Speaker 1: But tonight, I think I'll tell you how Holmes disillusioned
Speaker 1: the charming young lady and consequently saved her from what
Speaker 1: is commonly called a feat worse than death. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but before we begin to get too involved in that
Speaker 1: rather complicated affair, mister has, you'd better say a few
Speaker 1: words on the subject that's very appropriated this particular season
Speaker 1: of the year.
Speaker 2: A very good idea, doctor Watson. Here's a fact you
Speaker 2: ought to know.
Speaker 3: There's no reason in the world for you to pay
Speaker 3: high prices for a beautifully tailored, smartly styled suit of clothes,
Speaker 3: not with clipper Craft available. Clipper Craft clothes feature long
Speaker 3: wearing fabrics, are superbly made and better than fairly priced,
Speaker 3: despite rising costs of materials and manufacturing. There's a big
Speaker 3: reason clipper Craft clothes are priced so modestly. It's the
Speaker 3: famous clipper Craft Plan. Concentrating the buying power of ten
Speaker 3: hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores from coast
Speaker 3: to coast, providing steady year round operation, lowering manufacturing and
Speaker 3: distribution costs. It makes available the finest suits you've ever
Speaker 3: seen for only forty to forty seven fifty and some
Speaker 3: tropicals at thirty three seventy five to forty dollars, and
Speaker 3: sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Naturally, more fine
Speaker 3: stores than ever are welcoming the clipper Craft plan. These
Speaker 3: are the days it really goes to work for you.
Speaker 3: Compare clippercraft with clothes selling for many dollars more. And
Speaker 3: now back to the young lady who was about to
Speaker 3: be rescued by mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: No less right.
Speaker 1: It was September third, nineteen hundred and three, a few
Speaker 1: years after my marriage. If you remember well, I'd dropped
Speaker 1: around to Baker Street in the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 1: There with Homes lying on the sofa, pipe in hand,
Speaker 1: a piece of letter paper dangling from his long, lean fingers.
Speaker 1: But the thing that surprised me most was the appearance
Speaker 1: of the room itself. Hello, I say, Holmes, what's up?
Speaker 1: Have we reached the millennium?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I'm alluding to the unprecedented.
Speaker 2: Tightness of the room that missus Hudson's doing.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's got wind of the fact that I'm expecting
Speaker 3: a call from Sir James Damery this afternoon, and she
Speaker 3: took a mean advantage of my being out of the
Speaker 3: house this morning to commit this, this atrocity.
Speaker 1: Oh, not a bad idea.
Speaker 3: I won't be able to find anything for weeks and
Speaker 3: my hair look at it.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't tell me, missus Hudson made you brushly. Women
Speaker 1: are tyrants, Watson tyrants?
Speaker 4: Oh rubbish?
Speaker 1: I say, what's all this about, Sir James Damery?
Speaker 3: What what does he want beyond this charming note which
Speaker 3: says he will be here at four point thirteen and
Speaker 3: that the matter is extremely delicate and important. I know
Speaker 3: about as much about the matter as you do, which
Speaker 3: is absolutely enough.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you admitted. I said, Look here, Holmes,
Speaker 1: isn't this Chap Dammary a pretty important person in the
Speaker 1: diplomatic service?
Speaker 4: Quite? Hello?
Speaker 2: Isn't that a carriage I hear drawing up in front
Speaker 2: of our house?
Speaker 1: Oh? Bad, Joe. Oh it's a handsome turn out homes
Speaker 1: two men on the box.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't imagine that carriage belongs to Sir James himself.
Speaker 3: He must be acting for someone else, by jove, the
Speaker 3: crest on the door. Uh huh, So it's as serious
Speaker 3: as that.
Speaker 1: I stay, Holmes, You've got deuce and good eyesight. I
Speaker 1: can't make out the crest at all. It's just as well,
Speaker 1: my dear Watson, just as well. Ah, here comes Dawnedy himself.
Speaker 3: I say he is a handsome fellow, Yes, a splendid fellow,
Speaker 3: honest and understanding and clever, deuced clever, my dear Watson.
Speaker 1: Oh, I suppose to say that because he had the
Speaker 1: intelligence to come to you instead of going to Scotland. Oh,
Speaker 1: look at missus Hudson opening the door to him. All
Speaker 1: start up, her face as red as a beach.
Speaker 3: She'll talk about this for weeks, dear dear women shall
Speaker 3: go into raptures over the color of.
Speaker 2: His eyes, the fit of his coat. Till come in,
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 5: It's sir James Dannery to see you.
Speaker 2: Sir, well ask him to come in.
Speaker 5: Yes, just be so good as to step this way,
Speaker 5: your lordship.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Yes, sir, don't forget to close
Speaker 6: the door, Missus Hudson. Oh no, sir, you've created quite
Speaker 6: a little flutter in our household, Sir James, as you
Speaker 6: can see.
Speaker 7: It's so good of you to see me, mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: And oh this I think it is doctor Watson. I
Speaker 7: hope to find you here delighted to make your acquaintance,
Speaker 7: my dear doctor.
Speaker 1: The pleasures. Man, I'm sure I won't you sit down.
Speaker 7: Say Dr Watson's collaboration may be vital, mister Holmes, For
Speaker 7: we are dealing on this occasion with a violent and
Speaker 7: ruthless man. I may safely say there is no more
Speaker 7: dangerous man in Europe.
Speaker 3: I have outwitted several opponents to whom that flattering term
Speaker 3: has been applied.
Speaker 2: Who is this, Sir Pedagon?
Speaker 3: Sir James, have you ever heard of Baron Gruna, the
Speaker 3: Austrian murderer?
Speaker 7: So you have already sized him up as a murderer.
Speaker 3: It's my business to follow the details of continental crime.
Speaker 3: I'm as sure that he killed his wife at the
Speaker 3: time of the so called accident at Flugan Pass as
Speaker 3: if i'd seen him do it. Yes, I knew also
Speaker 3: that he'd come.
Speaker 2: To England and was convinced that sooner or later he'd
Speaker 2: find some work to do.
Speaker 7: Then you sympathize with the client and whose interest.
Speaker 3: I'm acting, yes, and I guess you were only an intermediary.
Speaker 4: Who's the principle, mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: I must beg you not to press that question. It
Speaker 7: is important that his honored name should not be dragged
Speaker 7: into the matter.
Speaker 2: I am accustomed to have mystery at one end of
Speaker 2: my case is Sir James, but not that both. I
Speaker 2: fear our mister Claire.
Speaker 7: May I at least lay the facts of the.
Speaker 4: Case before you.
Speaker 2: By all means you have.
Speaker 7: No doubt heard of General de Murville.
Speaker 1: De Meurville, I general of kiber fame. The old Bulldog.
Speaker 1: Why I remember the great day.
Speaker 2: Watson, Watson told you to rupt.
Speaker 4: Oh very well.
Speaker 7: Well, the old bulldog has a daughter, Violet de Murder, young,
Speaker 7: rich and beautiful. It is this daughter, this lovely innocent girl,
Speaker 7: whom we are endeavoring to say from that fiend Grunner,
Speaker 7: he has some hold over her. She's in love with him,
Speaker 7: mister Horns. At least she thinks she is a mad infatuation.
Speaker 7: She Oh, she's obsessed by the man, and proposes to
Speaker 7: marry him next month. There's very little her family can do,
Speaker 7: as she is of age and has a will of iron.
Speaker 3: Her father's daughter, Watson, Oh, sorry, does she know about
Speaker 3: the Austrian episode.
Speaker 7: The rascal has told her every savory public scandal of
Speaker 7: his past life, always in such a way as to
Speaker 7: make himself out to be an innocent.
Speaker 4: Martyr cunning devil.
Speaker 1: But surely, said James, you let out the name of
Speaker 1: your client, it must be General de Murville.
Speaker 7: I could deceive you, mister Holmes, by saying so.
Speaker 2: My dear damer. It takes more than that to deceive me.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I suppose. Let us say then that my
Speaker 7: client is an old friend who has known the General
Speaker 7: intimately for years and has taken a paternal interest in
Speaker 7: the girl since she wore short props. It was his
Speaker 7: suggestion that you should be called in very flattering.
Speaker 3: Your problem interests me, sir James. I'm prepared to look
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 7: Excellent. In case of developments, you can reach me at
Speaker 7: the Carlton Club and the baron's address Vernon Lodge, near Kingston.
Speaker 7: It's a large house. He has been fortunate in some
Speaker 7: shady speculations and is a rich man worse luck.
Speaker 3: Yes, that makes him all the more dangerous as an antagonist.
Speaker 3: Can you give me.
Speaker 2: Any further information about him? His personal habits?
Speaker 7: I mean he has expensive tastes, a horse, fancier, plays polo,
Speaker 7: collects books women. As a recognized authority on Chinese pottery,
Speaker 7: has even written a book on the subject.
Speaker 3: M Chinese pottery a complex mind like most great criminals. Well,
Speaker 3: sir James, you will inform your client that I am
Speaker 3: undertaking the case of the Baron Grunard.
Speaker 7: I am exceedingly grateful, mister her not talk well. Good luck, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: and good afternoon.
Speaker 1: After dear me. This is a delicate situation, Eh well, Watson,
Speaker 1: any news, Well, I should think you'd better see the
Speaker 1: young lady herself de Murbile's daughter. No, no, no, that's
Speaker 1: more or less of the last resort. No young woman
Speaker 1: in love is ever very reasonable, and Violet has her
Speaker 1: father's determination or probability.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: First of all, I think I shall consult Shinwell Johnson.
Speaker 1: Shinwell Johnson, who's he.
Speaker 3: I'll suppose we meet for lunch to morrow at Simpson's.
Speaker 3: I'll ask him to drop a round with any information
Speaker 3: he's been able to pick up. Don't disappoint me, Watson.
Speaker 3: I think I may be able to introduce you to
Speaker 3: a colorful personality.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll be there and never appear.
Speaker 3: At the glass of Carret waiter. Yes, well, Watson, Johnson's
Speaker 3: on the prowl. He may pick up some garbage in
Speaker 3: the dark recesses of the underworld. But it's down there
Speaker 3: that you must look for. Baron Gruner's secrets.
Speaker 1: Yes, but who's this Shimble Johnson.
Speaker 3: Fellow an ex convict whom I've succeeded in reforming, serve
Speaker 3: two terms at Parkhurst. Consequently, he has the entree to
Speaker 3: every nightclub, dosshouse and gambling then in town. An ideal
Speaker 3: agent for gaining information.
Speaker 2: Watson.
Speaker 1: Yes, but if miss Violen's not affected by what she
Speaker 1: already knows, why should any discovery of mister Johnson's change
Speaker 1: her mind?
Speaker 3: Who knows, Watson, woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles
Speaker 3: to the mail murder might be condoned or explained, and
Speaker 3: yet some smaller offense might rankle. As Baron Bruno remarked
Speaker 3: this morning, you can't assow you've seen him, And to
Speaker 3: be sure, didn't I tell you no?
Speaker 2: Dear me, how careless of me.
Speaker 3: I always like to meet my adversary eye to eye
Speaker 3: and find out for myself the stuff that he's made of.
Speaker 1: Didn't you recognize you?
Speaker 2: Naturally? I sent in my card?
Speaker 3: You are a character Holmes an excellent antagonist. Is Darren Brunner,
Speaker 3: a real aristocrat of crime, cool as ice, and as
Speaker 3: poisonous as a cobra.
Speaker 4: I rather thought I should see you sooner or later,
Speaker 4: mister Holmes. I understand you have been engaged to prevent
Speaker 4: my marriage to the daughter of General de Merville. Quite
Speaker 4: Daron Gruner, my dear fellow, you will only ruin your
Speaker 4: famous reputation. Let me advise you to draw off at once.
Speaker 2: Dear me, that was the very advice I was about
Speaker 2: to give you.
Speaker 1: If you persist in this marriage, you'll raise a swarm
Speaker 1: of powerful enemies.
Speaker 2: Is the game worth it? Surely you'll be wiser if
Speaker 2: you left the lady alone.
Speaker 3: You can hardly wish certain facts about your.
Speaker 2: Past to be brought to her notice.
Speaker 4: No pardon my amusement, mister Holmes, but it's most amusing
Speaker 4: to see you trying to play a hand with no
Speaker 4: car gods in it.
Speaker 3: So you think I hold no clants, my dear baron,
Speaker 3: let me assure you I have several ass.
Speaker 2: Of my sleeve.
Speaker 4: Bluff, mister Holmes. Perhaps you don't realize that I hold
Speaker 4: the affection of this lady in spite of all the
Speaker 4: unhappy incidents of my past. I've also told her that
Speaker 4: certain wicked and designing persons, I hope you recognize yourself,
Speaker 4: would come to her and try to poison her mind
Speaker 4: against me. I also told her how to treat them.
Speaker 4: You've heard of post hypnotic suggestion. If you call on Violet,
Speaker 4: you will have an opportunity to see how it works. Er,
Speaker 4: dear little Violet, such a delightful subject for hypnotism. Hypnotic
Speaker 4: stell can be broken, my friend, only by a stronger personality.
Speaker 4: But by the way, mister Holmes, did you know Lebrown,
Speaker 4: the French agent. I did you know what happened to him?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: It was beaten and crippled for life.
Speaker 4: Quite true, mister Holmes, by a curate a coincidence. He
Speaker 4: had been inquiring into my affairs only a week before.
Speaker 4: Don't do it, mister Holmes, it's not lucky.
Speaker 1: Nasty brute, I say, Holmes, you'd better watch yourself. You'll
Speaker 1: stop at laughing.
Speaker 2: Quite two attempts have already been made on my life, Watson.
Speaker 3: I always disregard the blusterer, But this is the sort
Speaker 3: of chap who says rather less.
Speaker 4: Than he means.
Speaker 1: But look, here comes Shinwell Johnson, the red faced fellow
Speaker 1: with the beefyjowls and the tremendous gold watch chain. But
Speaker 1: I say, who's his companion? The young woman I mean
Speaker 1: with a pale, intense look. She looks as if she
Speaker 1: lived at homes. Yes, a dark page from Baron Groomer's pastor.
Speaker 1: Imagine hard good afternoon.
Speaker 2: She will good. No, mister old waiter, bring an extra
Speaker 2: chair for the lady.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's better, Eliss. Here is miss Kitty Water.
Speaker 1: How do you do what?
Speaker 8: She don't know about the baron, But she'll speak for herself.
Speaker 8: I found her within an hour after I heard from you.
Speaker 8: Quick work, heme, mister Olmes.
Speaker 2: I'm easy to find.
Speaker 5: The gutter London gets me every time. Same address for
Speaker 5: Porkish shinwell, but by cripes.
Speaker 2: Grooner, Yes, yes, yes, then I gather we have your
Speaker 2: good wishes.
Speaker 4: Miss Winter.
Speaker 5: Look at me what I am now? But Grooner made me.
Speaker 5: If I can help put him where he belongs, I'm
Speaker 5: yours to the death rattle.
Speaker 2: You know how the matter stands.
Speaker 5: He's after some other poor fool wants her to marry
Speaker 5: him this time. Eh, don't you know enough about him
Speaker 5: to keep any decent girl in her?
Speaker 2: Sensation is not in her senses she's in love. He
Speaker 2: knows pretty much all about it.
Speaker 5: She knows about the murder, Yes, good lord, she must
Speaker 5: have a nerve.
Speaker 2: She puts it all around to slander. We want proofs.
Speaker 2: Can you help us proofs?
Speaker 5: I think I'm proof enough. Let her take a look
Speaker 5: at me and listen to what I.
Speaker 7: Can tell her.
Speaker 2: Would you be willing to do it? Wouldn't I?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: Remember he's told her most.
Speaker 4: Of his past.
Speaker 5: I'll wager he didn't tell her all. I'll bet she
Speaker 5: don't know. He's got a book, a brown leather book
Speaker 5: with a lock.
Speaker 2: Must have been drunk that night.
Speaker 7: He wouldn't have showed it to me.
Speaker 2: What kind of a book? That devil collects women?
Speaker 5: Mister Holmes like some men collect butterflies. And he's proud
Speaker 5: of his collection. He's got it all in that book, snapshot, photographs, names, details, everything.
Speaker 5: If you could only lay hands on that book, he's
Speaker 5: probably got her in there with the rest of us.
Speaker 2: By this time.
Speaker 7: She liked that, wouldn't she?
Speaker 4: Where is this book?
Speaker 5: More than a year since I was in his study,
Speaker 5: I knew where it was kept. Then do you know
Speaker 5: his house?
Speaker 2: I've been in his study.
Speaker 5: I'll hand it to you for being on the job.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's met his match this time. Well, they are
Speaker 5: to study. Is where he keeps his Chinese crockery, a
Speaker 5: big glass cover between the windows. Then behind his desk
Speaker 5: is a door that leads to the inner study. It's
Speaker 5: in there that he keeps his papers and things.
Speaker 1: Isn't be afraid of burglars?
Speaker 5: Say what you like. He's no coward. He can look
Speaker 5: after himself. Besides, there's a burglar alarm at night.
Speaker 3: I see if we could get into that study in
Speaker 3: miss winter. You think you could show us where that
Speaker 3: book's hidden.
Speaker 1: Sure, here homes. You can't go breaking into a strange house.
Speaker 3: It's against the law quite an I wouldn't dream of
Speaker 3: doing it except as a last resort.
Speaker 2: But come along this winter. We'll see how far.
Speaker 3: Our legal efforts get us before we turn to other tactics.
Speaker 3: What do you mean, suppose we just drop in on
Speaker 3: mister Merville for a little chat.
Speaker 7: What a pretty drawing.
Speaker 5: It's been a long time since I You won't believe it,
Speaker 5: mister Holmes, when I tell you I once had a
Speaker 5: nice home too.
Speaker 3: Obviously, my dear, I can tell by your hands you
Speaker 3: were a lady the rough talk you assumed to cover
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 4: Didn't fool me for a minute, sir.
Speaker 7: I'm so nervous.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I can.
Speaker 2: Go through with it.
Speaker 3: Courage will be over in the minute. Quiet, someone's coming, ah,
Speaker 3: mister Murville. If I'm not mistaken, mister.
Speaker 9: Holmes, I presume quite pray be seated. I've been expecting
Speaker 9: a visit from you. You have called, as I understand,
Speaker 9: to malign my fiance, Baron Groooner. It's only fair to
Speaker 9: warn you, mister Holmes, that you are wasting your time.
Speaker 9: Nothing you can say will have the slightest effect on
Speaker 9: my mind.
Speaker 3: My dear young woman, I wonder if you realize what
Speaker 3: it means to be married to a murderer, and worse,
Speaker 3: his reputation will by you from decent society in any
Speaker 3: civilized country. How could a woman of your upbringing consent.
Speaker 9: Mister Holmes. I am aware that my fiance has had
Speaker 9: a stormy life in which he has incurred bitter hatreds.
Speaker 9: You are only the last of a series to slander him.
Speaker 9: Don't think that I don't know your motive. You're a
Speaker 9: paid agent who would have been equally willing to act
Speaker 9: for the baron if he consented to pay your price.
Speaker 4: But here REFU really, mister Murbille.
Speaker 9: Moreover, mister Holmes, I am not clear why you should
Speaker 9: bring this this person into my drawing room.
Speaker 7: I have the slightest notion who she is.
Speaker 5: No, well, I'll tell you who I am. I'm his
Speaker 5: last victim. He'll kill you, that's what he'll do with
Speaker 5: may be a broken back or a broken heart, but
Speaker 5: he'll break you one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I don't need your protection, thank you.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's not for love of you, I'm speaking. I
Speaker 5: don't give a tinker's curse. If you live or die,
Speaker 5: it's because I hate him, do you hear? And you
Speaker 5: needn't look at me like that. God knows you maybe
Speaker 5: lower than I am. Before you're through, let me.
Speaker 9: See once for all that I'm aware of three passages
Speaker 9: in my fiance's life when he became entangled with designing women.
Speaker 7: Three passages.
Speaker 2: Three passages.
Speaker 7: She says, Oh, you fool, you fool. Wait till you
Speaker 7: see that book.
Speaker 3: From New York City, the makers of Flipper Craft Clothes
Speaker 3: for Men and ten hundred and thirty six leading retail
Speaker 3: stores from coast to coast present the world's most famous detective.
Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3: Clippercraft Plan, the plan that concentrates the buying power of
Speaker 3: ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores from
Speaker 3: coast to coast. And that's why you can buy luxurious
Speaker 3: long wearing fabrics in clipper Craft suits for only forty
Speaker 3: to forty seven fifty, find tropicals at thirty three seventy
Speaker 3: five to forty dollars, and sport jackets for only twenty
Speaker 3: six fifty.
Speaker 2: Ask any of the millions.
Speaker 4: Of men who wear clipper Craft clothes.
Speaker 3: For selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the
Speaker 3: nation's finest stores is the great, big idea behind the
Speaker 3: Clippercraft Plan. That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes.
Speaker 3: So be sure to visit the Clippercraft store in your city.
Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
Speaker 10: their names to clipper Craft in your suits, top coats,
Speaker 10: sport jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores
Speaker 10: Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street Sacks thirty
Speaker 10: fourth Broadway at thirty fourth. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
Speaker 10: in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop cresken Yarck, And
Speaker 10: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty
Speaker 10: four oh eight, Jamaica Avenue.
Speaker 3: Now to return to our adventure. In front of Sherlock
Speaker 3: Holmes lodgings at two twenty one B. Baker Street, we
Speaker 3: find an excited crowd of people.
Speaker 7: I say, have you heard the new sheet?
Speaker 9: Hey, this is Many Lives the poor Man of the
Speaker 9: poor Man in the paper's murderous attack on Sherlock Holme.
Speaker 1: They've murdered it that they've murded.
Speaker 7: It's an out great man's not shaving the streets anymore.
Speaker 2: But how did it happen? Too?
Speaker 7: Roughians outside the key Wigley They beat him with stixing.
Speaker 2: He was picked up for days.
Speaker 7: Oh he's dead.
Speaker 9: It's not dreadful. Shelock Holmes isn't dead.
Speaker 5: Let me.
Speaker 1: A doctor. Oh confounded? The bell won't ring.
Speaker 5: Oh here you are at last, doctor. What's some phraise
Speaker 5: beak coming coming?
Speaker 1: I've been out all afternoon, Missus Hudson. I've just got word.
Speaker 1: Is he badly hurt? Oh?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 5: They brought him in here all bleeding. They had to
Speaker 5: have that surgeon fellow folk.
Speaker 1: Shot Leslie oak shot.
Speaker 5: Then it is serious, Yes, sir, he's been taking stitches
Speaker 5: in him and giving him more fhee.
Speaker 1: Do you think I can go up for a moment?
Speaker 5: Well that so, what's his name?
Speaker 2: Said?
Speaker 5: As mister Olmes was to have absolute quiet, I had
Speaker 5: to stuff the doorbell on account of the newspaper.
Speaker 2: Fellows quite right about.
Speaker 5: Mister Olmes kept saying he had to see as soon
Speaker 5: as you came. So that surgeon fella said, all right,
Speaker 5: but only for ten minutes mine. Well good, I go
Speaker 5: right up, yes, sir, and let me know if he's
Speaker 5: wanting anything.
Speaker 4: This this terrible, terrible, it's all the button's doing.
Speaker 1: Of course, wait till I leapt wat's in this?
Speaker 2: It's not as bad as it seems.
Speaker 1: So thank god for that. Of course it's that rascal
Speaker 1: who set them on. I'll gone flash the height of him.
Speaker 4: If you say so, I could Watson.
Speaker 2: No, it's not necessary, but there is something you can.
Speaker 1: Do for me, anything, anything at all.
Speaker 2: We haven't much time.
Speaker 3: I've just discovered the baron is panning to a lope
Speaker 3: to South America with mister Merville day after tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Must be losing his nerve.
Speaker 1: What can we do in that short time?
Speaker 3: You are to spend the next twenty four hours in
Speaker 3: an intensive study of Chinese pottery.
Speaker 1: Me Chinese pottery homes your delivery.
Speaker 3: It's all hand me that little box from the mantlepiece,
Speaker 3: which would this one? Yes, that's right, Only I open
Speaker 3: it for me when he wants in these right clumsy bandages.
Speaker 3: I don't want to run any risk of breaking it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I say, it's a beautiful little deep blue saucer
Speaker 1: wrapped in silk.
Speaker 3: That is the real eggshell pottery of the Ming dynasty.
Speaker 3: A complete set of it would be worth a king's ransom.
Speaker 3: The Baron would sell his soul for a set like that?
Speaker 1: Am I to do with it?
Speaker 2: Here is your card?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, but this says doctor hill Barton see sixty
Speaker 1: nine and a half moons, That is your name.
Speaker 3: For tomorrow evening you will call on Baron Bruner at
Speaker 3: half past eight. The note's already been set making the
Speaker 3: appointment and saying that you're bringing a specimen of an
Speaker 3: absolutely unique set of Ming china. May as well be
Speaker 3: a medical man, since you can play that part without duplicity,
Speaker 3: and want to put too much of a strain on your.
Speaker 1: Acting ability, and I look here.
Speaker 2: I say, you're not going to go back on me
Speaker 2: at a time like this.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, of course not. But I say, what
Speaker 1: if he won't see me, he'll.
Speaker 2: See you right enough. He has the collector's mania, and
Speaker 2: it's most acute form.
Speaker 3: The important thing is to cram up on Chinese pottery,
Speaker 3: so you can carry on an intelligent conversation.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll do my best.
Speaker 2: Good half past eight tomorrow right now. Perhaps you'd better go.
Speaker 2: I afraid I feel a trifle weak.
Speaker 8: I'll find out if the Baron will see you, sir.
Speaker 1: I believe he's expecting me.
Speaker 4: Very good, sir, do you immediately?
Speaker 1: I wish my needs had stop wobbling about home Wu
Speaker 1: and Young Low, the writings of Tanging, the primitive periods
Speaker 1: of sung On. Did dear me?
Speaker 4: This is right this way.
Speaker 8: The Baron is in his study, the Chinese room, we
Speaker 8: call it, doctor Barton.
Speaker 4: Oh, praise it down, doctor, praise it down.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 4: I was just looking over my treasures. Have you ever
Speaker 4: seen a Richard glaze in this little tongue specimen?
Speaker 2: And delightful, delightful here?
Speaker 4: Oh? Have you the ming saucer with you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, indeed, I thought you might want to see it.
Speaker 1: Here it is, let me unwrap it for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, oh fine, very fine indeed, And you
Speaker 4: say you have a set of six to correspond, yes,
Speaker 4: I only know of one in England to match this,
Speaker 4: and it is certainly not on the market. Will it
Speaker 4: be in discreet doctor Barton to ask how you obtained this?
Speaker 1: Well, does it really matter? You can see the piece
Speaker 1: is genuine, undoubtedly.
Speaker 4: But suppose I should discover later that you have no
Speaker 4: right to sell.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd guarantee you against any claim of that sort.
Speaker 4: And what is your guarantee worth?
Speaker 1: My bankers would answer that.
Speaker 4: Yet, on the whole this business is very mysterious. Well,
Speaker 4: you can do business or not as you like.
Speaker 1: I've given you the first offer because I understood you
Speaker 1: were a coneisser who told you so. You wrote a
Speaker 1: book on the subject.
Speaker 4: I believe have you read the book?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: You are a collector with a valuable piece in your collection,
Speaker 4: and yet you have never trouble to consult the one
Speaker 4: book which would give you the real meaning and value
Speaker 4: of what you hold. How do you explain that.
Speaker 1: I'm a very busy man, doctor, impec.
Speaker 4: That's no answer. You sent me your note. You were
Speaker 4: a connoisseur, so I am. But what do you know
Speaker 4: of the Emperor? Shall move? How do you associate him
Speaker 4: with show so in Nionara?
Speaker 1: The matter? Does that puzzle you?
Speaker 4: What about the Northern Way dynasty?
Speaker 1: Oh? This is intolerable. I came here to do you
Speaker 1: a favor, not to be examined as if I were
Speaker 1: a school boy.
Speaker 4: Here is a spy, Sherlock Holmes sent you. What's the game?
Speaker 4: You've made your way in here without leave, but you're
Speaker 4: not going to find it so easy to get out again.
Speaker 4: I thought the beating he got yesterday would be enough
Speaker 4: to scare him off. But if he wants a copse,
Speaker 4: a prof trainer? What's that? Someone's in the inner study? Somebody?
Speaker 4: Uh huh, Sherlock Holmes himself. What the places are you're
Speaker 4: doing here?
Speaker 3: Just glancing through your diary rather lurid reading by dear fellow.
Speaker 3: I wonder what this spirelet will think of it? Put
Speaker 3: that book down?
Speaker 1: Put it down?
Speaker 4: I see you, fool my men bungled. I told him
Speaker 4: to kill you. Well, I'm going to complete the job myself.
Speaker 1: For got homes. He's got a name.
Speaker 2: No, you don't.
Speaker 7: I've got a little score on my own.
Speaker 4: A second, kilty, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5: Surprised to see me? I thought I killed myself by
Speaker 5: this time. Well, I'm going to fix you.
Speaker 4: You're most amusing and laugh.
Speaker 5: It'll be the last time.
Speaker 7: Very well, then, why didn't you stop it?
Speaker 1: Butterol is putting my eyes up the water, for Can's sake,
Speaker 1: water of pain. I can't stand the pain that's riding
Speaker 1: me crazy.
Speaker 9: Now, why don't you laugh?
Speaker 4: What a story? Doctor?
Speaker 3: And did mister Merriville break off the engagement when she
Speaker 3: saw the Baron's love diary?
Speaker 1: Oh dear me, yes, Sir James Caban collected it and
Speaker 1: the little sorcer of mean China the afternoon after an
Speaker 1: encounter with Groner. The day was in the Baron's own handwriting,
Speaker 1: there's no way of getting around that. The wages of sin,
Speaker 1: My dear mister Harris, the wages of sin. Be sure
Speaker 1: your false will.
Speaker 3: Find you out, they say, doctor Apropos of nothing at all?
Speaker 3: Was mister Holmes arrested for housebreaking?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: What an idea?
Speaker 1: Well, there was some rumor about a prosecution, I believe,
Speaker 1: But when the purpose is good and a client sufficiently illustrious,
Speaker 1: even the rigid British law becomes human and elastic. Holmes
Speaker 1: has yet to stand in the dock.
Speaker 2: And the illustrious client, Doctor, did you ever find out
Speaker 2: who he was?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I could make a good guess. On Sir james second visit,
Speaker 1: I escorted him down to his carriage, and quite the accident, mind,
Speaker 1: I caught a glimpse of that coat of arms before
Speaker 1: Sir James threw his overcoat half out of the window
Speaker 1: to cover it.
Speaker 4: And who was a doctor?
Speaker 1: Oh, I couldn't dream of telling beyond the fact that
Speaker 1: he was a loyal friend and a chivalrous gentleman. And
Speaker 1: his coat of arms had three ostridge plumes on the top.
Speaker 3: And of course you haven't the remotest idea, Oh, certainly not.
Speaker 3: And now, doctor, how about giving our friends and listeners
Speaker 3: a hint of out next week's story?
Speaker 2: Next week? There, let me see.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, next week, I think I think I'd tell
Speaker 1: you about some yellow roses that refused to die and
Speaker 1: how they nearly caused the death of a lovely young
Speaker 1: second wife who heard the voice of her husband's first
Speaker 1: wife calling to her from a watery grave.