Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: What about this adventure of the fabulous celebrities.
Speaker 3: Well, mister Harris, it began in the year nineteen oh one,
Speaker 3: a year when Holmes was at the very pinnacle of
Speaker 3: success by the turn of the centuries. You know, the
Speaker 3: name of Sherlock Holmes was famous in every corner of
Speaker 3: the civilized world, and people stared at him whenever he
Speaker 3: walked out of our quarters at Baker Street. And then
Speaker 3: very suddenly it became very dangerous to be a celebrated
Speaker 3: person in the city of London. In the short space
Speaker 3: of three weeks, four persons of great prominence were struck
Speaker 3: down by a mysterious assassin, and finally, in great desperation
Speaker 3: in Speculus, Strad asked us to appear at Scotland Yard.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, you understand Scotland Yards conducting its own investigation
Speaker 4: of the battling murders.
Speaker 2: Oh, quite, Inspectulus, stars quite.
Speaker 1: In due time.
Speaker 4: Of course, we should know, doubt trap this peculiaris as him.
Speaker 1: However, knowing your taste for.
Speaker 4: The unusual, and admitting that you have some gallons in
Speaker 4: these matters.
Speaker 2: Coming from you, Inspector, I consider that a great comfortence
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we've never been reluctant to give the official police
Speaker 3: a hand in these unusual matters.
Speaker 2: Hey, hosts, no, what we have not now? Then inspecton? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: let us review the facts. A mysterious and deadly killer
Speaker 2: is roaming the metropolis of London. His special victims are
Speaker 2: persons of great prominence. In the last three weeks he's
Speaker 2: assassinated a great English beauty, a champion heavyweight futurist, a
Speaker 2: world famous astronomer, and a famous admiral.
Speaker 3: Yes, and every one of them a likely candidate for
Speaker 3: any Hall of Day.
Speaker 2: Quite Watson, quite, But to continue inspecton. In each case
Speaker 2: the celebrated victims valuables were not taken from their copsies.
Speaker 2: In short, we made a deuce that those important people
Speaker 2: were murdered for some other motive.
Speaker 1: Rather than money. That is correct me to Huns. But
Speaker 1: we have found no gills, no traits.
Speaker 2: Exactly inspected, Austrade, you find no clue, no trae. You
Speaker 2: have let the trail go cold, and we must make
Speaker 2: a fresh start. Come Watson, virtuo Home Baker Street, My
Speaker 2: dear fellow Baker speak to think the plan to use
Speaker 2: the tools of logic, assuming of course, that we are
Speaker 2: fortunate enough to find a cab in this foul weather.
Speaker 3: Why jove, Holmes, we're in luck. There's a cab at
Speaker 3: the curb right here on Darby Street. You can just
Speaker 3: make it out in this beastly far's hello, that hello,
Speaker 3: cab early seen us? You know, I must say I
Speaker 3: anticipated the dreary until we wait. It's rather surprised the
Speaker 3: cab run. He's driving his horse, spread, Holmes, he's trying
Speaker 3: to run us down homes.
Speaker 5: Are you all right?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: What's I'm quite all right. Just managed to get out
Speaker 2: of the way of those horses.
Speaker 3: Yes, with that drive. What the jews was he trying
Speaker 3: to do of this, My.
Speaker 2: Dear Watson, he was trying to kill me.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank heaven, Holmes were finally heard Baker Street. I've
Speaker 3: had a feeling that some kind of danger was stalking
Speaker 3: us through this wretched farm.
Speaker 1: That's quite Watson.
Speaker 2: As for myself, I am aware of the danger, not
Speaker 2: as a mere presentiment, but as an actual fact. What
Speaker 2: do you mean the driver of the carriage on Darby's
Speaker 2: feet he might very well be the assassin we seek. Remember, Watson,
Speaker 2: I am a person of some renown and am therefore
Speaker 2: vulnerable to his rather peculiar taste for victims. Here's our door.
Speaker 3: Yes, what we need now, Holmes, is a good fire.
Speaker 3: Hooves the top of the steps outside of flat.
Speaker 2: There's some one looking there, see shadow? Quick, what's down
Speaker 2: down the.
Speaker 3: Hoose? Hose of you?
Speaker 2: I'm all right? Will it just grazed my neck, went
Speaker 2: through the color of my great coat. Quick up the stairs,
Speaker 2: offering well hose.
Speaker 3: The beggar went up the stairs under the roof. I
Speaker 3: lost him in the fog. Cus it homes. Yes, Watson,
Speaker 3: you think this assassin's is the same.
Speaker 2: Who is accounted to the others. Yes, I must certainly
Speaker 2: think he is the driver of that carriage and the
Speaker 2: man looking in our hallway are one of the same.
Speaker 5: Well hopes.
Speaker 2: You've got to be careful.
Speaker 3: He's made two attempts on your life, and one night
Speaker 3: the beggar may try still again.
Speaker 2: Undoubtedly he will, Watson. It seems that for the moment
Speaker 2: the hunter becomes the hunted. But I hope to reverse
Speaker 2: that order in a very short time.
Speaker 3: Dash it homes. I must say, you're rather matter of
Speaker 3: fact about this whole.
Speaker 2: Thing, quite Watson. I'm thoroughly aware that my personal existence
Speaker 2: is in great jeopardy, but I cannot allow any emotion
Speaker 2: on this scord to cloud my reason. The assassin who
Speaker 2: seeks my life is a very cool fellow, and I
Speaker 2: must meet him on his own ground. But the hour
Speaker 2: is late, Watson. There'll be time enough tomorrow to deal
Speaker 2: with my assailant.
Speaker 3: What the what's wake up.
Speaker 5: Homes?
Speaker 3: What the devil?
Speaker 2: We seem to have a nocturnality time, mister Hall, mister Holt,
Speaker 2: for the love of Heaven, met me any if I
Speaker 2: had your pistol ready, Watson, as I'm already host.
Speaker 3: Wonder what the juice the beggar want? Three o'clock in
Speaker 3: the morning.
Speaker 1: You'll soon see, my dear.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a hard names. Governor of the Bank of.
Speaker 1: Ingram Mister Holmes, shut.
Speaker 3: The door quicker by jove, he's got a gas across
Speaker 3: his cheek.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, doctor Watson. An assassin attacked me with a
Speaker 6: knife near my home.
Speaker 1: Just grave me. It was not seriously bleeding stuff.
Speaker 2: I came straight here. Pray be seated, retch johnself. Thank
Speaker 2: you now then will say you were attacked, Yes, mister Holmes, Yes,
Speaker 2: I couldn't get a glimpse of him in the fog.
Speaker 2: But I think the fellow followed me to your very door. Interesting, then, Holmes,
Speaker 2: it must be the same fellow. Undoubted they wants them.
Speaker 2: The killer is abroad tonight, pursuing his strange custom of
Speaker 2: hunting illustrious persons such as Sir Hartley.
Speaker 3: How does it happen, Sir Hartley, that you didn't go
Speaker 3: to the official police.
Speaker 6: Or impossible, Doctor Watson. That could be an only disaster.
Speaker 6: The financial structure of the empire is based on delicate factors.
Speaker 6: If it became known that my life was in jeopardy,
Speaker 6: it might cause a panic on the exchange, a run
Speaker 6: on the bank.
Speaker 2: Sir Hartley is quite right, Watson. Mister Holmes, what shall
Speaker 2: I do at the moment? There's but one thing to do,
Speaker 2: Sir Hartley. Dr Watson and I will escort you to
Speaker 2: your home, and when you get there, lock your door
Speaker 2: and boat your windows, and under no circumstances leave unless
Speaker 2: I summon you.
Speaker 3: Well, now that we've seen, Sir Hartley safely under lock
Speaker 3: and key, if you look forward to a night's sleep there,
Speaker 3: good Lord, five in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yes, Onston, it's good to be back at Baker.
Speaker 3: Street, especially in view of this beastly weather. The fobs
Speaker 3: turned to rain. Oh someone's coming.
Speaker 4: Our way, begging your pardon, gentlemen, which one of you
Speaker 4: is Sherlock Holmes?
Speaker 2: I am Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 4: Oh indeed, so you are the great homes the world's
Speaker 4: most famous detective.
Speaker 2: Cat not thensas state your business?
Speaker 4: Oh, oh, my dear mister Holmes, I have no business.
Speaker 5: It's it's just.
Speaker 4: That I wanted to look at you. It isn't often
Speaker 4: the poor man like myself can stand face to face
Speaker 4: with the great person like yourself. No, indeed, it isn't often.
Speaker 4: I must say, you look exactly like your photographs.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I am flattered. And now, my good man,
Speaker 2: if you've had your fillip staring at me, we should
Speaker 2: like to enter our quarters.
Speaker 4: Oh, no offense, mister Holmes, the offense at all. It's
Speaker 4: just that I'll be able to tell my friends I.
Speaker 5: Thought a great home.
Speaker 3: The cheek of the fellow horses, the infernal impudence of
Speaker 3: the bounder.
Speaker 2: Watson, Hey, did you notice that old man's coat and shoe?
Speaker 3: I know, interesting that it holds what in blazers are
Speaker 3: you talking about?
Speaker 1: First, Watson?
Speaker 2: The man's coat was hardly wet yet it's raining. The second,
Speaker 2: certain areas of his boots seemed to be waterproofed. The
Speaker 2: rain dampened the letter only in spotches.
Speaker 3: Well, what of it?
Speaker 2: I merely mentioned these of elementary observations, Watson, which may
Speaker 2: or may not soo significant. But for the first time
Speaker 2: I believe I see a glimmer of light in this
Speaker 2: very intriguing adventure. Well, doctor Watson, so far it's been
Speaker 2: quite a story, yes, mister.
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Speaker 3: with dizzying speed. I shall relate to you the second
Speaker 3: half of this remarkable adventure after you tell your audience
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Speaker 7: Doctor Watson. You were relating to us the adventure of
Speaker 7: the fabulous celebrity.
Speaker 3: Yes, mister Harris, I was on the evening after I
Speaker 3: encounter with a strange old man a note with thrust
Speaker 3: and droud door. It carried the wax and sea the
Speaker 3: Bank of England at Its signer was Sir Hotley Am.
Speaker 3: It was an urgent method from Sir Hatley, bidding us
Speaker 3: to meet him that night at the warehouse he owned
Speaker 3: at arm dead Wark, London Bridge. The note said simply
Speaker 3: that Sir Hartley had some new and vital information on
Speaker 3: the assessed and he wished to transmit this information to us.
Speaker 3: I was watching my friend's face as he finished reading
Speaker 3: the letter, and I saw his eyes narrow. Then quickly
Speaker 3: Holmes examined the seal through his magnifying glass.
Speaker 2: Ah, what is it, my dear Watson. This feel of
Speaker 2: the Bank of Engdon is a forgery, precisely a devilishly
Speaker 2: clever piece of work of pine imitation. The forgery, nevertheless,
Speaker 2: send the letter is focus on the will.
Speaker 3: And it's a trap. Someone is trying to lure us
Speaker 3: to that. Well quite well, then we better hurr it
Speaker 3: to Sir Hartleys than warn him.
Speaker 2: I fear it too, Lake Watson, I'm willing to wager
Speaker 2: that sir Hartley has in some similar manner endured from
Speaker 2: his home. I'm willing to wage up further that he
Speaker 2: is at the warehouse with Holmes.
Speaker 3: If it's a trap, surely will not go in.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, we are perhaps, Watson, we can spring
Speaker 2: the killer trap without favoring the ch.
Speaker 3: So where houses are dark and chilly.
Speaker 4: Purse was.
Speaker 2: Thirty And if I'm with you there, watch and it
Speaker 2: only seems as I have a feeling we're being watched.
Speaker 1: Tell you the truth?
Speaker 3: So do I walking up this corridor between these huge
Speaker 3: piles and machineries.
Speaker 2: Yes, marine machinery, the hearty aims, among other things on
Speaker 2: the steamship line.
Speaker 1: And Hose, what is it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I just kicked something?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 3: Something solid?
Speaker 2: It felt low my body. There's quick Pott in the
Speaker 2: match here you are, Hose, quick Heavens. It's a Hartly aim, Yes,
Speaker 2: shut through the heart and note Watson, there's a flake
Speaker 2: of paraffine and his left nostril a significant detail on
Speaker 2: my dad.
Speaker 3: That's what hold? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: A quick setch of the heartless pockets? I have an
Speaker 2: eye the other.
Speaker 1: Is it hose note, Watson, a porged note.
Speaker 2: From myself, just not hardly asking him to meet us here.
Speaker 3: So that's how so hotly is your from his.
Speaker 2: Holy you remember I gave him strict orders not to move,
Speaker 2: and if he heard from him, Watson, that kind of creaked.
Speaker 2: Just the bbbit's poppling down the car. What's you are? Right?
Speaker 3: His homes?
Speaker 2: There goes the killer. He running too a brear entrance.
Speaker 3: Halt you, blagger, half cassid hose the the beggar got
Speaker 3: away from us again he did. Indeed, Watson, I must confess, Homes.
Speaker 3: I'm not the hand with the pistol. I was at
Speaker 3: my wand you know time and age, jim a man's
Speaker 3: arm a thin. I saw the boundary shadow moving along
Speaker 3: the fence behind the warehouse. Here I saw him go
Speaker 3: through the real gate. Did I'm all the word?
Speaker 2: Come, Watson, don't be too upset. Our quarries sought to
Speaker 2: kill two birds with one stone that he managed to
Speaker 2: down only one moreover in his escape, He's unwittingly given
Speaker 2: us some valuable information. It is significant that he did
Speaker 2: not hurdle that low fence, but chose a long way
Speaker 2: to the gate, even though you were firing at him.
Speaker 1: I confess, don't you, Watson?
Speaker 2: Come then, come the conclusion of elementary generate. I'm becoming
Speaker 2: rather tired of being struck by the Sussassin. I know
Speaker 2: who he is, and it's high time we closed with him.
Speaker 3: You know who he is?
Speaker 1: I do, indeed more than.
Speaker 2: That, I know when I can find him well in
Speaker 2: a large brick building on Melbourne Road, just east of
Speaker 2: Baker Street, and only a few doors from.
Speaker 1: Our own room.
Speaker 2: That brick building precisely what it houses, that famous London museum,
Speaker 2: Madam Tussaul's Waxworth.
Speaker 3: Wooden blazes homes. Would the killer be doing it? Madam
Speaker 3: Tussau's Waxworth supposed to go.
Speaker 2: There and find out? Watson, you mean tomorrow morning and
Speaker 2: the contrary, Watson, I mean tonight. All right, pots and
Speaker 2: close that window.
Speaker 3: Jenny, I suppose you're aware we're breaking.
Speaker 2: My dear Watson, I cannot quibble with legal technicalities at
Speaker 2: this moment. Come that's inspected museum.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a early places night. I must say. All
Speaker 3: these wax figures standing around, they look juice in life
Speaker 3: like that look hot. Here's Napoleon Bonapart Judus Caesar Oliver Cromwell,
Speaker 3: whose well.
Speaker 2: It's yes, what's in a new wax effigy of the
Speaker 2: Hartley Ends made within the last ten minutes. The waxing
Speaker 2: face is still warm to the touch, and the scar
Speaker 2: from the assassin's knife still shows.
Speaker 3: And the killer made a mold of Sir Hartley's face
Speaker 3: as he lay dead in the warehouse.
Speaker 1: Decisely watch them.
Speaker 2: You recall a fake of paraffine we found into Hartley's nostril.
Speaker 1: And what assumes right under that door?
Speaker 2: So who is shore the hundred grips with our quality?
Speaker 1: That is who?
Speaker 2: Now the pistol is already follow me. There was no
Speaker 2: one in here whose true seems to be a small workshomp.
Speaker 3: Yes, hoose, good lord, look at that waxen statchues.
Speaker 2: Yes you recognize it, Watson, Well.
Speaker 3: It's a waxen image of you, Hose.
Speaker 2: It is indeed made by our master artist, our friend
Speaker 2: dear captain, getting in a little preliminary work before he
Speaker 2: did away with me. I do think the nose is
Speaker 2: a little too aquiline, and the face rather thin. But
Speaker 2: Watson's get back against the wall, the killers coming back
Speaker 2: into his workshop. But those who is it obvious the
Speaker 2: strange old man. We met on the pavement at the
Speaker 2: entrance to Baker Street.
Speaker 1: Be ready when he comes to Martin.
Speaker 2: Stand where you are and don't reach for that knight,
Speaker 2: My dear fellow, I assure you doctor Watson will not
Speaker 2: hesitate to blow your head off. But the slight is provaca.
Speaker 4: That's all you've caught me, Mister Holmes, you've finally caught hold.
Speaker 2: I have, indeed, and I assure you that you're hung
Speaker 2: for your crimes in very short order.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter, mister Holmes, nothing matters. Let them hang
Speaker 5: me now, Let them hang Old Lufflur, the greatest artist
Speaker 5: in wax. The world is even home in Heaven's.
Speaker 3: Name, Laflir, Why did you commit these these terrible murders
Speaker 3: to Watson?
Speaker 5: I am an artist, a great artist, Hi Luffleur, who
Speaker 5: studied under the great marinee to all. But I am
Speaker 5: old and sick, and I have not long to live.
Speaker 5: The museum was about to retire me, and that I
Speaker 5: didn't want to retire. I still had what to do.
Speaker 4: There are great men and women still living worthy of
Speaker 4: recognition in Madame Pruto's waxworks. I wanted to carve their
Speaker 4: images in wax for posterity. But I had so little time,
Speaker 4: so little time, and the museum would not allow me
Speaker 4: to immortalize them until they were dead.
Speaker 2: So you took matters in your own hand.
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes, I couldn't wait for them to die,
Speaker 5: so I had to kill them myself. You, mister Holmes,
Speaker 5: you were to be my greatest brier.
Speaker 2: I had already begun.
Speaker 4: Work on you and reserved a favored place for you
Speaker 4: here in the museum nat Ton Pourium.
Speaker 3: Host. Now we have delivered our passin to inspect the
Speaker 3: strad I still don't see how you detected all the flowers,
Speaker 3: but how you traced him to Madame Tusser.
Speaker 2: I'm pious by dear Watson's. First of all, I knew
Speaker 2: the killer was an old man. Remember he was not
Speaker 2: agile enough to climb over that low fence in the
Speaker 2: rear of the warehouse, even when he was under fire.
Speaker 2: Then to Watson, you recall the time he met old
Speaker 2: outflirred in the rain in front of our rooms here. Yes,
Speaker 2: his coat was only slightly wet. That indicated he walked
Speaker 2: for a short distance, and Madame Tussau's is only a
Speaker 2: few steps from here, but his boots gave him away
Speaker 2: Watson's house. They were waterproof in some spots and work
Speaker 2: in others. That meant that his boots were splotched with
Speaker 2: drippings of wax. Watsons, the material of his profession, the
Speaker 2: forgery of the wax seal of the Bank of England,
Speaker 2: and of course the flake of paraffine which foundhim to
Speaker 2: Harts nostrils were added evidence. There is only one question
Speaker 2: left unanswered in my mind, Watson.
Speaker 3: Yes, what's that post?
Speaker 2: I wonder how I would have looked in wax standing
Speaker 2: next to Napoleon. Well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting adventure. Indeed,
Speaker 2: thank you, mister Harris.
Speaker 3: I thought you'd find it interesting. However, I might add
Speaker 3: that Holmes never got his wish. Madame Tussau's waxworks burned
Speaker 3: down in marks of nineteen twenty five, and all the
Speaker 3: Napoleonic relics were destroyed.
Speaker 2: See and doctor, what adventure will have for us next week?
Speaker 3: Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you the
Speaker 3: adventure of the Bloomsbury Ballast. It concerns a punch ticket,
Speaker 3: an empty cold scuttle and a sentimental soft