Speaker 1: Ah, there you are, mister Bartell.
Speaker 2: Get any Oh excuse.
Speaker 3: Me, doctor Watson, I didn't know that you had company.
Speaker 4: Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
Speaker 4: Let me introduce you, mister Bartell. This is my friend,
Speaker 4: Missus Campbell.
Speaker 3: How do you do, Missus Campbell?
Speaker 5: How do you do, mister Bartell.
Speaker 1: Missus Campbell is a.
Speaker 4: Very old friend of mine from England, and when she
Speaker 4: called on me today I persuaded her to stay and
Speaker 4: have dinner and then join us in this little session
Speaker 4: of storytelling. You see, mister Bartell, she's really what you
Speaker 4: might call the star the Sherlock Holmes adventure that I'm
Speaker 4: going to tell you tonight.
Speaker 5: Oh come now, doctor Watson. I actually played a very
Speaker 5: small part of the story. In any case, I was
Speaker 5: much too young at the time to know what was
Speaker 5: really going on.
Speaker 2: Say this is a great idea, doctor, one of the
Speaker 2: characters out of your fabulous past here in California in
Speaker 2: nineteen hundred and forty six, and helps tell her own story.
Speaker 4: Oh no, mister Bartel, I'm no storyteller.
Speaker 6: That's the doctor's department.
Speaker 4: I'll just listen. No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll
Speaker 4: set the scene.
Speaker 1: But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
Speaker 4: In any case, my memory isn't to clear on some
Speaker 4: of the early points in connection with the case. You
Speaker 4: will have to help me out, hope.
Speaker 5: But you're talking to millions of listeners on the radio.
Speaker 5: I'd be terrified to speak over the air.
Speaker 3: Oh we're on the air now, missus Campbell.
Speaker 7: Oh oh we're not, are we?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, dear Anna, don't worry, Cinthia. If they're kind enough
Speaker 4: to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
Speaker 4: be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
Speaker 4: with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll,
Speaker 4: the setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
Speaker 4: which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 4: And now, Cynthia, my dear, the curtain's going up, and
Speaker 4: the first scene belongs to you.
Speaker 1: Supposing you set it for.
Speaker 7: Us, well, I'll try.
Speaker 5: We were living on the Sussex Downs, also, mister Bartel
Speaker 5: at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning. My father,
Speaker 5: Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but my mother
Speaker 5: kept up the estate with the manager, a Missus U Tanner.
Speaker 5: I was away at school most of the year, of course,
Speaker 5: but the happiest times of my childhood was spent during
Speaker 5: those long summer months in Sussex.
Speaker 7: I lived in a.
Speaker 5: Small world, knowing only a few people, and loving all
Speaker 5: of them, or almost all. First of all, there was
Speaker 5: mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman in the
Speaker 5: world and the sweetest. I remember she gave me a
Speaker 5: puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name was Dusty, and
Speaker 5: she was so sweet.
Speaker 3: I talked to.
Speaker 1: Mother about him one day.
Speaker 7: I must have sounded terribly young.
Speaker 8: Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
Speaker 8: a lovely puppy, and you gave him to me.
Speaker 7: You love him, Cynthia. I know that, But I've been
Speaker 7: feeding him. That's your job, darling. It's good for grown
Speaker 7: up people to have responsibility.
Speaker 8: Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
Speaker 6: I'll feed him so poor here First.
Speaker 5: Then there was the estate manager, Hugh Tennor, such a
Speaker 5: pleasant man and so willing to tell a twinwelve year
Speaker 5: old all the things that a twelve year old has
Speaker 5: to know or die.
Speaker 6: But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
Speaker 6: He'd only broken his.
Speaker 9: Leg, Cynthia, horses aren't like human beings.
Speaker 1: Their legs won't men.
Speaker 9: I think of a horse that couldn't risk and run
Speaker 9: and gallop across the downs. We're actually being kind to him,
Speaker 9: honest to be, are Cinna.
Speaker 5: And then there was Frank King, the painter who lived
Speaker 5: on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
Speaker 5: and really see things.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, Cynthia, that sunset isn't red. It's gold
Speaker 10: and russ and the water. Child, look at it, it's
Speaker 10: almost rose in this light, rose flecked with cobwebs of
Speaker 10: eggshell blue, Cynthia, Darling.
Speaker 1: A sunset's never just one color. Do try and remember that,
Speaker 1: won't you.
Speaker 5: And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
Speaker 5: gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
Speaker 5: marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
Speaker 11: Uh, Cynthia, I am going to you a half a
Speaker 11: crown for being a very good little girl.
Speaker 1: Now tell me what will.
Speaker 7: You do with it?
Speaker 6: About something for money?
Speaker 11: Oh no, no, my dear, this is your own money.
Speaker 11: You put it in the savings account of the post
Speaker 11: office and it'll make more money for you. Always remember,
Speaker 11: my dear, take care of the pennies, and the pounds
Speaker 11: will take.
Speaker 1: Care of themselves.
Speaker 5: Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
Speaker 5: the things that aren't in books.
Speaker 3: Always remember my bunny.
Speaker 1: But it's good luck.
Speaker 6: To touch the hump of a hunchback.
Speaker 10: But the curso Beelziva himself will be upon you if
Speaker 10: you look at a slipper of silver moan through the glass.
Speaker 5: And then the strangest and most wonderful of it all
Speaker 5: was the lean, middle aged man with his sharp face
Speaker 5: and the bean in it, whom I met one day
Speaker 5: on the downs.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, young lady. Good afternoon.
Speaker 6: I'm Cynthia Barney.
Speaker 1: My name is Holmes Comes.
Speaker 6: Why are you carrying that net you're looking for?
Speaker 1: Bat flat knows Cynthia. I'm a bee farmer, beef farah.
Speaker 6: Well that sounds funny. How are you farm me?
Speaker 12: Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
Speaker 12: I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
Speaker 6: Isn't it?
Speaker 13: Doll?
Speaker 8: My mascot was given to be by Frank King, the painter.
Speaker 4: He made it for me.
Speaker 8: He made it look as much like me as possible.
Speaker 6: I call her me.
Speaker 1: It's remarkable likeness.
Speaker 8: See the hair that's clippings off my hair. And the
Speaker 8: nails those are clippings from my own nails.
Speaker 6: She's really mean.
Speaker 12: I love her your own nails and hair, and the
Speaker 12: dog is an exact replica of you.
Speaker 1: I don't like that, Cynthia.
Speaker 12: I remember my dear my name when you were it's
Speaker 12: a Sherlock Holmes, and I live at the Bee Farm
Speaker 12: and if anything unusual happens, accompany me at once.
Speaker 5: Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
Speaker 5: with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
Speaker 4: You didn't understand why he was so worried about the dog.
Speaker 5: Well, no, but I remembered what you said about coming
Speaker 5: to him if anything unusual happened.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Bardell, and within a very few days. But
Speaker 5: at this point I think doctor Watson should take over
Speaker 5: the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really.
Speaker 4: Enteredhimore really well. As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I
Speaker 4: was staying with Holmes late in the afternoon. As I
Speaker 4: remember that, you ran over to the Bee Farm where
Speaker 4: I first met you, Cinthia a few moments before you arrived,
Speaker 4: Holmes and I, each of us with a cup of
Speaker 4: tea in our hands, were seated on the verandah, gazing
Speaker 4: out across the downs and discussing the mute betty human affair.
Speaker 1: It's strange, Watson, and after a lifetime devoted to the
Speaker 1: more flamboyant aspects of everyday life, that now, in what
Speaker 1: is the fast approaching twilight of my days, I find
Speaker 1: such peace and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior
Speaker 1: of peas. I wonder what Marrigarte would have thought, Oh,
Speaker 1: are you talking.
Speaker 4: As if you're an old daughter of ninety. You will
Speaker 4: say what you like, and I don't think that you'll
Speaker 4: ever really be happy in retirement, you, mister danger, the
Speaker 4: the excitement of the chaste.
Speaker 1: The public of plaim. What are you talking about? My
Speaker 1: work was never for the public, and what did the public,
Speaker 1: the great unobserved public could hardly tell a weaver by
Speaker 1: his tooth or a typeset by his left thumb, care
Speaker 1: about the finer shades of analysis or deduction. In any case, Watson,
Speaker 1: I chose a happy time to sink into oblivion. In
Speaker 1: compared for very recent years, a criminal seems to have
Speaker 1: lost all his originality and enterprise, my own little practice
Speaker 1: when I gave it up and seemed to be in
Speaker 1: danger of developing into an agency for recovering lost lead
Speaker 1: pencils or giving advice against ladies from boarding schools.
Speaker 4: Talking of young ladies, who's this little girl running up
Speaker 4: your driveway?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Great, Scott, it's little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie.
Speaker 4: Who's she?
Speaker 1: Poor charming young neighbor of mine? Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
Speaker 8: Mister Holmes, you told me to come to you. Something
Speaker 8: unusual happen. It has something that's frightened me.
Speaker 1: Well, no, sit down, my dear. This is my old friend,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson. Oh, how do you do, Santia?
Speaker 6: How do you do?
Speaker 1: Ah? Cynthia? What has frightened you?
Speaker 6: It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
Speaker 13: Her through the heart, Scott, a doll.
Speaker 4: It's an exact repercover with the pen life frost into it.
Speaker 1: Graciously, When did you find your your masscot like this?
Speaker 6: Just out of tea?
Speaker 8: Mammie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
Speaker 8: went up to my room, and found poor me on
Speaker 8: the bed. I remembered what you told me about anything unusual,
Speaker 8: and so I came over here.
Speaker 1: As fast as I could, because I'm glad that you did.
Speaker 4: Cnthia, did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I didn't. She was still talking to the gentleman.
Speaker 4: Worry about you when she discovers your disappears.
Speaker 1: No, nobody wasn't. I'll go over and talk to her
Speaker 1: at once, Cynthia.
Speaker 6: My dear, Yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Who was the gentleman calling on your mother?
Speaker 8: Well there was mister Tanner. He's the man who looks
Speaker 8: after the estate, the money, mister.
Speaker 6: King, the paint.
Speaker 1: Mister King is the man who made this doll. Eh.
Speaker 1: Now who else was there?
Speaker 6: Mister Pound. He's a businessman from London that's staying with money.
Speaker 1: And they were all present in your house when you
Speaker 1: found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
Speaker 1: what's no chap. I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother
Speaker 1: at once. I want Cynthia to stay care with you
Speaker 1: god her old chap as you would your life. Missus Banning.
Speaker 1: I know I'm a scene like an intrusive neighbor. But
Speaker 1: possibly you've heard of me. My name is Holmes, Sherlocombs.
Speaker 7: Well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes of
Speaker 7: Please sit down, won't you?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Your guests have left?
Speaker 7: Yes, but how did you know I had guests? I
Speaker 7: know you're a great to take care now.
Speaker 1: Your charming little daughter Cynthia came over to see me
Speaker 1: half an hour ago, she told me, So.
Speaker 7: That's where she went. Did she come back with your no.
Speaker 1: Missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained at
Speaker 1: my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson will
Speaker 1: look after her. I am afraid as she may be
Speaker 1: in danger.
Speaker 7: In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
Speaker 1: Do you know your daughter's doll, the one fashioned in
Speaker 1: her own likeness and with her own hair and nails.
Speaker 7: Of course, Franklin made it for her.
Speaker 1: While you were to tea this afternoon, your daughter found
Speaker 1: the doll lying on her bed with a pin knife
Speaker 1: stuck through its heart.
Speaker 7: That's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
Speaker 7: be in any danger because of its home.
Speaker 1: Missus Browning. Certain practitioners of magic believe that if a
Speaker 1: doll like effigy is made of a human being, and
Speaker 1: the efforgy is then mutilated, that a similar fate will
Speaker 1: befall the living original.
Speaker 7: But mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
Speaker 7: in it.
Speaker 1: Not in the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Browning.
Speaker 1: But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
Speaker 1: kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. Oh no, it may
Speaker 1: be more than a possibility, I'm afraid. And when these
Speaker 1: magical means fail, they will turn to more direct methods.
Speaker 7: But who could possibly want her death?
Speaker 1: You? You have not remarried, Missus Browning.
Speaker 7: No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
Speaker 7: to Arthur's child, Cynthia.
Speaker 1: Yes, than anyone wishing to marry You might feel that
Speaker 1: Cynthia stood in the way, but that's absurd but logical.
Speaker 1: Missus Browning, Do you mind if I ask you a
Speaker 1: very personal question?
Speaker 7: With Cynthia's safety at stake, You may ask any question.
Speaker 1: Are any of the three men who were present at
Speaker 1: tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you? Will? I, please
Speaker 1: be completely honest, Missus Browning.
Speaker 7: At different times say they've all asked me to marry them.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
Speaker 1: husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
Speaker 1: this pen knife before it was the one un stuck
Speaker 1: through the doll's heart.
Speaker 7: I don't think i'd ever seen it before.
Speaker 1: One final question, would anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a
Speaker 1: knowledge of the practice of magic? Well?
Speaker 7: The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman might?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 10: Who?
Speaker 1: Might she be?
Speaker 7: A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
Speaker 7: dance near here. She brews weird concoctions with her love
Speaker 7: filters and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Have you a suitable companion for your daughter, Miss Brownie?
Speaker 7: I know it's mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
Speaker 7: over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
Speaker 7: old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
Speaker 7: her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
Speaker 1: I like to talk to this woman. And where does
Speaker 1: she lived?
Speaker 7: I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
Speaker 7: He used her as a model.
Speaker 1: Frank King the painter, Yes, he lives in the village,
Speaker 1: and I shall call on him at once and persuade
Speaker 1: him to accompany it. We must find that wise woman,
Speaker 1: and I hope save your child from magic, magic and
Speaker 1: possible murder. Much further, Miess King, only a few more yards.
Speaker 10: Mister Holmes, A little cottage is just behind.
Speaker 1: The trees there. It's a pretty broken down place. Poor
Speaker 1: old girl has only a few pennies to her name.
Speaker 1: Imagine missus Warning was telling me that you used this
Speaker 1: old woman as a model.
Speaker 3: Yes, she was a fascinating subject. I painted hers.
Speaker 10: She was mixing up some devil's concoction of herbs and spices.
Speaker 10: I had her standing over a smoking cauldron with the
Speaker 10: firelight playing on her.
Speaker 1: Was who was quite affective, as it must have been
Speaker 1: the subject of witchcraft appeals to its king right.
Speaker 10: I don't know anything about it, which just that she
Speaker 10: was such a wonderful subject for painting.
Speaker 1: Here we are, I'm knock on the door. I will
Speaker 1: take the liberty going in Chary, I don't why.
Speaker 7: Not sh what is it?
Speaker 1: List came from that room? Someone is here? Come on,
Speaker 1: look at her, Look at her head. She's still alive.
Speaker 1: She's long to this world. Can you hear me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Let me lift you up a little. Can you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Tell me who was it that did
Speaker 1: this to you? She's too par gone to speak. Put
Speaker 1: a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
Speaker 1: we thanks. Now can you write the name of the
Speaker 1: man who did this to you? She's pushing the pencil away.
Speaker 1: I don't suppose she knows how to write. She's trying
Speaker 1: to show you something, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3: She's trying to crawl over to the wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me help you. It's to be a hiding
Speaker 1: place of some kind.
Speaker 3: Look, she's taking a brick out of the wall.
Speaker 1: What is it? Wreck Scott money editable jack DAWs nest
Speaker 1: to pennies and small silver and at least a dozen
Speaker 1: golden sovereigns. That was to the money book.
Speaker 10: She's picking up one of the silver coins.
Speaker 3: She's trying to give it.
Speaker 1: To you, or a sixpence.
Speaker 7: But what.
Speaker 1: A poor woman. She's dead just as she was trying
Speaker 1: to tell me something. I can't understand it. Golden sovereigns
Speaker 1: in this hovel, and she was. She was showing you
Speaker 1: a silver sixpence as she died. Mister Holmes, what are
Speaker 1: you going to do? First check on the young girl's safety. Well,
Speaker 1: I should like you to correct to my Mother's assemble
Speaker 1: the other two men who are present at tea time
Speaker 1: this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrive. I
Speaker 1: shan't belong with the police. I shall summon them, mister King,
Speaker 1: when I have the murderer to offer them, and I'm
Speaker 1: convinced that that will be before the sun sets to night.
Speaker 3: We'll hear the the.
Speaker 2: Rest of doctor Watson's story in just a second time
Speaker 2: enough for me to mention another wonderful Petrie wine, Petrie
Speaker 2: California muscatel. If you like that subtle muscat flavor, Who
Speaker 2: doesn't you really like Petrie muscatel. Patrie Muscatel is a
Speaker 2: clear golden wine. It is just as much a hit
Speaker 2: with the ladies as Petre Port is with the men.
Speaker 2: But I don't mean by that that only the ladies
Speaker 2: like Patrie Musketel.
Speaker 3: In fact, if you want to be sure to please.
Speaker 2: Everybody, get both Petri Port and Petrie Muscatel. In other words,
Speaker 2: don't buy one, buy two, but do be sure you
Speaker 2: always buy Petrie. Now back to doctor Watson and his
Speaker 2: guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played a most important part
Speaker 2: in the story herself.
Speaker 5: Oh not nearly is important about is that lay by
Speaker 5: mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
Speaker 2: at the bee farm.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, he made shore the little girl
Speaker 4: was safe. Then he told me of finding the dead
Speaker 4: woman and of his theories as to the killing. I
Speaker 4: can almost hear him now, mister Bartels. He said.
Speaker 1: Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
Speaker 1: they knew the mother would never marry while the child
Speaker 1: was alive.
Speaker 4: And that someone persuaded the old woman to do the
Speaker 4: job for him.
Speaker 1: As well outedly, and she, believing in the pawers of
Speaker 1: black magic, mutilated the doll, firmly, convinced that in so
Speaker 1: doing she was destroying the young girl. It was fashioned, doctor.
Speaker 4: And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
Speaker 4: woman was merely indulging in stupid foot cloy killed her,
Speaker 4: realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
Speaker 4: her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous sintrol.
Speaker 1: But how do you suppose we account for the horde
Speaker 1: of money golden sovereigns? Don't forget if we founded my hobble, No.
Speaker 4: Doubt it was a sum that she has already been
Speaker 4: paid for the murder.
Speaker 1: That she was going to commit, and she died. She
Speaker 1: trying to give me the clue to her murder by
Speaker 1: selecting certain certain coin. Now in a possession she had gold, silver,
Speaker 1: and copper. She chose a silver coin. And yet I
Speaker 1: can't see it significance. I must confess at the moment,
Speaker 1: possibly not.
Speaker 4: And yet before the evening's over, I bet you that,
Speaker 4: you say, Watson, I said, before the evening's over, I
Speaker 4: bet you.
Speaker 1: Like you, old fellow, that's the clue.
Speaker 4: You bet me what on earth you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Holmes, I'll just say, you'll just give me the answer
Speaker 1: to the whole problem. Watson, I'm much obliged you stay
Speaker 1: here what you will, chap and look out to Cynthia
Speaker 1: a little while longer. Within a very short time, I
Speaker 1: shall have her intended destroyer under lock and key.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come. I've had the greatest
Speaker 7: difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen that their presence was necessary.
Speaker 1: Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
Speaker 1: be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, well, i'd be a good idea to tell
Speaker 7: anyone what happened.
Speaker 1: Yes, how do you do, mister How do you do?
Speaker 1: Mister Holmes?
Speaker 4: Look here?
Speaker 1: If there's some scandal, now there is, mister Pound.
Speaker 11: Then I want my name kept out of it. You here,
Speaker 11: I have a seat on the London Stock.
Speaker 1: Exchange, very comfortable for you. And the other gentleman, by
Speaker 1: the process of elimination, must be mister Hugh Tanner, the
Speaker 1: manager of your estate, Missus Browning.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm Hugh Tanner.
Speaker 9: Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
Speaker 9: all about. I'm a straightforward man. In all this mystery
Speaker 9: is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerns us all.
Speaker 10: What is it?
Speaker 12: Murdered?
Speaker 4: Murder?
Speaker 13: Good lord, who's been murdered?
Speaker 1: An old woman who lived in the village your daughter,
Speaker 1: Missus Browning, referred to her as the wise woman, mister King,
Speaker 1: and I found her tonight in her cottage on the downs,
Speaker 1: beaten to death, murdered. Why that's shocking. But of what's
Speaker 1: it got to do with us? I'll explain, mister Pound,
Speaker 1: each one of you. I believe would like to marry
Speaker 1: Missus Browning daughter Cynthia. Is an obstacle to such a marriage.
Speaker 1: One of you decided to remove that obstacle and engage
Speaker 1: the wise woman to carry out the plan. Finding the
Speaker 1: woman clumsy and ineffect did, you decided that she was
Speaker 1: a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately, the
Speaker 1: poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the clue
Speaker 1: to her murderer.
Speaker 7: But how did she do that, mister Holmes? I thought
Speaker 7: you said that she died without speaking.
Speaker 1: She did, Missus Binning, But she gave me the clue. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: though I was shocking this slow and spotting it. Well,
Speaker 1: what was the clue?
Speaker 11: Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out into the opener.
Speaker 1: You were with me, mister King, as she died, I
Speaker 1: shall let you tell them. Well, she was dying, unable
Speaker 1: to speak. When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her,
Speaker 1: She couldn't write, but she showed him a horde of
Speaker 1: copper and silver coins and a dozen golden sovereigns. Sovereigns
Speaker 1: in a hovel like that? Oh, I see?
Speaker 11: She meant her murderer was the man who had paid.
Speaker 10: Her and with all that ill gotten wealth, she died
Speaker 10: touching a silver sixpence.
Speaker 1: And you still, doctor, see who the murderer is. Come along, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: you should know it as well as you know your
Speaker 1: own names. Now. And mister King mentioned that there were
Speaker 1: a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest? Sovereign? Sovereign? King?
Speaker 1: You thank, King, were the murder. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 10: The old woman wasn't exactly a mastermind. Why should she
Speaker 10: be so so indirect? And how much is a sovereign worth?
Speaker 3: A pound?
Speaker 10: And your name, my friend, with a seat on the
Speaker 10: London Stock Exchange.
Speaker 1: Is pound, which is absolutely absurd. I can prove that
Speaker 1: I've never even met the woman.
Speaker 7: Well, what is the answer, mister Holmes. I'm sure that
Speaker 7: you know it.
Speaker 1: The answer is obvious, missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
Speaker 1: say that a chance remark of Dr Watson's gave me
Speaker 1: the clue.
Speaker 11: Oh now look here, stop thinking about the bush, Holmes.
Speaker 1: What is the answer? Very simple? One, mister Pound. With
Speaker 1: twelve golden sovereigns at hand, sovereigns that would suggest either
Speaker 1: the name of King or pound, what coin did the
Speaker 1: dying woman select a sixpence exactly, a humble silver sixpence.
Speaker 1: And what is the common slang word for a sixpence,
Speaker 1: a tanner, precisely, which tells us that you, mister Hugh Tanner,
Speaker 1: killed the wise MAIDY try improve it.
Speaker 13: That's all, just trying out, Holmes, what happened?
Speaker 1: I found the murder old chat thanks to you, but
Speaker 1: I mean thanks to me. Well, I was thinking of
Speaker 1: a sixpence, the coin the dead woman cluched in her
Speaker 1: hand as a sixpence. When you said I bet you,
Speaker 1: I thought of the much used expression bet your tanner.
Speaker 1: That gave me the clue to the whole business. The
Speaker 1: dying woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner
Speaker 1: was her murderer.
Speaker 4: He confess to say before the police arrived.
Speaker 1: Yes, after thank King the artist had started to give
Speaker 1: him something about thrashing he deserved. Oh, I take no
Speaker 1: particular pride in the case Watson. Without your Chancellor Mark,
Speaker 1: I might easily have overlooked this obvious clue that the
Speaker 1: dying woman gave me. As I've said before, ow, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I should not attempt to emerge from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's obvious that my reflexes are shockingly slow rubbish.
Speaker 4: The police would not have solved.
Speaker 1: All my dear Watson, when you compare me with the police,
Speaker 1: I realized that my retirement should be permanent. And by
Speaker 1: the way, where is Cynthia?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 4: I arranged your house keeper for her to have an
Speaker 4: early supper. Some kippers of folks they got too a
Speaker 4: piece of that trick.
Speaker 1: Of talk we had last night for Otokia, old girl.
Speaker 1: My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
Speaker 1: accuse you of being a potential murderer.
Speaker 4: Comnor Holmes, you know.
Speaker 1: Here she comes out hell asn't dear? Did you enjoy
Speaker 1: your supper?
Speaker 6: It was lovely? Thank you, mister Holmes. Is everything all right?
Speaker 6: Can I go home now?
Speaker 4: Yes, Cinthia, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear.
Speaker 1: Did you ask mister King to make that mascot for you?
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes. The wise Woman told me it would
Speaker 6: bring me luck.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I thought so, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: Will everything be just like before?
Speaker 1: No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the wise Woman
Speaker 1: upon a where you you won't see them again? Oh dear,
Speaker 1: But you have new friends here, haven't you?
Speaker 6: Yes? And nice ones.
Speaker 4: Remember that, Cynthia. We'll always be your friend.
Speaker 6: I will, Doctor Watson. I like you both so much.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
Speaker 1: King the Artist?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
Speaker 8: He's like my daddy a little.
Speaker 1: Oh. I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
Speaker 1: tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
Speaker 1: it might change a peculiarly foolish notion of person