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Speaker 2: Petree Wine brings you.
Speaker 1: Nasil Rockbone and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures of
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took time
Speaker 1: to bring you good wine. Invite you to listen to
Speaker 1: doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared with
Speaker 1: his old friend, got Master.
Speaker 2: Detective Shrlock Holmes.
Speaker 1: Well, right about now you are probably taking a little
Speaker 1: breather in your last minute rush to get everything ready
Speaker 1: for the day tomorrow. Children have to be put to
Speaker 1: bed to wait for Santa Claus, and is the tree waiting.
Speaker 2: To be decorated?
Speaker 1: And four million and one things which must be done
Speaker 1: before morning. I sure hope you got all your Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping done. It's pretty hectic rushing off at the last
Speaker 1: minute to take care of Uncle Charlie or Aunt Bertha,
Speaker 1: cousin Sam. But if you must get something, just remember
Speaker 1: that you can always dash over to your wine merchant
Speaker 1: and get a bottle or two of Petry wine.
Speaker 2: Oh Betty, you had a whole case of petry wine.
Speaker 1: Petry wine is a swell gift, and I just thought
Speaker 1: a little left minute suggestion might be of some help.
Speaker 1: And now I'm sure I have good friend doctor Watson's
Speaker 1: waiting for us, So let's go in and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: There you are, say doctor, I can see you're gonna
Speaker 1: have yourself quite a Christmas big tree in the corner
Speaker 1: with colored lights on it. Where did you get those
Speaker 1: table covered with presents? You must be mighty popular for me,
Speaker 1: my boy.
Speaker 2: You see, I'm heaving a Christmas body tomorrow for my
Speaker 2: housekeeper's little nieces. Oh, I'm going to this up? Was
Speaker 2: sent it clause for him? Well, I'm sure you look
Speaker 2: very convincing in the part.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, doctor, I brought you a little present.
Speaker 2: Here it is, and I hope you'll like it. It was,
Speaker 2: but I got one for you too. You must or
Speaker 2: you mustn't open it until tomorrow. Here, I'm the boy.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, doctor, And now has about the night's story.
Speaker 1: Last week you told us you had chosen an adventure
Speaker 1: with a lot of Christmasy apples.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Bartell, my story begins on another Christmas Eve,
Speaker 2: many many years ago. The exact in eighteen hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty six, the time the adventure occurred. I must confess
Speaker 2: I didn't quite understand what was going on myself. In fact,
Speaker 2: I never did quite make head of tails of it
Speaker 2: kills till Homes took pity on me later and explain
Speaker 2: the whole thing. But I shan't try to confuse you,
Speaker 2: mister Bartell. I'll tell the story exactly as it happened,
Speaker 2: right you, wire, doctor. Let's go on that Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: in eighty six. I was standing in our Baker Street rooms.
Speaker 2: That's the costume of Santa Claus Holmes is long, thin
Speaker 2: fingers pressed together, lay back in an arm chair and
Speaker 2: daze let me quizically while our housekeeper, Missus Hudson stood
Speaker 2: by the door.
Speaker 3: And you make a grand Santa Clause.
Speaker 2: Uncomfortable on the glove.
Speaker 3: Oh, you look just like the old man on the
Speaker 3: Christmas cards, Doctor.
Speaker 4: Trinkle, the eyes, the ready complexion, and the the appropriate girl.
Speaker 4: A shame we can't obtain some snow and a sleigh
Speaker 4: and reindeer for you. However, I'm showing Missu Hudson's nieces
Speaker 4: will be very much impressed.
Speaker 5: There will that shirt and it's very captive, you doctor
Speaker 5: to offer to come over to that house with me
Speaker 5: father in the hospital and my sister.
Speaker 3: It's his dead side. It would have been a very
Speaker 3: miserable Christmas.
Speaker 2: Without your enjoy my I think I'll take this theodre
Speaker 2: of before we get there? That's it? Are you ready
Speaker 2: to leave with his husband?
Speaker 5: I unders, will I get a cab?
Speaker 2: How far do we have to go?
Speaker 3: Oh, Lexington Gardens, number twenty eight. It's just off the edge.
Speaker 2: We have wood far. But bearing in mind my costume,
Speaker 2: I suppose we'd better take a cab, HI said, I'll
Speaker 2: get one. Holmes. What are you going to do with yourself?
Speaker 2: I hate leaving you alone on Christmas? Oh no, Boddy old.
Speaker 4: Chap and I shall spend a profitable evening writing on
Speaker 4: my new monograph.
Speaker 2: What just went about?
Speaker 4: An analysis of teeth marks on pipe stems with a
Speaker 4: particular regard to indicated character.
Speaker 2: WHI is very how exciting? Well? I was begotting. Don't
Speaker 2: forget your sack of presents over on.
Speaker 4: When you come to distribute them, you will find the
Speaker 4: die of the liberty of adding a few trinkets on
Speaker 4: my own behalf.
Speaker 2: That's very thoughtful of your.
Speaker 5: Home excuse me, mister Holmes, but there's a gentleman to see.
Speaker 5: You say she's an old friend of yours.
Speaker 2: Here's this cab chest. Oh thank you, h it's all widdy,
Speaker 2: come splendid. Ask him to come up. Business Hudson, and
Speaker 2: I hope your party is a great success. Missus Hudson.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Are you sure you don't want him to see now
Speaker 3: that you have a visitor?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no, indeed no, Missus Hudson, and
Speaker 4: I can show the gentleman out myself if you go off.
Speaker 2: At a good time.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I wonder what Lord will want? Perhaps I should stay, please,
Speaker 2: my dear fellow, certainly not you. Are you far more important?
Speaker 2: What to do? Where he can probably.
Speaker 4: Wants his revenge of chess or something equally innocuous. Half
Speaker 4: where he will write, my dear fellone, and enjoy yourself
Speaker 4: for the girl just the same.
Speaker 2: I wish you were coming with me. I'll see you
Speaker 2: later there. Come on up when you come.
Speaker 7: Hello, Watson, you make a very convincing sense of clause.
Speaker 2: Are you leaving? Good night? Then? How are you home
Speaker 2: all alone?
Speaker 7: On Christmas Eve?
Speaker 2: He? Yes, ready, I'm glad you came over to see me.
Speaker 2: What's it to be an eathing of chess?
Speaker 4: Or have you on earth some recent preasure of medieval
Speaker 4: pottery that we can discuss neither homes.
Speaker 7: I've come to you in your professional capacity.
Speaker 2: I need help.
Speaker 4: Come, How will it come? Don't telling me that, after
Speaker 4: all these years of quiet friendship, you're going to become
Speaker 4: a clientist.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid their homes, though, I doubt if my problem
Speaker 8: will The problem will interest you very much.
Speaker 7: It's hardly up to your rather colorful standards. They'll carefuls
Speaker 7: a girl.
Speaker 2: Thanks now, my dear Willigham, what's your trouble? Well?
Speaker 6: When I decided this year to have a little Christmas
Speaker 6: party at my townhouse, I'm quite comfortably officely known.
Speaker 2: It occurred to me that I have several relatives and
Speaker 2: friends who are not as well off.
Speaker 6: I'm having a party for them tonight, homes, and I
Speaker 6: hope you'd attend it disguised as Santa Clause.
Speaker 4: My dear fellow, I've adopted many of these guys as
Speaker 4: my time, but Father Christmas has never.
Speaker 2: Been one of them. Why do you want me to
Speaker 2: pretend your party in disguise?
Speaker 4: In any case, you are shamed of your friendship a
Speaker 4: private detective? Or do you consider my features more except
Speaker 4: when buried beneath the depths of a snowy beer.
Speaker 7: Oh, my dear homes, you take me seriously. I'm not joking.
Speaker 4: I assure your course and or a course right? You
Speaker 4: won't you want me to attend your party in disguise?
Speaker 4: Why I'm giving you some very valuable presents.
Speaker 6: A diamond and Onyx cathlinks in platnum and ruby earrings
Speaker 6: and then such like.
Speaker 2: And I've wrapped each of the presents in banknotes. Jure me, Well,
Speaker 2: have these presents now in a sack in charge of
Speaker 2: my butler.
Speaker 7: I am going to dress up a Santa Clause and
Speaker 7: give him out myself.
Speaker 2: Until I got the warning letter. That's why I have
Speaker 2: come to you. Warning letter.
Speaker 6: Eh, yes, I received by this evening's post. This is this,
Speaker 6: my dear lord, whiddingcomb your generosity with Christmas presents borders
Speaker 6: on ostentation.
Speaker 2: We do not approve neither.
Speaker 8: We receive five thousand pounds in sultants at Post Restaurant
Speaker 8: Box three seventy nine by six o'clock on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 8: or I am afraid a Christmas party.
Speaker 2: Will be conspicuous by its absence of presents. I see
Speaker 2: that will him?
Speaker 4: Yes here thanks, mm hmm, plain paper one from a
Speaker 4: penny notebook.
Speaker 2: Writing is obviously disguised. It why George, Yes, whitty com
Speaker 2: I accept the case. I'll come with you to your
Speaker 2: party at once.
Speaker 4: And furthermore, I shall follow your suggestion regarding your disguise.
Speaker 4: Dressed as Santa clause, I shall be less likely to
Speaker 4: attract suspicion and delighted homes. But what made you decide
Speaker 4: to send me this writing, my dear fellow, this writing,
Speaker 4: it's in a false hand. I'd know their characteristic m
Speaker 4: in my dear Whittigum, I've seen it too often at
Speaker 4: the beginning of the signature Mariotti Mariotti. You see, oh,
Speaker 4: one of the cleverest and most unscrupulous criminals in England. Weddigan.
Speaker 4: There's no time to go last. It's slit me see
Speaker 4: now six thirty. I've not found the deadline.
Speaker 2: Given you in this letter. We muscod your house once.
Speaker 5: This is as far as the cab can take us,
Speaker 5: Doctor ken It it's five very Christmas pleasure tell.
Speaker 2: Me the very Christmas you too.
Speaker 5: You said you wanted to get into the house through
Speaker 5: the back way, so that you could surprise the children.
Speaker 2: Come down the kitchen. Children.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can get to the back of the house.
Speaker 3: They're going up the alley. Here, I'll go in the.
Speaker 2: Front, spend and spending missus. Which is the house.
Speaker 3: Number twenty eight. It's the third one down the alley.
Speaker 5: Doctor, I'll have the back window open a no time
Speaker 5: and you can slip in without any of the beer
Speaker 5: and see very.
Speaker 2: Well, gloomy little street. Well, where's the music coming from.
Speaker 5: Oh it's from that temple across the seat, doctor, The
Speaker 5: Disciples of the Octagonal Square.
Speaker 2: They call themselves. What on earth suppose that means?
Speaker 3: Oh, some new fangled colt heathens most likely?
Speaker 2: Oh hell no, I'm not the onlyess that to cause
Speaker 2: abroad tonight. Look at that across the speed of the Oh, that's.
Speaker 5: Just like yourself, doctor, And Cardie in a sack too.
Speaker 5: Oh he's running up the steps to the temple.
Speaker 2: It's Coddie. He slipped on the ice. He was here.
Speaker 3: Doctor, don't suit for yourself, here.
Speaker 2: Yourself, give me your hand, Thank you, sir. Felly of
Speaker 2: men who he said, to close it up and help
Speaker 2: you tell you know, up you come.
Speaker 3: That's it, doctor, I told you to be careful.
Speaker 2: Now you fall into it's just confounded red coat of mine.
Speaker 2: It it put me up, did you I think? How
Speaker 2: about use it? Well, I'm all right, thanks felly of
Speaker 2: me to run watching it. Here's your sex, well, thank you,
Speaker 2: good night, and Mary Kristman, who knows how to you.
Speaker 4: To the temple.
Speaker 2: Let's be the side from tagonal square.
Speaker 3: You're sure you know how to do?
Speaker 2: Oh no, of course, Miss Hudson, me my sex. Please,
Speaker 2: thank you. Your sister's house is the third run down
Speaker 2: the alleyway.
Speaker 9: Sir.
Speaker 3: I'll harry you know, in the back window, so I'll be.
Speaker 2: Waiting for him, missus Hudson rather fun the shame homes
Speaker 2: isn't with us?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Probably happier I think a good game of chess with
Speaker 2: odd will Comb.
Speaker 4: This is my house, Homes number thirty nine an' fouson square,
Speaker 4: and dear old Watson is just around the corner in
Speaker 4: Lexington Gardens and hasn't any idea that I've left Baker
Speaker 4: Smith here you are, Caddy, Thank you sir.
Speaker 2: Have merry Christmas there, uh huh there is no man
Speaker 2: carol singers.
Speaker 8: Yes, we'll probably have our feel of them before this
Speaker 8: evening's over, good evening, mild, have the have the guests arrived?
Speaker 4: Hag read most of them, Sir, they're in the library.
Speaker 4: You brought another Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: With you, I see, Mild, another Santa Claus. What do
Speaker 2: you mean? The gentleman arrived.
Speaker 4: Three quarters of an hour ago, sir, dressed to Santa Claus.
Speaker 4: I took him to your study in the Lord and
Speaker 4: showed him the sack of presence.
Speaker 2: Unfounded he's got here?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 2: Where's this study? In this way? I hope I didn't
Speaker 2: do long? Milord who told me that a gentleman dressed
Speaker 2: to Santa Claus would be coming here? Dear me, the gentleman.
Speaker 4: Appears to have gone this from the sack containing the
Speaker 4: presence with him, But he can't have left the house, MILORDA.
Speaker 2: I've been watching the front door, yes, and why you
Speaker 2: were doing that?
Speaker 4: You slipped down through the window here the catches, and
Speaker 4: I'm grave describe this man. I can't tell you much
Speaker 4: about his appearance, I'm afraid, sir. He was dressed to
Speaker 4: Santa Claus, just like yourself. But I did notice one
Speaker 4: thing about him, sir, Oh what was there? He lists
Speaker 4: was quite pronounced of course, lou A Lisper is lose
Speaker 4: A Lisper, one of Mariahi's most trusted the compasses. Fortunately,
Speaker 4: though I've had news of him later for my Underworld Grapevine.
Speaker 2: You you know where he lives. He's reputed to have
Speaker 2: some connections with the New.
Speaker 4: Cut that calls themselves the Disciples of the Octagonal Square.
Speaker 2: The headquarters are just around the corner from here. Let's
Speaker 2: go there and get a message to Scotland Yard as
Speaker 2: fast as you can.
Speaker 4: Ask for Inspectulus child until him to join me at
Speaker 4: the Temple of the Octagonal Square in Lextant Gardens as
Speaker 4: soon as possible.
Speaker 3: The children are awfully excited.
Speaker 2: Doctors. I told him he's can and then I'll go
Speaker 2: into him.
Speaker 3: Will I announce you.
Speaker 2: A racis.
Speaker 3: No children, client, Santa Claus is coming to see you,
Speaker 3: and she's brought your own pleasure.
Speaker 2: Hello, my name Jesse, did you bring me a present?
Speaker 2: Look a minute, they call me.
Speaker 3: Did you come down at chilly?
Speaker 2: Yes, that you had a time doing it.
Speaker 1: You're so fast.
Speaker 3: Santa Claus will give you your present.
Speaker 2: And what's your name? Little man?
Speaker 7: My though.
Speaker 2: I've got a cold, you have well? Children get around.
Speaker 2: Then I'll see what present I got for you? The
Speaker 2: first present? I'll be right. It says for her grace,
Speaker 2: the doll duchess.
Speaker 3: Of Do you suppose mister Holmes has been playing a
Speaker 3: practical joke?
Speaker 2: Can you do you suppose? I can't see the pos
Speaker 2: but he said that he'd added a few trinkets of
Speaker 2: his own. I want my pleasure. Then, supposing you take
Speaker 2: this thank you? And this one is mark for the
Speaker 2: reverence off the carter. He holds it up to here
Speaker 2: your baddy true same and this is for you, rold,
Speaker 2: because you've been a good little Boy's very big? Is it?
Speaker 2: I wanted the dog, the dog because Bob bring you
Speaker 2: a dog next year?
Speaker 3: Laud doctor watching, Yes, look at the rapping on these presents.
Speaker 3: Dr Brother twenty.
Speaker 2: Five months cut? Oh look what I can Let me
Speaker 2: see why Catlins and timon and I'm very much was taken.
Speaker 2: I got he having let me gracious, I swear that
Speaker 2: these areament rub is what in thunder's going on?
Speaker 5: I want give me that mind you well here you
Speaker 5: are here watching you.
Speaker 2: I don't know, missus upson paps. My toys are still
Speaker 2: the bottom of the sack. I can't understand it. I
Speaker 2: was home to here instead of closing in front of
Speaker 2: our farm in Baker Street.
Speaker 4: Where are you homes here with the bed? This is
Speaker 4: the only room in the temple that gives in his signs.
Speaker 4: I've been been lifting. Our bird has been here, but
Speaker 4: I'm afraid flown inspectors strip get here.
Speaker 10: It's like a match, will you William right? Here's a
Speaker 10: candle on the table, just as I feared, got on
Speaker 10: the bed, a red coat and a beard.
Speaker 4: Yes, lu the lippers discourage this discussn't gone and with
Speaker 4: him I'm afraid you are valuable pressure to.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
Speaker 3: Here's a sack lying on the floor.
Speaker 2: Oh no, this isn't mine. Look what's in it?
Speaker 7: A toy dog, large box of chocolates.
Speaker 2: Look at girls, don worry thunder, but this is watson sack.
Speaker 4: But how on earth could lose the lisper have got
Speaker 4: hold of it somewhere some how he works and must
Speaker 4: have made an accidental change and Lula list but there's
Speaker 4: no doubt trying to track bats them down at this
Speaker 4: very moment. You must work fast, Wigham on my friend's
Speaker 4: wife and those are missu Hudson and our relatives won't
Speaker 4: be what I thinker's damn, doctor.
Speaker 2: You can't break off your story. But before I go on,
Speaker 2: I put the freshman's up. Oh well, that's that's something different.
Speaker 1: Of course, instead of talking about port as I sometimes do,
Speaker 1: it'll be nice to.
Speaker 2: Drink some change a merry Christmas tree. The same to you.
Speaker 2: And now what happened next? Doctor?
Speaker 1: We left you at the children's Christmas party and Sherlock
Speaker 1: Holmes and Lord Weddick around the corner at the Temple
Speaker 1: of the Octagonal Square.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's about at the time, of course, I had
Speaker 2: no idea what was going on there. I was cheerfully
Speaker 2: handing out gifts worth will. It's not a king's at
Speaker 2: least to battle. It's ransom outside the Temple of the
Speaker 2: Octagonal Square, homes Lord Wiigm, we're talking to inspectless squad.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, it seems to me, Lord Whittigan, you'd have
Speaker 9: been wiser to get in touch with Scotland Yard when
Speaker 9: you first got the warning loot if we could have
Speaker 9: nabbed him when he came to your house and finished
Speaker 9: the sack of presence artists.
Speaker 4: No time for person botins. We've got to reach lou
Speaker 4: the list before he finds Doctor Watson. Suppose he can
Speaker 4: do that at homes. It wouldn't be difficult. Lu the
Speaker 4: Lisper is nearly as clever as his master, Professor Briatty.
Speaker 4: The chance is now that you were followed when you
Speaker 4: came to bag the street to night Wittingham deeply likely
Speaker 4: that Watson and missus Hudson were followed as they left it.
Speaker 4: Myriati is seldom leave to anything. To once, well, where
Speaker 4: did Doc Watson go to night Lexington Gardens? It's still
Speaker 4: around the corner from here. Work in this coo then
Speaker 4: at once might not quite away? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: the strive You must use a little subtlety. Now, Lu
Speaker 4: the Lisper wishes to recover that stack of presence from Watson.
Speaker 4: How would he invade the party with the least possible.
Speaker 2: Trouble by dressing up a cent of close again? No, no,
Speaker 2: I think he's overplayed that for one evening. Then I
Speaker 2: would he try to get in Miss Thrones? Oh? Come now,
Speaker 2: as drive.
Speaker 4: A group of people can enter any house on Christmas
Speaker 4: Eve without invitation, without creating suspicion. I shouldn't be all
Speaker 4: surprised if at this moment Rubless burned some of his
Speaker 4: gang are singing carols outside twenty eight Lexington Gardens.
Speaker 2: Well then what are we going to do? Former rival
Speaker 2: Cardls Society. How many of the men to bring with you?
Speaker 2: Three sergeant and two constable wearing great coats? Yes, miss
Speaker 2: throws the boy.
Speaker 4: They can hide their helmets and pretend to be singers.
Speaker 4: Come on, let's go over there, and while we're walking
Speaker 4: we'll rehearse on carols. We must appear reasonably convincing. Snare
Speaker 4: last sandre.
Speaker 3: No, no, you must be done to close childline, hurtsus Sudson.
Speaker 2: Home on, come in, signing of course they can awesome
Speaker 2: to come in, missus Hudson. Come on and let me
Speaker 2: hearing you back to you. Oh no, no, take it
Speaker 2: your reindeer say to see my reindeer brother. Stop on
Speaker 2: the roof.
Speaker 3: I'll climb up to see you.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you must do that. There sleep Here
Speaker 2: are the carol singers. If you get children, there we go.
Speaker 2: That's it now, Good evening, gentlemen, Good evening, and marry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Would you like to sing some carols for the children
Speaker 2: after then? I'm sure you'd like to drop some of
Speaker 2: the women. Thank you, sir. We you're like that. You
Speaker 2: before somewhere my men. No there, I'm sure you have it.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, let's sing. Good King went for it.
Speaker 11: On, well he'll We are outside the ousemist room, now
Speaker 11: wash listen, Luba whisper, and these.
Speaker 2: Men are already there are we going in? Now? Amen?
Speaker 2: You will have your puncheons handy, yes, Miss Robes, We're ready.
Speaker 2: Spend it now.
Speaker 4: Remember when we're inside and I yelled Christmas at the
Speaker 4: top of my voice. Oo, bring out your truncheons and
Speaker 4: get lubal lispur in this game out of there as
Speaker 4: quick as possible. Don't arrest them. And did you get
Speaker 4: them outside?
Speaker 2: Again? Astrade? I don't want to fight mature, watch your
Speaker 2: armist rones. We're ready. Just give us the word and
Speaker 2: we'll go in. And oh that was very nice thing.
Speaker 2: And now how about something to warm you all? That
Speaker 2: won't be necessary, Doctor Watson sat in the door. Sammy,
Speaker 2: all of you stay right where you are. You what
Speaker 2: did it you're up to? Please don't be difficult doctor.
Speaker 2: All I want is the jewel out of my fact
Speaker 2: that you sold from me. Tonight you try and stop me,
Speaker 2: I shall have to hurt you. Why do you talk
Speaker 2: so funny?
Speaker 10: You got a cold like me.
Speaker 2: Shut up now, doctor, where are the jewels? Christ? There
Speaker 2: are some more carol fingers outside.
Speaker 7: Don't you got a way?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Better let them come in. If we don't, they might
Speaker 2: get the faces. Question what you're up to? I don't know, pricks, doctor,
Speaker 2: if you try and give an alarm myself I has
Speaker 2: to get rough with you or anyone about that. But
Speaker 2: just remember that there are children present. You are here
Speaker 2: before you. Right, what you say, you will join an
Speaker 2: old Carol for then? All right, what what do you
Speaker 2: want to say? Better? Up the old angels? Sing? A right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: All right, come on man, let's sing.
Speaker 3: Mary watching what's happenings.
Speaker 2: We're all going away in front of the thing I
Speaker 2: explained to you later Chapterstrid. I take them to Scotland
Speaker 2: Yard and prefer charges. I'll be over in a little
Speaker 2: wound give evidence. Right. Too bad we didn't catch Professor
Speaker 2: Moriarty too well. At least we have some of his cohorts.
Speaker 2: Sound see you later. List. I'm telling you what was
Speaker 2: going on here? Is my artom mixed up in this business?
Speaker 4: Yes, Watson, Now, I'll tell you all about it as
Speaker 4: soon as I've straightened this thing out.
Speaker 2: Now Wickham.
Speaker 4: Yes, the twenty pound notes that you used as wrapping
Speaker 4: for your gifts seems to have been scattered all over
Speaker 4: the house.
Speaker 2: You want me to recover them too.
Speaker 6: Now, from what you've told me of the children, I
Speaker 6: think their parents produce the money much more profitable than
Speaker 6: my relatives.
Speaker 2: In any case, I can replace it a.
Speaker 4: Very generous Christmas gift. Well, children, did you enjoy the
Speaker 4: little game we staged for you?
Speaker 6: It was enough? Yes, actually died laughing when they started
Speaker 6: hitting each other.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you enjoyed the children, and now I want
Speaker 4: you to show me the presence you received is pretty Oh,
Speaker 4: they were a part of the game too. A nice
Speaker 4: little girl like you just want silly earrings? Elsie, here's
Speaker 4: a beautiful doll for you. And what did you get
Speaker 4: my little man me?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Tough flinks? Good gracious? Who wants tough links? And you
Speaker 2: can have a clock work train? Do you want to
Speaker 2: exchange lord of a year? I wanted the door, there's
Speaker 2: one for you. Nice Julie has a nice big box
Speaker 2: of chocolates too. Can all shove one life?
Speaker 3: Sorry that as much one Since Granny got her fingers
Speaker 3: stuck in.
Speaker 2: I still don't understand what's going on home, But I
Speaker 2: must say, he says, all your mar to be a
Speaker 2: happy Christmas.
Speaker 9: This is.
Speaker 2: The Turkey coming home, little Brady in a few minutes
Speaker 2: at the gold Branded.
Speaker 4: And while we're waiting, perhaps the children will oblige me
Speaker 4: that we haven't heard so much.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean. Christmas carols really sounds convincing.
Speaker 2: How about it? Children?
Speaker 3: Oh like this can tomoro?
Speaker 7: God?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 1: Well, doctor, that was really a twelve a swell story
Speaker 1: on a Christmas Eve like this? Do you have a
Speaker 1: wish you were back in Baker Street celebrating Christmas Eve times?
Speaker 2: Yes? But actually, mister Boutle, I'm very happy right here
Speaker 2: in my little home there on the tables of your
Speaker 2: little Christmas tree. There's a fine power in my fireplace,
Speaker 2: my two dogs mounting Willie, a sleeping peace at my feet,
Speaker 2: and best of it all, I've got the love of
Speaker 2: every child in the neighborhood. Yes, I got a great
Speaker 2: deal this Christmas Eve. That's to be thankful for. And
Speaker 2: what were the troubles of the world on their way
Speaker 2: to being settled? It looks as if this is the
Speaker 2: brightest Christmas that I've ever had. Well, that's how I
Speaker 2: feel about it too, Doctor. I hope that all our
Speaker 2: friends listening in are just as happy as Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: as we are. And speaking not only for myself, but
Speaker 2: I know for all of us and for the Petrick
Speaker 2: family too, we wish every one of you a happy
Speaker 2: Christmas from the bottom of our hearts.
Speaker 1: God rest you merry, gentlemen, Well, doctor Watson. Next Monday's
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, what story do you plan to tell us?
Speaker 2: Extremely appropriate, mister Bartow. It takes place in the Scottish
Speaker 2: castle near Edinburgh on a New Year's Eve in nineteen
Speaker 2: hundred and concerns a pair of lovers, an elderly Barnett
Speaker 2: and a strange iron box that proved to be more
Speaker 2: than worth its weight in gold Tonight.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holm's adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Speaker 1: Boucher and was suggested by an incident and the Sir
Speaker 1: Arthur Connan Doyle story. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
Speaker 1: Music is by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbourne appears through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayor and mister Bruce through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
Speaker 1: the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco,
Speaker 1: California invites you to two, and then again next week,
Speaker 1: same time, same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from
Speaker 1: our Hollywood studios. This is Harry Bartel saying good night
Speaker 1: for the Petrie family. For a solid hour of exciting
Speaker 1: mystery AMAS listen every Monday on most of these same
Speaker 1: stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: This is the mutual broadcasting system.