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<v Speaker 1>And now doctor Watson. What about the adventure of the

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomspray Ballot.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, mister Harris, it took place just before the turn

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<v Speaker 2>of the century, in December of eighteen ninety nine, and

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<v Speaker 2>this time Holmes and I became involved through an old

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<v Speaker 2>and personal friendship with Myers. On Bloomsbury Square, here in

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<v Speaker 2>London stood a once imposing townhouse which for thirty years

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<v Speaker 2>had been empty and boarded up. Perhaps, mister Harris, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>getting ahead of my stock. It actually begins in the

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<v Speaker 2>legal office of the Honorable Reginald Dudley, Solicitor, on Chancery Lane,

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<v Speaker 2>near the Temple. One afternoon, mister Dudley received an unexpected visitor.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you don't recognize me, mister Dudley.

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<v Speaker 2>Look here, my.

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<v Speaker 3>Dear sir, I'm a very busy man. You've come to

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<v Speaker 3>my office without an appointment. I assure you that I

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<v Speaker 3>haven't the faintest idea of who you are.

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<v Speaker 1>Then let me refresh your memory, mister Dudley. Thirty years

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<v Speaker 1>ago up an ampseer named Sir Percy Wickford owned a

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<v Speaker 1>great house on Bloomsbury Square. He had two daughters, the

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<v Speaker 1>eldest Elane, the younger Elizabeth, a beautiful girl with great talent.

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<v Speaker 1>At the half. Elizabeth incidentally married a man named Alpa Harvey.

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<v Speaker 4>Can I go on?

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<v Speaker 2>Here? Here's go on.

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<v Speaker 1>Sir Percy Wickford became involved in some illegal financial scandals

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<v Speaker 1>and the family was discreased. Lpa Harvey because of the

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<v Speaker 1>stain on the family name left the Wickford vanished, and

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<v Speaker 1>Sir Percy, with his two daughters, fled England sailed for Canada.

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<v Speaker 1>You seem to be well informed, too far, my friend.

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<v Speaker 1>I am indeed the reason you shall learn later said

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<v Speaker 1>the sieve. The vessel carrying the Whitfords went down off

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<v Speaker 1>island with no survivors. The residue of the Wickford estate

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<v Speaker 1>some fifty thousand pounds, and the old house is now

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<v Speaker 1>being administered by yourself as solicitor.

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<v Speaker 3>That is true, But since there are no living relatives

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<v Speaker 3>of the Wickford, the old house goes up for auction

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<v Speaker 3>next week and the money disposed of.

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<v Speaker 1>At my discretion. Mister Dudley, that is where you're mistaken.

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<v Speaker 1>What you mean there is the living relative of the Wickford.

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<v Speaker 1>Indeed who myself? I am, Arthur Harvey. You you are,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Dudley, And I have the credentials to prove it

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<v Speaker 1>as the husband of Elizabeth Whitford deceased. I am the

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<v Speaker 1>sole heir to the Wickford Portal.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, who is it?

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<v Speaker 2>The room crack here at the hotel, mister Harvey, I

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<v Speaker 2>had a message for you.

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<v Speaker 1>To oh just a moment, I what the you?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

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<v Speaker 5>No, by Joe Holmes, what is it constible?

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<v Speaker 2>According to the Morning Telegraph, here a man named Arthur Harvey,

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<v Speaker 2>he recently returned from India, was stabbed to death in

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<v Speaker 2>his rooms at the Travelers Club on Powel Mall yesterday evening.

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<v Speaker 2>The official police have no clues to the identity of

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<v Speaker 2>the misterious assailant.

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<v Speaker 1>Indeed, a most regrettable affair, no doubt. I what is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Wat you look at it?

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<v Speaker 2>Upset Will Holmes. I knew Arthur Harvey many years ago

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<v Speaker 2>in India. We fought through the Afghan War together. Indeed

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<v Speaker 2>he saved my life and the gazs near Kendahar.

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<v Speaker 1>Really, you know, I recall his killing me.

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<v Speaker 2>He was the sole member of my marriage of the

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<v Speaker 2>now extinct Whitford family on Bloomsbury Square.

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<v Speaker 1>See and so you would like to catch his murderer

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<v Speaker 1>and avenge his death. Yes, Holmes, I would indeed in

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<v Speaker 1>that case, Watson, that have proceeded at once to Palmell

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<v Speaker 1>and the Traveler's Club. Hmmm, lucky, the official police haven't

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<v Speaker 1>moved the body yet, Unthur, Harvey here was stabbed at

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<v Speaker 1>the entrance to the door. Here fell back into the room,

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<v Speaker 1>dressed in nightcrobe, and on the point of retiring, the

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<v Speaker 1>knife was plunged deep and straight into the heart.

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<v Speaker 2>And ha ha, what is it not?

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<v Speaker 1>Watson observed on the dead man's microbe a tiny bit

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<v Speaker 1>of yellow paper in the shape of a star.

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<v Speaker 2>What a burden?

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<v Speaker 1>This is a bit of paper clipped by a railway

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<v Speaker 1>ticket collector's punch.

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<v Speaker 2>You mean Harvey here was riding a train just before.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, no, no, the killer was riding a

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<v Speaker 1>train before he came here. Often this bit of paper

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<v Speaker 1>from the ticket collector's punch clung to his coat. When

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<v Speaker 1>the assassin stabbed Harvey, the paper remnant was transferred from

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<v Speaker 1>the killer's coat to Harvey's microbe in the close contact. Now, then, Watson,

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<v Speaker 1>is I recall reading that the Whitford House on boomsbrist

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<v Speaker 1>Square is up for auction next week with a solicitor

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<v Speaker 1>named Reginald Dudley's administrator. That is correct, and to that

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that Arthur Harvey here was the legitimate heir

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<v Speaker 1>to the property. And we have an intriguing problem.

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<v Speaker 2>By Joe Holmes, you'r riot fight, but.

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<v Speaker 1>Now supposedly divide forces. You investigate the origin of this

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<v Speaker 1>ticket punch with a London railway system an eyeingsh repair

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<v Speaker 1>a call on, mister Dudley, and you have no idea

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<v Speaker 1>who might have murdered Arthur Harvey. Mister Dudley, No, mister.

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<v Speaker 2>Holmes, I you not. You must be aware, however, that

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<v Speaker 2>Harvey might have had several enemies.

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<v Speaker 1>Indeed, yes, yes, you see, you.

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<v Speaker 3>See there are still many claimants that we will wait

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<v Speaker 3>for the state, some impostors, some.

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<v Speaker 2>With vague claims. Some of these people were desperate for money,

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<v Speaker 2>and well you understand, yes.

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<v Speaker 1>Quite to destroy the only legitimate air would re establish

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<v Speaker 1>other claims in the court. An obvious conclusion, mister Dudley,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps two obvious. And before I leave, you are less handed,

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<v Speaker 1>are you not, mister Dudley.

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<v Speaker 2>Why, yes I am.

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<v Speaker 1>But how a few elementary observations not worthy of explanations.

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<v Speaker 1>I wish to point out, however, that you have a

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<v Speaker 1>black smudge on your left cup, a rabbit jarring note

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<v Speaker 1>in an otherwise fatitious ensemble. And now I'm as Dudley,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a sidew Believe me, ah Watson, any results.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been running on London like a madman, trying to

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<v Speaker 2>trace down that ticket punch. I mean to every railway

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<v Speaker 2>station above and under.

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<v Speaker 1>The drup Come man, get to the point.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you find the origin of that ticket Rundomar Holme's idea,

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<v Speaker 2>It was used last night by a collector on the

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<v Speaker 2>Central London Railway and he used that particular ticket punch

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<v Speaker 2>between the stations of the British Museum in Bloomsbury and

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<v Speaker 2>Chancery Lane.

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomsbury, the Chancery Lane Capital Watson, You've competed a first

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<v Speaker 1>class bit of investigation while making excellent progress. Come let's

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<v Speaker 1>be off where too, Bloombery Square. I should like to

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<v Speaker 1>have a look at the old Wickford House. Well, Watson,

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<v Speaker 1>there it is the old Wickford House.

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<v Speaker 2>Is Holmes confounded? Were we down here on Bloomsbury Square

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<v Speaker 2>in the dead of night? Just again?

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<v Speaker 1>Look where at that window on the upper story the

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<v Speaker 1>light life I do see any Lightholmes? You must be

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<v Speaker 1>mistaken on the country. I'm quite sure I saw the

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<v Speaker 1>glimmit of a light, and I'm positive this house has

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<v Speaker 1>an occupant.

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<v Speaker 2>The place has been deserted for three decades.

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<v Speaker 1>Has its want to suppose we affect an entrantpan our

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<v Speaker 1>hose well, Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, this is an unusual adventure.

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<v Speaker 1>What about that light in the window of the deserted house?

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<v Speaker 1>What happened after that?

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<v Speaker 2>A series of very strange events, mister Herris, and I

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<v Speaker 2>shall relate them to you immediately after you present a

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<v Speaker 2>few facts on Clippercraft clothes.

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<v Speaker 1>You may not know it, but you have a personal

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<v Speaker 1>value scout right in your own home town. Your private

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<v Speaker 1>agent is the friendly independent store in your community that

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<v Speaker 1>sells clothes with the clipper Craft label. Your clipper Craft

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<v Speaker 1>dealer spend plenty of time seeking out the greatest clothing

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<v Speaker 1>value your money good bye, and naturally chose clipper Craft.

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<v Speaker 1>And why wouldn't he when clipper Craft makes it possible

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<v Speaker 1>for you to own one of the most luxurious suits

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<v Speaker 1>you've ever seen for only forty or forty five dollars,

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<v Speaker 1>and the clipper Craft suit of pure worsted for as

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<v Speaker 1>little as forty five dollars a suit with more hand

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<v Speaker 1>tailoring details than you would ever expect to find at

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<v Speaker 1>that low price. It takes great planning to give you

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<v Speaker 1>so much fine quality for so little money. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>it takes the concentrated buying power of more than twelve

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<v Speaker 1>hundred independent clippercraft dealers from coast to coasts. That's why

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<v Speaker 1>men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes bearing the

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<v Speaker 1>clipper Craft label. So be sure to visit the clipper

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<v Speaker 1>Craft store in your city. These leading stores in the

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<v Speaker 1>metropolitan area are proud to add their names to clippercraft

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<v Speaker 1>in your suits, top coats, and overcoats. In Manhattan, John

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<v Speaker 1>Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Streets,

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<v Speaker 1>Sachs thirty fourth Broadway at thirty four in Brooklyn, Abraham

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<v Speaker 1>and Strauss in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop, Cresgy, Newick,

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<v Speaker 1>And in Jamaica, the B and B Clothes Shop, one

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<v Speaker 1>sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue. Now, doctor Watson, you

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<v Speaker 1>were relating to us the adventure of the Bloomsbury Battle.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was, mister Harris, So I was as you

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<v Speaker 2>remember home saw a light in the window and determined

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<v Speaker 2>to effect an entrance. We managed to get into the

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<v Speaker 2>house through a ground floor window. Then we started to

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<v Speaker 2>prowl through the house through the cold, dark rooms laden

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<v Speaker 2>with the dust of the yearth cluttered with grotesque furniture

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<v Speaker 2>and the relics of a musty past. And then.

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<v Speaker 4>By Joe, by, Joe knows what the devil is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Who is it?

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<v Speaker 2>Sounds like a ghost of musician upstairs playing.

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<v Speaker 1>A tightly Watson a half?

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<v Speaker 2>But why, Holmes, why why would anyone play a half

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<v Speaker 2>here in this empty, gloomy house.

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<v Speaker 1>Suppose we go upstairs.

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<v Speaker 6>See.

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<v Speaker 1>Watson music is coming from behind the doors. Becose we

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<v Speaker 1>enter and meet our ghostly musician.

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<v Speaker 2>Nose it's an old lady because he is dressed the

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<v Speaker 2>style of thirty years ago.

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<v Speaker 7>Good evening, Good evening, gentlemen in my mind. But I'm

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<v Speaker 7>afraid you startled me, did we? Indeed you did. I

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<v Speaker 7>had no idea we were that quarters this evening. But

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<v Speaker 7>the welcome to Wickford.

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<v Speaker 1>House, thank you, madam?

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<v Speaker 7>Won't it by the fire and wonders just my sister

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<v Speaker 7>Laing would be here present?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, my sister, that's absurd.

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<v Speaker 1>You're both supposed by Miss Wickford. Allow me to present

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<v Speaker 1>doctor Watson. I am Shelock Hoch.

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<v Speaker 7>Doctor Watson, sail commn very nice. Didn't I meet you

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<v Speaker 7>to reception last week?

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<v Speaker 2>Reception? Madam? What reception?

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<v Speaker 7>Buckingham tell us to her Majesty Queen Victorious. I must

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<v Speaker 7>say her majesty looks very young.

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<v Speaker 2>For verify, Queen Victoria's gone now it's I'm afraid we

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<v Speaker 2>were not invited to the reception, Madam.

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<v Speaker 1>I trust it was a brilliant pair.

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<v Speaker 7>Oh yes, mister Holmes, lovely, lovely, distinguished gathering. I met

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<v Speaker 7>Jingming this really didn't know.

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<v Speaker 2>These people did quite often.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, Smiths, Whitford, they're all famous. Indeed, this is a

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<v Speaker 1>great and fruitful year for Britain, isn't it, Yes.

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<v Speaker 7>Mister Holmes. Yet indeed, ending this than thirty years, we

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<v Speaker 7>shall all be in the turn of the news section.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't it?

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<v Speaker 7>Expecting?

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<v Speaker 2>It's amazing.

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<v Speaker 7>In a few days now it will be the new year

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<v Speaker 7>eighteen seventy three. Oh I do if Arthur was with

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<v Speaker 7>me now asthor o. Yes, after Harvey my husband, you see,

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<v Speaker 7>I am really this is Arthur Harvey. But just Arthur

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<v Speaker 7>left me not long ago, something about one of father's

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<v Speaker 7>unfortunate financial transactions. It's a perty victor, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And you don't know where Arthur is, no.

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<v Speaker 7>Mister Holmes. But every evening at this time here in

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<v Speaker 7>my house, I play the harb. Arthur loved the half

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<v Speaker 7>in that coreection. I was just playing what is sad?

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<v Speaker 7>I say it in the hook that he will return

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<v Speaker 7>me some.

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<v Speaker 1>Let us hope, madam, that you will.

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<v Speaker 8>Elizabeth, Elizabeth, is there someone with you name coming to

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<v Speaker 8>the speaking room?

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<v Speaker 7>My dear Elizabeth, I was one o give give me

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<v Speaker 7>the whole and give you doctor Watchington in my fifteen

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<v Speaker 7>moon weekly.

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<v Speaker 8>I cannot say that I've had the pleasure.

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<v Speaker 1>We have some acquaintance with Arthur hobby.

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<v Speaker 7>Isn't love?

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<v Speaker 2>They know of?

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<v Speaker 7>And of course we shall ask them to think it

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<v Speaker 7>you gentlemen, Elizabeth, dear, it's rather late, and I don't

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<v Speaker 7>think please didn't, Dame. It's so lonely, and this happens.

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<v Speaker 7>We haven't had gentlemen callers in such a long time.

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<v Speaker 8>Very well, Supause you continue with your music, Elizabeth, until

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<v Speaker 8>tea is ready.

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<v Speaker 7>I'll chat with our two guests in the library. Oh

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<v Speaker 7>you answered the dearly, won't it? Be told me to

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<v Speaker 7>have for thespi.

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<v Speaker 2>I flow, Mitlin, we were sure you were dead.

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<v Speaker 1>As far as the world knows, Doctor Watson, we are dead.

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<v Speaker 1>But now that you two are.

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<v Speaker 8>Here, I'm afraid we cannot keep our secret any longer.

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<v Speaker 8>The fact is we were on that chip with our

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<v Speaker 8>father so Percy when it went down, But.

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth and I found a raft and made our way ashore.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet you deliberately concealed the fact that you were alive.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, mister Holmes. After our father disgraced the sweet we

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<v Speaker 8>wanted to hide from the world.

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<v Speaker 2>And you've lived here in absolute seclusion for thirty years.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, doctor Watson, for thirty years. No one else has

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<v Speaker 8>ever been here, No tradesman, no other visitor. I go

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<v Speaker 8>not only at night to purchase the necessity.

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<v Speaker 1>M see rather unusual situation.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it what I should say, so, Miss Elaine, about

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<v Speaker 2>your sister Elizabeth, I can't say I quite understand Elizabeth.

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<v Speaker 8>Well, you see, I'm afraid she's a little unbalanced, Doctor Watson,

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<v Speaker 8>the shark of the family disgraced the disappearance of her

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<v Speaker 8>husband the shipwreck.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, because that to.

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<v Speaker 2>Lose her mind.

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<v Speaker 8>She actually thinks she's living back in eighteen seventy two.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, so we gathered. But as to author Hobby is Whitford,

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<v Speaker 1>I presume you have not yet hurt them. You But

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<v Speaker 1>Arthur Hobby is dead.

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<v Speaker 8>Arthur dead.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, he was murdered here in London last night.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh I leave.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, perhaps it is just as well.

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<v Speaker 8>Elizabeth was beyond our hope long ago, and she could

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<v Speaker 8>not stand another shark. I ask only that two gentlemen

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<v Speaker 8>humor her as I have.

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<v Speaker 1>While you are here, we will.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed you can count on us.

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<v Speaker 1>This will thank you, gentlemen.

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<v Speaker 6>And now shall we.

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<v Speaker 4>Go into the tea.

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<v Speaker 1>Hmm, the most interesting tea, Watson. Now here we are

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<v Speaker 1>at the rear entrance go homes.

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<v Speaker 2>It's fantastic those two elderly women living alone in this

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<v Speaker 2>gloomy old house, living in the pastor who's what produce?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you looking at the surface of this long pathway

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<v Speaker 1>up the street? There's a layer of coal dust on it.

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<v Speaker 2>What are at homes? They burned coal in the fire.

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<v Speaker 1>Plow precisely, Watson, and you couldn't have failed to observe

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<v Speaker 1>that the coal scuttle of the hearth was almost empty,

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<v Speaker 1>and that the two elderly ladies will need more fuel

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<v Speaker 1>by tomorrow night.

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<v Speaker 2>What the devil you're talking about? The Wickford Sisters.

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<v Speaker 1>Are not the Wickford Sisters, Watson. They are clever impostors

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<v Speaker 1>working with the assassin who killed your friend Harvey.

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<v Speaker 7>You took your time getting that bucket of col hey

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<v Speaker 7>at to night, I'd.

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<v Speaker 8>Make I should say you did, mister solicitor.

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<v Speaker 7>You've been later that every night.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you expect us to do? Frees to death?

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<v Speaker 3>No, see here you too, I'm second tired of having

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<v Speaker 3>that counounded colp that long garden pass.

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<v Speaker 7>Oh, indeed your sick and time?

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, what about us Margie and me hanging about this

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<v Speaker 8>old house dressed up in these chilly clothes posing as

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<v Speaker 8>a couple of bomb the old ladies, the wick That

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<v Speaker 8>sisters are.

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<v Speaker 3>You just have to see it through until the auction

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<v Speaker 3>comes off and the authorities discover you living.

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<v Speaker 7>Very well, we'll see it, but we need to get

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<v Speaker 7>us third of inheritance.

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<v Speaker 1>Mind, you'll get it.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll get And while we're on the.

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<v Speaker 8>Subject of discovery, it might interest you to know we

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<v Speaker 8>had a couple of gentlemen Collas last night.

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<v Speaker 7>Who sell our cones and doctor Watts, not that they

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<v Speaker 7>found anything. We pulled the wool over their eyes.

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<v Speaker 2>With sun comb.

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<v Speaker 1>Doctor Watson and I decided to return again to night

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<v Speaker 1>for more teeth at Dudley, and I'd advise all of

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<v Speaker 1>you not to make a false move. My colleague has

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<v Speaker 1>a pistol, as you see, and you will not visitate

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<v Speaker 1>to use it.

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<v Speaker 2>Jil Holmes here in our rooms at Baker Street. This

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing seems like an unpleasant dream. The whole thing

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<v Speaker 2>was a clever romantic swindling.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes quite. Dudley killed Alfa Harvey to remove the last legitimate.

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<v Speaker 2>Air as who hopes how the deuce?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you know that the wicket punch? The ticket punch

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<v Speaker 1>proved that the killer had made a train journey from

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomsberg to Chancery Lane, and Dudley's office is on Chancery Lane.

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<v Speaker 1>But the empty coal scuttle at the Whickford fireplace was

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<v Speaker 1>by farther of Tillian clu Watson. Both Elizabeth and Elane

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<v Speaker 1>are elderly ladies. They needed coal to heat that sitting room.

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<v Speaker 1>I was strong enough to carry a full coal bucket

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<v Speaker 1>up that long garden path, but no tradesman could have

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<v Speaker 1>carried out the past, since the secret would be discovered.

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<v Speaker 1>Yet it had to be a man with a man's strength,

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<v Speaker 1>and that man had to be original precisely, especially since

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<v Speaker 1>Studley was left handed, and since I had noted a

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<v Speaker 1>black smudge on his left cuff when I saw him

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<v Speaker 1>at his legal office Homes.

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<v Speaker 2>For my part, well, I'm profoundly grateful enough. After all,

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<v Speaker 2>it was my personal friendship with Arthur Harvey.

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<v Speaker 1>That not a too, my dear fellow, not at all.

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<v Speaker 1>I found the adventure most invigorating, and with your indulgence, Watson,

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<v Speaker 1>I should like to add a final conclusion to your

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<v Speaker 1>memoirs is Homes. But conclusion you may quote me Watson

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<v Speaker 1>saying that, in my opinion, the violin is a much

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<v Speaker 1>more pleasing instrument than the heart. Well, doctor Watson, that

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<v Speaker 1>was an interesting adventure.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, mister Harris.

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<v Speaker 1>And doctor what adventure will you relate to us next week?

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<v Speaker 2>Next week's story, mister Harris, is called the Adventure of

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<v Speaker 2>the Devil's Foot. It concerns some wild laughter, a lamp

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<v Speaker 2>that burned by day, and a strange footprint in the garden.