say, Watson, I said,
Speaker 10: before the evening's over, I bet you lect, you, old fellow,
Speaker 10: that's the clue.
Speaker 1: You bet me what on earth you're talking about? Homes,
Speaker 1: I'll just say, you'll.
Speaker 3: Just give me the answer to the whole problem.
Speaker 10: Watson, I'm much obliged you stay here with you will
Speaker 10: chap and look out Cynthia.
Speaker 3: A little while longer.
Speaker 10: Within a very short time, I shall have her intended
Speaker 10: destroyer under luck and key.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come.
Speaker 5: I've had the greatest difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen
Speaker 5: that their presence was necessary.
Speaker 10: Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
Speaker 10: be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
Speaker 10: I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
Speaker 10: what happened, Yes, sir, well, uh, mister, I think it's.
Speaker 6: Be a good idea to ney one what happened?
Speaker 11: Ye?
Speaker 3: How do you do, mister Poun?
Speaker 1: Oh, how do you do, mister Holmes?
Speaker 3: And look here? If there's some scandal now there is,
Speaker 3: mister Pown.
Speaker 1: Then I want my name kept out of it.
Speaker 7: You here, I have a seat on the London stoppage.
Speaker 3: Change that is comfortable for you.
Speaker 10: Yes, And the other gentleman, by the process of elimination,
Speaker 10: must be mister Hugh Tanna, the Nana jel of you're
Speaker 10: estate Missus Brown.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm Hugh Candle.
Speaker 7: Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
Speaker 7: all about, I'm as straightforward men in all this mystery
Speaker 7: is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerned us all.
Speaker 3: What is it? Murdered?
Speaker 1: The murder?
Speaker 3: Good lord, who's been murdered? An old woman who lived
Speaker 3: in the village.
Speaker 10: Your daughter, Missus Barning referred to her as the wise woman,
Speaker 10: mister King, and I found her to night in her
Speaker 10: cottage on the downs, beaten to death.
Speaker 3: Murdered.
Speaker 1: Why that's shocking.
Speaker 10: But what's it got to do with I'll explained mister
Speaker 10: carnd Each one of you, I believe would like to
Speaker 10: marry Missus Browning. Her daughter Cynthia is an obstacle to
Speaker 10: such a marriage. One of you decided to remove that
Speaker 10: obstacle and engage the wise woman to carry out the plan.
Speaker 10: Finding the woman clumsy and ineffective, you decided that she
Speaker 10: was a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately,
Speaker 10: the poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the
Speaker 10: crew to her murderer.
Speaker 1: But how did she do that?
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes? I thought you said that she died without speaking.
Speaker 10: She did, Missus Browning, But she gave me the clue
Speaker 10: none the less, though I was shocking the slow and
Speaker 10: spotting it.
Speaker 3: Well, what was the clue?
Speaker 7: Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out.
Speaker 3: Into the opener. You were with me, mister King, as
Speaker 3: she died. I shall let you tell them.
Speaker 1: Well. She was dying, unable to speak.
Speaker 9: When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her, she couldn't write,
Speaker 9: but she showed him a horde of copper and silver coins,
Speaker 9: a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3: Sovereigns in a hovel like that.
Speaker 7: Oh I see, she meant her murderer was the man
Speaker 7: who had paid her, and with all that ill gotten wealth,
Speaker 7: she died touching her silver sixpence.
Speaker 3: Well you is still doctor.
Speaker 1: See who the murderer is?
Speaker 10: Come along, gentlemen, you should know it as well as
Speaker 10: you know your own names. Now, mister King mentioned that
Speaker 10: there were a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest?
Speaker 3: Sovereign? Sovereign?
Speaker 1: King? You thank King were America.
Speaker 9: That's ridiculous. The old woman wasn't exactly a map to mind?
Speaker 9: Why should she be so so indirect? And how much
Speaker 9: is a sovereign worth a pound? And your name, my friend,
Speaker 9: with a seat on the London stuck exchange, is pounds?
Speaker 3: Yet this is absolutely absurd.
Speaker 1: I can prove that I've never even met the woman.
Speaker 6: Well what is the answer, mister Holmes, I'm sure that
Speaker 6: you know it.
Speaker 10: The answer is obvious, Missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
Speaker 10: say that a chance remark.
Speaker 3: Of Dr Watson's came to the clue. Oh no, look
Speaker 3: here I stopped beating about the bush.
Speaker 1: Holmes. What is the art?
Speaker 7: Very simple?
Speaker 10: Ones to pound with twelve golden sovereigns at hand? Sovereigns
Speaker 10: that would suggest either the name of king or pound.
Speaker 10: What coin did the dying woman select? A sixpence exactly,
Speaker 10: a humble silver sixpence, and what is the common slang
Speaker 10: word for a sixpence, a tan precisely, which tells us
Speaker 10: that you, mister Hugh Tanna.
Speaker 3: Killed the wise maidy try and coved, that's.
Speaker 1: All just trying al hus what happened.
Speaker 10: I found the mead road, Jeff, thanks to you mean
Speaker 10: thanks to me well, I was thinking of a sixpence,
Speaker 10: the coin the dead woman clutched in her hand, and
Speaker 10: a sixpence when he said I bet you, I thought
Speaker 10: of the much used expression bet youa tanner, and that
Speaker 10: gave me the kill of the whole business. The dying
Speaker 10: woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner.
Speaker 1: Was her murder, he confess to say before the police arrived.
Speaker 10: Yes, after thank King, the artist had started to give
Speaker 10: him something flashing he deserved.
Speaker 3: Oh, I take no particular pride in the case Watson.
Speaker 10: Without your Chancellor Mark, I might easily have overlooked this
Speaker 10: obvious clue that the dying woman gave me. As I
Speaker 10: said before, Oh, Chap, I should not attempt to emerge
Speaker 10: from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's obvious, but
Speaker 10: my reflexes are shockingly slow.
Speaker 1: Publish. The police would never have solved.
Speaker 3: All My dear Watson, when you compare me.
Speaker 10: With the police, I realized that my retirement should be permanent.
Speaker 10: And by the way, where is Cynthia?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I arranged with your house you preferred to heaven early supper.
Speaker 1: Some kippers of folks they got too a piece of
Speaker 1: that quick.
Speaker 3: Attack we had last night for a twelve year old girl.
Speaker 10: My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
Speaker 10: accuse you of being a potential murderer. Comnor homes you
Speaker 10: perfect should as he comes out hunt dear? Did you
Speaker 10: enjoy your supper?
Speaker 1: Was lovely?
Speaker 6: Here's your mister Holmes.
Speaker 8: Is everything all right to go home now?
Speaker 10: Yes, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear. Did
Speaker 10: you ask mister King to make that masket for you?
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 8: The wise woman told me it would bring me a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I thought so.
Speaker 8: Mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: Will everything be just like before?
Speaker 10: No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the Wise Woman
Speaker 10: have gone a where you you won't see them again.
Speaker 3: Oh, dear, but you have you friends here, haven't you.
Speaker 6: Yes, and nice ones.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Cynthia, We'll always be your friends.
Speaker 6: I will doc to Watson. I like you both so much.
Speaker 3: I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
Speaker 3: King the Artist?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
Speaker 5: He's like my daddy.
Speaker 10: Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
Speaker 10: tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
Speaker 10: it might change peculiarly foolish no slippers.
Speaker 2: Well, Dr Watson and Missus Campbell, that was a really
Speaker 2: different kind of story.
Speaker 1: I'm sure glad you were here tonight.
Speaker 3: Missus Campbell. Tell me has Dr Watson changed much since
Speaker 3: you last saw it?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: Yes, I think he's grown handsome.
Speaker 1: And what about Missus Campbell?
Speaker 3: Doctor, has she changed?
Speaker 1: Well, she's more grown up for the last time I saw,
Speaker 1: but she hasn't changed much in one respect. Who was that?
Speaker 6: Doctor?
Speaker 1: Your appetite?
Speaker 4: I remember our homes was amazed the mouth you whit
Speaker 4: when you were a child, but was certainly at justice
Speaker 4: hot there dinner toceive me.
Speaker 5: Well, that was your fault, doctor, Your dinner was too good.
Speaker 1: Oh, since it don't don't talk about the wine.
Speaker 6: Shouldn't I talk about the wine? It was wonderful, Sure
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 3: It was Petrie wine.
Speaker 2: That's why you see got him started, and missus Campbell,
Speaker 2: Petrie wine is always good wine. That's because the Petrie
Speaker 2: family has been making wine for generations, ever since long
Speaker 2: ago when they started the Petrie business. Wine making has
Speaker 2: been an arfe with the Petrie family. It's a tradition,
Speaker 2: a heritage that they've handed on down from father to son,
Speaker 2: from father to son. Believe me, when it comes to
Speaker 2: turning luscious sun ripe and California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine,
Speaker 2: well you can match your last dollar that the Petrie
Speaker 2: family really knows how. No matter what type wine you
Speaker 2: prefer for any occasion, you just can't miss with a
Speaker 2: Petree wine because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
Speaker 2: doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes's adventure? Are you planning
Speaker 2: to tell us next week?
Speaker 4: Well, as nixt we got Saint Patrick's days about six
Speaker 4: days a way, mister Bartella, I thought next week, did
Speaker 4: I tell you a rather unusual story that took place
Speaker 4: at Ireland at the turn of the Century concerns the
Speaker 4: famous ceremony of Kissing Brown Tone, Saint Patrick's Night revel,
Speaker 4: and an old Irish ballad that fled directly to one
Speaker 4: of the most devilish murders that Chilock Holmes and I
Speaker 4: ever encountered, The Knight.
Speaker 2: Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Speaker 2: Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Arthur
Speaker 2: Conan Doyle story.
Speaker 3: The Adventure of the Copper Beaches.
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Speaker 2: Holms series. You can read about the stars of our
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