WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.839 This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.480 transmitted to our men and women overseas by short wave 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.240 and through the world wide facilities of the Armed Forces 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:09.039 Radio Service. 5 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.960 Petree Wine brings you Lass a lat Bone and Nigel. 6 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:24.800 Bruce and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.719 the family that took time to bring you good wine. 8 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:29.640 Invite you to spend the next half. 9 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:32.439 Hour listening to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure 10 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.359 he shared with his old friend, the world famous detective 11 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.880 Sherlock Holmes. 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Tonight we find him on the 31 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:41.519 stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood. 32 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.200 Good evening, Doctor, Good evening, mister bouto. 33 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:46.840 If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome. 34 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:47.879 I have, Doctor. 35 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.799 Now, what's the recipe for tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure? 36 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:54.920 Well, to see, take equal parts of beautiful English country 37 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.959 stars and black mil and mix them and a dash 38 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.959 of romance, a sprinking of day season well with the 39 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.519 usual theatrical condiments, and you have the Case of the 40 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:06.719 Accidental Murders. 41 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.879 Sounds like a tasty dish. How did the story begin? 42 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:11.520 Docting on a beautiful summer day? 43 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.120 In eighteen hundred and ninety five, Holmes had just concluded 44 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.439 his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Puska, 45 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.879 an inquiry which was carried out at the express desire 46 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.479 of his fullness, the Pope, and. 47 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.639 In consequence the great Man felt for a couple of weeks. 48 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:29.319 Rest in the heart of warwicks Show would be a 49 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.599 pleasant change after our rather strenuous adventures in Italy. And so, 50 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.840 mister Bartel, we went to Stratford on Avon, the home 51 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:38.479 of Shakespeare. 52 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.639 Huh, quite right, my boy. As a matter of fact, 53 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.560 that was the reason that decided us to go there. 54 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.080 Holmes was a great lover of the drama, you know, 55 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.520 and at the time my story begins, the Shakespearean. 56 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.639 Festival was in full swing. For the first week my life, 57 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:53.639 there was calm and peaceful. 58 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.719 During the daytime, we visited the local pieces of interest, 59 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.479 such as Anne Hathaway's cottage and Shakespeare's birthplace. 60 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.240 And the evening found us at the theater. 61 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.400 It was on a Tuesday, I remember, during our second 62 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.120 week's stay, It's a trouble again. 63 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:09.599 Holmes and I had gone for a walk through the 64 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:10.879 nearby forest of Avon. 65 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.960 He was in unusually good spirits that morning, and there 66 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.800 was a distant, distinct, I mean twinkle. 67 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:23.159 In his eye as he as he said, once I 68 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.000 begin to wish that I were a man of wealth, 69 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.199 and what makes you say that homes the beauty of 70 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.719 this place? All fellow, I'm perfectly certain, like the happy 71 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:35.120 in retirement here, pressing to think that in a week 72 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.560 or two, the solid necessity of making money able to 73 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:38.960 demand my return to Baker Street. 74 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.199 In the world of criminals, I must say that. 75 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.560 An environment like this, it is a little hard to 76 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.280 think of crime. 77 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:48.800 How does the old saying go, where every prospect pleases 78 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:50.199 an only. 79 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.479 Man is vile? Yes? 80 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.639 But Shakespeare puts it even better. 81 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:55.000 I know what he said. 82 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.520 I'm sure you remember the speech, and as you like it. 83 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:58.759 We saw the productions nights ago. 84 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.240 I don't remember the speak. How did it go? 85 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.120 In this setting? It's very remarkably opposite? 86 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.080 Aren't these woods more free from field than the envious 87 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.840 court here? 88 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.680 Feel we but the penalty of Adams the season's difference, 89 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.199 don't you remember? Sweet? 90 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.360 Are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly 91 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.079 and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head. 92 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.800 And this our life exempt from public. 93 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:30.600 Haunt finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks, 94 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.079 sermons and sums, and good in everything. 95 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:35.759 I would not change it. 96 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.519 My soul. You read that much from the follow on 97 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:39.279 the stage of that. 98 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.079 Don't tell me I adopted the wrong professional barson. Oh, 99 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.560 dear me, wait a minute. Far seems to end here. 100 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:45.959 Nothing the dense trees ahead of us. 101 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.279 There's another path over there. I think it leads down 102 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:48.759 to the river. 103 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.759 Then let's follow it. 104 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:56.959 The great Scott that was up Ah, homes homes you hurt? 105 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:57.920 Ah? 106 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.000 Yes, I think I am. Bullet hit my shoulder. I 107 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:02.920 think it's only grazed it. 108 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:03.959 Well, get off your cut quickly. 109 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.759 Let's have a lot on your scratch. First. 110 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.600 Let's find out where it was fired from. I heard 111 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:09.879 the third of the thought of a bullet in the 112 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.519 tree behind me. Yes, here we are, give me a penknife. 113 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:12.839 Follow? 114 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:14.560 Well? 115 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.519 Thanks. Do you suppose that that shot was deliberate? 116 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.959 Well, I can't imagine someone mistaking me for a rabbit Watson. 117 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.439 And by the way, little a curious echoed at the 118 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.879 shot right, don't know whether you've noticed it. Uh huh. 119 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:30.000 Here's the bullet let. Me see, I was tending there. 120 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.000 A line from this bullet hole in the trees the 121 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.040 spot where I was standing would indicate that the shot 122 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:36.879 was fired from that custer of trees of the bear. 123 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.920 Come on, Watson, let's see what a search discloses. 124 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.600 I wish you'd let me look at that shoulder before 125 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.600 you start galloping all over the countryside homes. 126 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:47.199 You're bleeding quite profuse. 127 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:49.560 Plenty of time to look at it. When we hello. 128 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:54.079 Look over there a man and. 129 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.040 Woman running towards us across the clarry. 130 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:57.319 Yes, and carrying guns. 131 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:58.000 Hees. 132 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.920 It looks as if it was an extent after anyone 133 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:05.680 hurt here, sir, my friend was hitting the shoulder, gets 134 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.399 a dad wound, a scratch, Madam, I I hope, but 135 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.800 I put the blood on your coat. Well, just how 136 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.519 did this, well, this accident happened their? Well, we were 137 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.360 we were out rabbit shooting. I was teaching my wife 138 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:18.120 to use a rifle. 139 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.720 I saw a rabbit scurry across the carring. I raised 140 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.519 the rifle and fired. It seemed to me, Jeffrey, that 141 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:26.439 as I did so, you joked my arm. 142 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:27.720 I'm afraid I did, Alice. 143 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:29.920 I was going to fire too, But as I raised 144 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:31.959 my rifle, I jotd your elbow and send you a 145 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.439 shot wild. I can't tell you how sorry I am, sir. 146 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.040 Here here's my card. Of course, we'll take care of 147 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.439 any expenses that may be introl. 148 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.399 Nothing to do is to find out how much damage 149 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.360 has been done. You'd better take your coat off or fallow. 150 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:46.839 I I don't know the guy care. 151 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.759 Oh he's badly hurt. 152 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:53.120 No, it's just but oh the man sainted. 153 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.240 This is beadful. I have a horse and trap down 154 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:57.800 the road and give you a hand with him, whim. 155 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:14.360 I must get him to hospital is as fast as possible, Holmes, Holmes, 156 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.000 are you feeling any better? 157 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:17.600 Has the nurse gone? 158 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.240 Yes, yes, yes, he's bringing the house surgeon and the 159 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:22.600 man and his wife down. 160 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.480 In the hospital waiting. I found out their name. It's 161 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:26.399 it's Markham. 162 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:27.720 Then we're alone. 163 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:29.920 Yes, yes, yes, so fall In that case, I can 164 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:31.720 stop behaving as if I were a death's door. 165 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.959 Holmes, you mean that you you share that collapsed yours? 166 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:36.519 Yes, I did. 167 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.240 What little video whichat my shoulders confabed it painful? 168 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.079 I assure you I'm sure it is. 169 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:44.560 But what made you pretend to faint? 170 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.360 I recognize this missus Markham, and I think you recognize me. 171 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.279 It's important to assume I'm out of action. 172 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:50.639 For a while. 173 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.439 Oh, missus, Well, missus Malcolm is in reality the notorious 174 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:00.680 Missus Dangerfield. You remember the danger Colo case danger great God, Yes, 175 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.639 she was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning, wasn't. 176 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:05.680 Yes, she was all along. 177 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.199 She was acquitted when the jury decided she was an 178 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.040 habitual arsenic addict who happened to take an accidental overdose. 179 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:14.040 Didn't you have some connection? 180 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.319 It was I who tracked down the sale of the 181 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:20.000 arsenic she claim to have bought for cosmetic purposes. Well, 182 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.319 if you asked me that shot at you is no excellent? 183 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.040 Of course it wasn't. I'm certain that I was recognized. 184 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.439 And in case her record is a bad one. Prior 185 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.680 to her husband's death, there was an episode in which 186 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:32.559 her uncle was killed in a shooting accident on a 187 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:33.720 grassmoor in Scotland. 188 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.799 And uncle who left her a large fortune on his death. 189 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.559 And I suppose Missus Dangerfield was a member of the 190 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.440 shooting party when the accident. 191 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.759 Heaven, yes she was. And she's something of a fem fetalbo. 192 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:48.919 I must planned my actions very cautiously. I'm up against 193 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:49.879 a dangerous opponent. 194 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.120 Well, you have to stay in the hospital until your 195 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:53.720 wounds being examined. 196 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.039 And dressed as allow, and while the local staff are 197 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.840 taking care of that, I want you to shadow the 198 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:02.919 marcom stick close to them, an fellow, make them believe 199 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:04.559 that I'm going to be kept here for some days. 200 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.200 Find out as much as you can, and then report 201 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:07.440 to me. 202 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:20.360 Right. I'll do my best, Hike. 203 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.200 It's off the kind of humors as Markham to insist 204 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.120 on having me back to your house for. 205 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:29.320 Lunch, my dear doctor Watson, after injuring the famous mister Holmes. 206 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.399 It's the least I could do, of course, it is, 207 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:33.759 y dear. Will you bring us some sherry day to 208 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:34.159 day off? 209 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:34.960 You know? Really well? 210 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.559 Ellis there's anyone else coming to lunch? 211 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:38.679 Only Dennis Bromney? 212 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.600 Oh Lord that Fellows used to live here. Hell go 213 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:42.120 and get the. 214 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.600 Sherriff sit down, won't you? 215 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:44.159 Doctor Watson? 216 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:46.000 Thank you? Thank you? 217 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.399 You you say that you think mister Holmes will be 218 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:50.519 in the hospital for some day. 219 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:53.480 I'm afraid so. The wold wasn't serious. He lost quite 220 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:54.120 a bit of blood. 221 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:56.320 I feel perfectly dreadful about it. 222 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.480 You mustn't blame yourself too much, madam. 223 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.279 It was an accident, yes, but I might easily have 224 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:01.960 killed him. 225 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.960 Well you haven't, and that's all that matters. H Did 226 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.240 you say that Dennis Romney was coming to lunch? Is 227 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.200 that the actor fellow from the Memorial Theater? 228 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:10.639 Yes? 229 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.519 Have you seen him on the stage, Yes. 230 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.399 Several times. Holmes and I have been going to the 231 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.279 festival regular since we came down here. 232 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:20.279 A fine actor, isn't he a shame they're getting such 233 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.000 poor power. Imagine I'm letting that pricefl dads of grand 234 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.759 play handle at last night while they's only played laoties. 235 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:32.360 Hennis is three times a better actor. He's coaching me 236 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.080 and acting. Oh yes, he thinks that I may be 237 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.919 able to get small part here next season. I've always 238 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:40.600 had a great edge to go on the stage, but 239 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.799 no one's ever encouraged me before. Oh here's Jeffrey. 240 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:48.120 This show is rather special. Doctor. Here is de la Frontier. 241 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:49.919 Only a few bottles left. 242 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:51.240 It's very nice of us. 243 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:53.559 Let it not be Dennis. I've got let him in. 244 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.480 We might just might as well have a drink. Your 245 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.399 final will help making this actor fellow more tolerable. 246 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.039 I take it, mister Markham, that you're not an admirer 247 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:03.399 of mister Dennis Romney. 248 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.399 He's always quoting Shakespeare and behaving generally as if he 249 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:08.240 were another irving. 250 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.320 He's got Alice completely fooled. 251 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:12.559 Oh, thank you. 252 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.279 I want to introduce you to doctor Watson. 253 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:17.840 How do you doing, mister Romney, how do you do? Sir? 254 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:23.679 Hello, Jeffrey, Thanks, that would be very nice. Are you 255 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:25.919 a disciple of the theater, doctor Watson? 256 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.559 Well, hardly a the sile servant. I have been attending 257 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.840 the festival during the last week. I enjoyed your performances 258 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:33.360 at the men Stiff says. 259 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:36.399 Oh you, mad doctor. Here's a sherry Dennis. 260 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.679 Don't protty Jeffrey, and please with another. The Dennis is 261 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:40.159 our guest. 262 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.759 It's all right, Alice. I know that Jeffries bark is 263 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:44.120 a good deal worse than his bike. 264 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.120 And what play are you peering in tonight, mister Romney? 265 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.879 King Lear, I shall once again portray the thankless role 266 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:51.840 of the King of France. 267 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.039 An incredibly bad actor. 268 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.000 Battle Grant has a multitude of passions to tatters, and 269 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:01.279 his rendition of Lear, oh horrible, horrible, most honorable. 270 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.960 I thought he's cannon was atrocious last night. 271 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.440 And it wasn't it When he came to his final line, 272 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.960 the rest is silence was as much as I could 273 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:09.879 do to prevent charing. 274 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.360 I felt rather the same way when you were killed 275 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:13.360 in the Jeweled. 276 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:17.440 And it's Jeffy, you're being intolerably rude. Why don't you 277 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.240 take doctor Watson upstairs and show him your butterfly collection. 278 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.559 There at least you'll know what you're talking about. 279 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.080 Interested in butterflies, doctor, I have quite a rare collection. 280 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:27.679 Really, I like you very much. 281 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:28.200 Morning. 282 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:30.559 I think we just got time before lunch. 283 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.399 Try and bring yourself down with a few better nanos. 284 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:39.399 Jeffrey dear, I'm really quite an easy going man, doctor, 285 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.960 But the arrogance that fellow Rodney infuriator, I. 286 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.039 Must say it does seem have rather a good opinion 287 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:51.679 of him. So don't don't. 288 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:55.799 Put too much weight on that balcony rail. It's absolutely 289 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.639 full of wormholes. Part of the attraction we know old house. 290 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:07.240 My wife tells me that I regard it as confoundedly dangerous. 291 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.240 And this is my little museum. 292 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:12.879 In these cases, I think you'll find some of the 293 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.519 finest specimens of lepid docter you've ever seen. It's my hobby, 294 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.639 and I may say that with the exception of the 295 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.080 natural History Museum. 296 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.519 If you'll find a final collection. 297 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.600 It must have taken you years to collect them. 298 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:29.000 Murders, many years, many disappointments, and a great deal of patience. 299 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.840 Look at this fellow, he is my priest specimen. A 300 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:34.679 North American monarcy. 301 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.159 North American mark, beautiful view. 302 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.039 And this is an admiral, and it is a perfect 303 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:44.840 bee hawk moth. And here's an emperor. Ever see more 304 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:46.080 exquisite markings. 305 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.840 Never tell me, mister Markham, when you capture the butterfly, 306 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:53.519 how do you pull it without marking. 307 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:57.120 It in any way with poison? Oh? What poison? 308 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:58.000 Cyanide? 309 00:13:58.440 --> 00:13:59.840 Not arsenic? Are you? 310 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.279 Let me say syni dot. 311 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.159 That's the only reason I mentioned it isn't a friend 312 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.240 of mine collected by the flies once, and I'm certain 313 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.200 that he always used arsenic to kill him. 314 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.519 Don't you keep talking abouarsenic. You're trying to hint at something. 315 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:14.320 My dear fly is just curious at all. He is right, 316 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.240 we're too curious. Perhaps there's the luncheon gong. Let's go downstairs, 317 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.919 sum And I didn't mean to offend you, of course 318 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.559 you didn't, But my nerves are a little on edge today. 319 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.200 There must be that accident to your friend. That's upsetting. 320 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:32.360 I really must get that balcony rail mended. 321 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.080 Sh What is it, sir? 322 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:42.679 My wife, young Robbie look mean duch. Listen, darling, why 323 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:43.639 won't you understand? 324 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:50.799 Well? 325 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:55.720 Doctor, they say that listeners never hear good of themselves. 326 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.399 You know, sometimes I wonder if my wife wouldn't let 327 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:02.840 me out of the way. 328 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:25.320 And let's go down to lunch, Shelby. 329 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.279 And so Holmes, that's the story up to now, really 330 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.759 interesting one to Watson. So you think that missus Markham 331 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.320 is planning to kill her husband name Well, it's obvious. 332 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.759 She's in love with the actor Forll Dennis Romney. Her 333 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:29.879 husband's in the way. 334 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.000 And if she doesn't want to use poison. 335 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.720 This time as a perfect setting for murder in that 336 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.679 crumbling balustrade on the landing, one push when. 337 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.759 He wasn't looking would be the end of him, and no. 338 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.200 One could prove that you did a charming household. And 339 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.960 mister Markham became very evasive, you say, when he wasn't arsenic. 340 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.480 Yes, I said it to Liberty, of course, to see 341 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.399 how he'd react if you ask me. He knows that 342 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.919 his wife has asked to clars he was trying to 343 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:53.360 protect her. 344 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:55.879 If exerted your charms sufficiently were arranged to see them again, 345 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:57.960 I'd try, Well, this is matterfa I have there. 346 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.960 Taking a picnic key in going voting on the air 347 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:01.919 from this afternoon, They aspittagem. 348 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.360 Of course I agreed. We'll just rush back here to 349 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.080 the hospital to talk to you first. 350 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.679 You've got splended it. What'sn't sprended there? 351 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:10.960 But I've been so busy to tell you what I've 352 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.120 found out that I haven't asked you about you. 353 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.000 And I feel my final flo what does the house 354 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.159 surgeon discovered? And then the interesting fact? Look in the 355 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:20.559 drawer beside my bed, will you. 356 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.039 Great Scott it it's a. 357 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:29.159 Bullet, a bullet that the house surgeon removed from my shoulder. 358 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.000 But we found a bullet in the tree also. 359 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.559 Precisely therefore two bullets were fired. 360 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:36.960 But good lord, that mean it means old chapter. 361 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.559 We have a dangerous task ahead of this, not to 362 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.080 solve a murder, but to prevent one. 363 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.080 We'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's unusual story in 364 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:55.799 just a moment. Meanwhile, I'd like to remind you that 365 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.240 good cooking becomes wonderful cooking. If you serve your good 366 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.519 food with a wine. If you like a red wine, 367 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.759 say with meat or any meat dish, try Petrie California Burgundy. 368 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.359 If white wine's your favorite, then you'll love Petrie California so. 369 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:11.720 Turned it's wonderful. 370 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.359 But Burgundy or so Turn, which for you prefer, It's 371 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:17.359 just bound to be good if you see the letters 372 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:21.920 P E, T R I on the bottle, because Petree 373 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:26.240 wine is always good wine. And now, doctor Watson, what 374 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:29.519 happened next? We left you at Sherlock Holmes bedside in 375 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.519 the hospital. Did the picnic with mister and missus Markham 376 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:33.279 prove an exciting one? 377 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.720 No? No, it was rather thunpleasant. As a matter of fact. 378 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:37.759 The three of them kept scrubbing all the time, and 379 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.960 just as we were coming home, something unforeseen occurred. Mister 380 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:43.279 Markham fell into the river. 381 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.519 We'll pardon the old question, doctor, But did he fall 382 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:47.720 or was he pushed? 383 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:50.039 It's hard for me to say. I had my back 384 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:51.920 to him when he fell. 385 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:53.920 Of course, we fished him out and rattled him back 386 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.640 home in the trap as fast as we could. He 387 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.279 changed his clothes at once, and as we scround the 388 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.559 file a little later, I could see if he caught 389 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.440 a kill. In fact, I recommended that you go to 390 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.359 bed and stare. Miss Markham agreed. 391 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:09.799 Will yes, dear, I do wish you followed Doctor Watson 392 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:10.680 to drive and go to bed. 393 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.759 For the fifth time, Alice, I will not go to bed. 394 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.359 I'm perfectly all right. No, it's not thanks to you 395 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:16.000 and Dennis. 396 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:17.920 What do you mean by that? From Mark? Jeffrey, you know. 397 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:20.599 Perfectly well what I mean. It wasn't an accident that 398 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:21.960 I fell in the river. Just now. 399 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.160 One of you two pushed me when I was struggling 400 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.799 with the pump hoole in the long read. 401 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:28.200