Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, since we're all in the holiday mood,
Speaker 1: I'd guessed that you've deliberately selected the Adventure of the
Speaker 1: Blue Carbuncle for this Christmas Seaton.
Speaker 2: Indeed I have, mister Hellis.
Speaker 3: The adventure was both a Christmas tale and the most
Speaker 3: intriguing cry.
Speaker 2: It was Christmas morning. It was a glorious London Christmas.
Speaker 3: We'd had a thick blanket of snow on the streets,
Speaker 3: and it glistened in the flickering gas.
Speaker 2: Now and then a sleigh would dashed by.
Speaker 3: The horses transling along as though they shared the festive mood,
Speaker 3: shaking their heads, it seemed deliberately to jingle the bells
Speaker 3: on the harness. Stout gentlemen, their cheeks as red as
Speaker 3: could be, a broad grin on their faces, held the
Speaker 3: reins tightly in their mittens, carefully piloting their cargoes of
Speaker 3: gaily wrapped packages. At the corner of Good Street on
Speaker 3: Tottenham Court Road, a tall man with a point of beer,
Speaker 3: rather impublished looking was trudging along. He carried a white
Speaker 3: goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the corner,
Speaker 3: a group of young rowdins the gun of teaser.
Speaker 2: Yoh yeah, yeah, where are you going?
Speaker 4: God net a few paints for Christmas? I got deadly
Speaker 4: give you a few coins, but I really can't spare them.
Speaker 2: How about that goose you carry?
Speaker 1: And I BLI me, His majesty must hear plenty of
Speaker 1: spare things to bat a.
Speaker 2: Goose like that.
Speaker 4: No, please, this goose is all I can bring home
Speaker 4: to my family for Christmas.
Speaker 2: But I can knock his head off with a snowball.
Speaker 3: Don't even though he is so tall, even though he's
Speaker 3: always a chat steeper.
Speaker 2: Come on, do you have no a but if my goose, hey,
Speaker 2: watch his head now here goes my snowball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my good boy.
Speaker 2: You have knocked it off. Rag him up. You won't
Speaker 2: be here. He was walking stick of swinging now way,
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, thank you, not at all. My name
Speaker 2: is Peterson. Good heavens the police and I've broken that window.
Speaker 2: But thank you for a sipling met her and Merry
Speaker 2: Christmas to yourself. Wake you left your at there on
Speaker 2: the stone, you dropped your goose.
Speaker 1: Come back here, come back, So, my dear Watson Peterson
Speaker 1: was left the victor in the Battle of Puttenham Court
Speaker 1: Road with the stranger's battered hat and.
Speaker 2: His Christmas goose? What did he do with the spoils home?
Speaker 1: He brought him here to bake a treet, knowing that
Speaker 1: even the smallest problems the adventuest to me?
Speaker 2: Why didn't he return the hadn't the bird to the
Speaker 2: chap alone? My dear fellow, there lies the problem.
Speaker 1: Peterson does not know the identity of the tall, thin
Speaker 1: gentleman who vanished into the dark.
Speaker 2: Wasn't a single clue to the gentleman's identity? By now, Watson,
Speaker 2: you must have realized that it's never.
Speaker 1: A lack of clues, there's only a lack of the
Speaker 1: intelligence necessary to find them.
Speaker 3: Well, the rightful owner of the bird must we found
Speaker 3: immediately hers the poor devil's last is Christmas dinner?
Speaker 2: Christmas poppy cock?
Speaker 1: What clues did you find? A small card was tied
Speaker 1: to the bird's left leg. The card read for missus
Speaker 1: Henry Baker. Upon the lining of the hat, which I
Speaker 1: have here in my hand, you'll notice the initials HB.
Speaker 1: But as there are some thousands of Bakers, it's not
Speaker 1: easy to restore lost property to any.
Speaker 2: One of them. And where is the Christmas goose?
Speaker 1: By now I should say, it's fulfilling the ultimate destiny
Speaker 1: of every plump goose. We were afraid lest it's spoil.
Speaker 1: Therefore it's roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's fire.
Speaker 2: Is in the hope at all of finding this Henry
Speaker 2: Baker returning his head with a great deal of hope
Speaker 2: of finding him. I'm sorry the person about you like this,
Speaker 2: mister Elms.
Speaker 1: But the ghost, the Christmas ghost, I trust the news
Speaker 1: of the goose justifies the melodrama of your entrance, Peterson.
Speaker 2: Or mister mister Arms like answer. Goose says it returned
Speaker 2: to life and flat top through your kitchen window. Look,
Speaker 2: mister Realms, my wife found this and it's crop. Is
Speaker 2: that a diamond?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Yes, doctor watching it must be. It cuts into glasses
Speaker 2: though it were puddling. When you open the goose? Who
Speaker 2: found this precious stone inside of it?
Speaker 1: This is more than a precious stone, Waston, This is
Speaker 1: the precious stone. This is the Countess of Morcar's blue
Speaker 1: carb buncle? Is it rarely precisely? I ought to know
Speaker 1: its size and shape, seeing that I've read the advertisement
Speaker 1: about it in the Times every day.
Speaker 2: This blue carbuncle is unique. The reward of one thousand
Speaker 2: pounds for its return.
Speaker 1: Is certainly not a twentieth part of its market price
Speaker 1: reward of a thousand pass?
Speaker 3: Yes, er you mind if I said, well, didn't I
Speaker 3: read in the newspaper that it was last at the
Speaker 3: hotel Cosmopolitan.
Speaker 2: Home You did, Watson?
Speaker 1: On December the twenty second, John Horner, a plumber, was
Speaker 1: accused of having stolen it from the Countess's apartment.
Speaker 2: The evidence against him was very strong. Person pass.
Speaker 1: James Ryder, the head attendant at the hotel, accused Horner.
Speaker 1: He said he'd shown Horner to the Countess's dressing room
Speaker 1: so that Horner might prepare.
Speaker 2: A great bit of glue. Yes, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 1: Now Ryder left Horner alone in the room. When Ryder
Speaker 1: came back, Horner was gone. The bureau had been forced
Speaker 1: open on the box where the juror was kept lay empty.
Speaker 1: As as I see, there was a maid involved too,
Speaker 1: a Katherine Cusack. She rushed into the room when she
Speaker 1: heard writer shouting about the robbery and found the situation
Speaker 1: exactly as he described it in court.
Speaker 2: This Holmes.
Speaker 3: But if this Horner stole the jewel, how did it
Speaker 3: get into the bird and what has Henry Baker to
Speaker 3: do with all this.
Speaker 1: Mister Baker, Watson should provide a satisfactory explanation to that mystery.
Speaker 1: We shall determine his innocence or guilt by a simple
Speaker 1: test the moment we produce him.
Speaker 2: How shall we do that? Well, I had nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the robbery, you understand, I know one.
Speaker 1: On the moment, Peterson, we shall place an advertisement in
Speaker 1: the evening papers. Watson, that would be the simplest method.
Speaker 1: Would you give me a pencil and that slip of paper?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
Speaker 1: Here you are found at the corner of Goods Street,
Speaker 1: a goose and a black felt hat. Miss Henry Baker
Speaker 1: can have the same by applying at six point thirty
Speaker 1: this evening at two twenty one b Baker Street.
Speaker 2: Will he see it in the papers?
Speaker 1: Or undoubtedly, Watson, he's a poor man. The last is
Speaker 1: a heavy one, Peterson. Would you have this put in
Speaker 1: the evening papers?
Speaker 2: Very well, mister Ooms. And then a stone. I shall
Speaker 2: return the stone to the counties immediately. And oh Peterson,
Speaker 2: would you buy a goose on your way back and
Speaker 2: leave it with me?
Speaker 1: We must have one to give to this gentleman in
Speaker 1: place of the one which your family is now the
Speaker 1: bowing certainly, Miss Well good now, gentlemen, thousand paths of war.
Speaker 2: Great Lord of mercy, what a wonderful Christmas is?
Speaker 5: I'll be a thousand pounds Richard, god risky merry, gentlemen,
Speaker 5: li nothing you dismay, John.
Speaker 2: Now just look at this precious stone, Watson. Oh oh,
Speaker 2: there's incredibly beautiful, so pure, so brilliant.
Speaker 1: Quite that behind the beauty there's evil, Watson. This car
Speaker 1: buncle was found in the banks of the Amoy River
Speaker 1: in southern China.
Speaker 2: Why do they call the stone a car buncle? Hose?
Speaker 2: Is the carbuncle ruby red?
Speaker 1: Indeed it is, But this is a blue carbuncle, and
Speaker 1: the rarity of it has given it a sinister history.
Speaker 2: There have been several robberies and acid throwing, a suicide
Speaker 2: and two.
Speaker 1: Murders just for the sake of this forty grain weight
Speaker 1: of crystallized chuckle. You see, Whatson, And a great jewel
Speaker 1: such as this, every facet may stand for a bloody deep.
Speaker 1: If you were shopping for the finest silver, you would
Speaker 1: naturally look for the sterling mark. Similarly, you want assurance
Speaker 1: of quality and value when you shop for clothes. When
Speaker 1: you buy a clipper Craft, you get double assurance the
Speaker 1: name of the store plus the clipper Craft label. Now
Speaker 1: that's your proof that you're getting one of America's greatest values.
Speaker 1: You see, the clipper Craft label is the symbol of
Speaker 1: a remarkable plan that concentrates the immense purchasing power of
Speaker 1: more than twelve hundred fine independent stores from coast to coast.
Speaker 1: The savings on production and distribution goes straight into your pocket.
Speaker 2: Now, that's why your truly expensive.
Speaker 1: Looking clipper Craft topcode or overcoat is only forty to
Speaker 1: forty seven fifty. And that's why millions of men cheer
Speaker 1: the incredibly modest prices of Clippercraft's new zipper lining topcoats.
Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes
Speaker 1: bearing the clipper Craft labels.
Speaker 2: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
Speaker 2: your city.
Speaker 1: And remember that's one of the more than twelve hundred
Speaker 1: leading retail stores across the nation where courtesy and friendly
Speaker 1: service are always yours, the store that is proud to
Speaker 1: add its fine names to that of clipper Craft Clothes
Speaker 1: in the label of your suit, top code and overcoat.
Speaker 1: And remember also, not every pattern is always available in
Speaker 1: your size, but keep trying. It will pay you to
Speaker 1: wait for clipper Craft clothes bearing the clipper Craft label. Well,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, shall we return to the story of the
Speaker 1: criminal who stole the blue carbuncle? Most certainly, mister Harris.
Speaker 3: I returned to Holmes's room later that evening to fire
Speaker 3: Homes with mister Henry Baker, the gentleman who lost his
Speaker 3: hat and his Christmas goose, who had appeared in response
Speaker 3: to the advertisement.
Speaker 1: About your bird. Mister Baker, we were compelled to eat it.
Speaker 1: You've eaten my bird. Yes, it would have been of
Speaker 1: no use to anyone had we not done so. I
Speaker 1: presume this other goose upon the sideboard will answer your
Speaker 1: purpose equally.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I believe it will.
Speaker 1: We still have the feathers, the legs, the crop and
Speaker 1: so on of your original bird, if you wish to
Speaker 1: have them.
Speaker 2: Would they be on youth to you, mister Baker, No,
Speaker 2: none whatsoever. You seem hesitant, sir doubtful. I just moved
Speaker 2: by your kinness. Gentlemen, you might well have kept the
Speaker 2: bird and done nothing, but in.
Speaker 4: The tradition of the Christmas spirit, you have provided.
Speaker 2: Me with a joyful surprise.
Speaker 1: Mister Bacon, would you tell me where you've got the
Speaker 1: original bird? I'm somewhat of a foul fancier, and I've
Speaker 1: seldom seen a better grown goose.
Speaker 4: Certainly, mister Holmes, there are a few of us who
Speaker 4: frequent the Alpha.
Speaker 2: Im near the museum.
Speaker 6: He is this year our host of Windy Gets by name,
Speaker 6: instituted a goose club, by which, on consideration of a
Speaker 6: few pennies, every week, we will each to receive a
Speaker 6: bird at Christmas.
Speaker 2: My pennies were paid for. The rest is familiar to
Speaker 2: you now. If you'll pardon me my hat, Oh oh, yes, tis,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: I must dash home to share this wonderful bird with
Speaker 4: my family. You have the humble gratitude, gentlemen, of a
Speaker 4: poor soul whose Christmas you have brightened a small.
Speaker 3: Enough gift, sir, for the greatness of the death. Merry Christmas,
Speaker 3: mister Baker, and a glorious holiday to.
Speaker 2: You, Doctor Watson and mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Grieving mister Baker, he's quite innocent, day Holmes, quite really
Speaker 1: homes you.
Speaker 3: Have not extended greetings to one person. You know that
Speaker 3: the Christmas spirit cannot reach the lofty, ice bound heights
Speaker 3: where you keep yourself at.
Speaker 1: The moment, Watson, A mister Horner stands at the assizes
Speaker 1: charged with the robbery of the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle.
Speaker 1: Mister Horner may serve a long sentence in prison underserved day,
Speaker 1: and the actual.
Speaker 2: Culprit will still be at large. Who placed the.
Speaker 1: Priceless stone in the crop of the bird. We must
Speaker 1: answer that damning question, Watson. We have no time to
Speaker 1: sentimental rubbish. Quickly to the alpha inn.
Speaker 3: This is the landlord of this inn at the bar
Speaker 3: homes a red faced chair from the white apron names Windigot.
Speaker 2: Mister Windigot. What can it be? Two glasses of beer? Fees?
Speaker 2: Two glasses of beer? It is.
Speaker 1: Your beer should be excellent, if it's as good as
Speaker 1: your geese, my deed. Yes, I was speaking only half
Speaker 1: an hour ago to mister Henry Baker. Who's a member
Speaker 1: of your goose club? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, but them's not argues, indeed, than who's other?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I got two dozen of them from a salesman in
Speaker 2: Covent Guard. I know some of those salesmen. Which one
Speaker 2: was it? Well, let me see now his name was?
Speaker 2: His name was Oh, yes, yes, break.
Speaker 1: And Ridge, second Ridge thank you, Tom Come on this
Speaker 1: right you are wait, you haven't drunk up your payments,
Speaker 1: mister Windigott. We've more urgent matters at hand, not.
Speaker 2: Even time for a toaster.
Speaker 7: But jolly is holiday of him all Well, good night,
Speaker 7: ever needs a school.
Speaker 1: Ill advised humor is the eternal earmark of third rich mind.
Speaker 1: Good nightcraft.
Speaker 2: By jove homes even old winded that Scott the spirit
Speaker 2: of the bear. I must say, Holmes, for you to
Speaker 2: regard this beautiful legend.
Speaker 3: Of Sir Nicholas and the one day we may all
Speaker 3: walk this earth with a carefree.
Speaker 2: And childish heart. To regard it as sentimental rubbish. It's
Speaker 2: an excusable hope. To my mind.
Speaker 1: Watson does but one inexcusable act, the failure of a
Speaker 1: human mind to solve a problem, especially a problem in crime.
Speaker 1: And it's such a cab and race the common garden market.
Speaker 1: This salesman, this Breckonridge, he holds a solution to the
Speaker 1: riddle of a stone jewel.
Speaker 2: Don't Harry, Bill Malled help.
Speaker 4: Me put up these shatters right down, Miss Breckenridge.
Speaker 5: You hear those church bells, Bill Milled Right, dear mister Breckonridge,
Speaker 5: it's the sweetest.
Speaker 2: Music a man. Every church builds at Christmas times. You
Speaker 2: know what the bells are saying, what mister Wreckonridge.
Speaker 5: They're saying, you know, business in the store working this night?
Speaker 5: You young bill belongs with the other youngsters around the trees.
Speaker 5: And we missed the Breckenridge. I should be staring at
Speaker 5: the punch bowl with good wife and me dear friends
Speaker 5: up for the Shatter's bold.
Speaker 2: Good even I am, and I'm very happy. You think
Speaker 2: it is too sair Anlody, Yes, so it is bad.
Speaker 2: Jord pliant Watson sold out of geese. I see, I
Speaker 2: could let you have five hundred tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning
Speaker 2: will not do. Surely you may find just one more.
Speaker 3: I was recommended to you by Oh, we were recommended
Speaker 3: by the landlord of the Alpha in.
Speaker 1: Oh. Yes, I see them, a couple of daven fine birds.
Speaker 1: They were too Uh where did you get them?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Mister?
Speaker 2: What are you driving that? Let's have it fright, there's
Speaker 2: straight enough. We should like to know who sold you
Speaker 2: the geese, which who supplied the alpha in by chant.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of no importance. But I don't understand
Speaker 1: why you should be so disturbed over skype.
Speaker 2: Twypho is it?
Speaker 5: You'd be angry if we're as passive as I am
Speaker 5: when I play good money for a good article, let
Speaker 5: you be.
Speaker 2: The end of the business. But it's weird with the geese.
Speaker 2: And who did you tell the geese too? And what
Speaker 2: will you take for the geese? Never in all my
Speaker 2: years at this stall, if.
Speaker 1: I heard such a fact, Well, I have no connection
Speaker 1: with any other people who've been making inquiries, but I'm
Speaker 1: always ready to back my opinion on a matter of
Speaker 1: fouls meaning just what meaning that I have a favorite
Speaker 1: on it that the bird I ate is country bread.
Speaker 1: Why do you say that, Hope, you've lost your fivate?
Speaker 1: It's tan bread, nothing of the kind I say it is,
Speaker 1: And I don't believe it.
Speaker 5: You think you know more about thousand nine you've handled
Speaker 5: them ever since I was on the first. I'll have
Speaker 5: a sovereign on it with you, just to teach you
Speaker 5: not to be obstinate.
Speaker 2: Bring me the box, jam bill, No, I've bet him
Speaker 2: upon this shell es. Yes, here's a big league fine
Speaker 2: lam pine.
Speaker 5: Now there, mister coupsh you if you step over it
Speaker 5: to the lamp very well, and let it be FuMB
Speaker 5: and I'll find the page.
Speaker 2: Eh the spectacles step here we are look at that
Speaker 2: third name. Just lead it out to me.
Speaker 1: Missus Oakshot one hundred and seventeen Brixton Road, egg and
Speaker 1: poaches the fire read the last entry December twenty second,
Speaker 1: twenty four east of seven shillings and sixpence.
Speaker 2: Quite self, and what to say under these sold are
Speaker 2: mister Windigott of the alpha at twelve shillings?
Speaker 1: What are you to say?
Speaker 2: Now? You owe him a sovereign home? And it says
Speaker 2: you want mister recog you well, I didn't do my
Speaker 2: let and you may have the sovereign see it. That's
Speaker 2: Christmas time?
Speaker 1: Oh take come walk from the air about this call
Speaker 1: that comes sickeningly sweet.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Holmes. Well evening, mister Regulage, and a
Speaker 2: merry Christmas walk down this peter bit and they want
Speaker 2: and you can serve puiately about an.
Speaker 3: I should say, which the road home? This Missus Oakshad
Speaker 3: who raises the geese, must know how the blue carbuncle came.
Speaker 2: To be in the bird's crop and got it. Now
Speaker 2: that I've duked Breckinridge by means of that wager, and
Speaker 2: telling me the woman's name. It's the salesman regularly. Who's
Speaker 2: the little fellow he's arguing with? He wasn't at the
Speaker 2: star before?
Speaker 1: Will you come testing me with.
Speaker 2: My mister brick, you'll bring this enough done? What have
Speaker 2: you got to do with it? Then I've either be
Speaker 2: got you no, but but one of them is mine?
Speaker 1: All the same, Well that missus Oakside, this may say
Speaker 1: that the visit of Brixton Road walk and come we'll
Speaker 1: see what's to be made of this slow.
Speaker 2: I've never enough of it. Chas the strangeerway from the
Speaker 2: store when it comes in. Miss stuff. It wasn't one
Speaker 2: moment stup where you are? Who are you? What do
Speaker 2: you want? You'll excuse me, sir, I could not help
Speaker 2: overhearing your conversation with miss Breckinridge. I believe I may
Speaker 2: be of assistance, but who are you? How could you
Speaker 2: know anything about? My name is Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1: It's my business to know what other people don't know,
Speaker 1: and I'm up to John watch.
Speaker 2: You, sir, are endeavoring to trace some geese which were.
Speaker 1: Sold by Missus Oakshott to mister Breckinridge at the store
Speaker 1: down the street. The geese was sold in turn to
Speaker 1: mister Windigot at the outpha Inn and then to mister
Speaker 1: Henry Baker.
Speaker 2: Then you do you know about it? You can help me,
Speaker 2: of course I can. Your name, son, my name is
Speaker 2: John Robinson. No, no, no, the real name. It's always
Speaker 2: awkward doing business with an alias. Well, my real name
Speaker 2: is James Ryder. Precisely so.
Speaker 1: You are head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan where the
Speaker 1: Countess's precious jewry disappeared. Please, mister Holmes, I suggest we
Speaker 1: discussed this case at my residence on Baker Street.
Speaker 2: Ah ah, this is more like it. But it fires
Speaker 2: very cozy, the writer.
Speaker 1: I've invited you here to Baker Street because you want
Speaker 1: to know what became of those geese. I want to
Speaker 1: know desperately. Mistrow, you are concerned, mister rider with one
Speaker 1: bird quite with a black bar across the tail.
Speaker 2: You know about it? Can you tell me where it is?
Speaker 1: It came here here, yes, and it laid an egg
Speaker 1: after it was dead, the prettiest, brightest blue eggs.
Speaker 2: I have it here in my thronge box. Here. It
Speaker 2: is the Countess of Moca's blue carbuncle. Why I'd like
Speaker 2: to explain i'd rab him on. He seems faint, I'll
Speaker 2: help him into this chair.
Speaker 1: Oh we are not a very sturdy or convincing criminal,
Speaker 1: are used to Rider? You've heard, of course, if this
Speaker 1: blue stone, it.
Speaker 2: Was Catherine Cusack who told me about it. Yes, I
Speaker 2: see her, Ladyship's maid.
Speaker 1: You knew this man Horner had a criminal record, that
Speaker 1: it'd be easy to point suspicion toward him. You and
Speaker 1: the lady's maid managed to have Horner the plumber sent
Speaker 1: for After he left, you rifled the jewel case, raised
Speaker 1: the alarm and had him arrested.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes. I never went wrong before, I never will again.
Speaker 7: Don't bring this into court.
Speaker 1: And it's all very well to be contract now, mister Ryder,
Speaker 1: But you thought little enough of poor Horner in the.
Speaker 2: Dock for a crime of which he knew nothing. I'd
Speaker 2: leave the country, mister Holmes. The charge against him will
Speaker 2: break down. You still haven't had.
Speaker 3: An account of how the precious stone got into the
Speaker 3: goose's crop home.
Speaker 1: Yes, Watson, Well, mister Rider, you beg forgiveness, but you
Speaker 1: do not explain very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 7: After i'd taken the stone up, I knew there was
Speaker 7: no place about the hotel where it would be safe.
Speaker 2: Sir, I've a friend, Maudesley by name. He served time
Speaker 2: in Pentonville.
Speaker 7: He knows the ways of thieves, and I counted upon
Speaker 7: Mardesy to help me turn the stone into money. I
Speaker 7: ran to my sister's house, Missus Oakshot on Brixton Road.
Speaker 1: Yes, I presumed that while you're there had occurred to
Speaker 1: you to hide the priceless gem and the crop of
Speaker 1: one of her geese, which were probably waddling in her
Speaker 1: back yard when you arrived.
Speaker 2: Just so, mister Hopes.
Speaker 7: She promised to give me one of the birds for
Speaker 7: the holidays, and I selected one white with a barred tale.
Speaker 2: I forced the jewel down its throat. Then my sister
Speaker 2: came out of the house.
Speaker 7: She told me to select a goose when there was
Speaker 7: great numbers of them in the yard, and I pointed
Speaker 7: to what I thought was the proper.
Speaker 2: Bird, white with a barred tale. I carried the goose
Speaker 2: to Maudesley.
Speaker 1: And when you opened it crop, you'll suddenly realize there
Speaker 1: was more than one goose that was white with a
Speaker 1: barred tail.
Speaker 7: I was frantic, mister Holmes. I discovered the goose had
Speaker 7: been sold to break and ridget cotton garden. I ran
Speaker 7: to its stall. That's where you found me. Now, I
Speaker 7: I'm a friend, did thief, miserable creature Homes I yielded
Speaker 7: to a moment's temptation. Don't turn me into Scotland Yard.
Speaker 7: I'll do whatever you ask.
Speaker 2: I'll make a man somehow, You know, Holmes, If Rider.
Speaker 3: Here doesn't appear in court, the case against Hornor will collapse.
Speaker 3: That's fair enough, isn't it, Holmes? Send Rider to jail now,
Speaker 3: and you may make him a jail bird for life.
Speaker 3: You may be commuting a felony if you save this
Speaker 3: man's soul. Must you turn him over to the yard,
Speaker 3: Will Holmes? What do you say, mister Holmes?
Speaker 2: What do you say? Get out? Mister Rider?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: No more words? Get out?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: God, bless you, sir, God bless you. You you'll astonish me, Homes. Well,
Speaker 2: what thing? This is the season of forgiveness, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 2: Of course it is. But you know, I thought you'd
Speaker 2: quite forgotten that, Holmes. I thought you'd know use at all?
Speaker 2: For Christmas? I thought Landlord Windigot was quite right in
Speaker 2: calling you Ebenezer screwed. You can know Scooge got a
Speaker 2: change of heart. Didn't need this, so he did so
Speaker 2: he did. Well, shall we drink to it?
Speaker 3: Shall we drink to John Ryder, Landlord Windigate, Breckinridge, the Shopkeeper,
Speaker 3: and little Bill to them, and with all.
Speaker 1: My heart to you homes Merry Christmas, I join you
Speaker 1: in the coast. Bidea Watson, very many Christmas. Indeed, well,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, The Adventure of the Blue Carbucker was a
Speaker 1: very charming.
Speaker 2: And appropriate story.
Speaker 1: I imagine that next week, though, we returned to the bloody,
Speaker 1: the grotesque, the great struggle between Holmes and the most
Speaker 1: brilliant criminals at the time.
Speaker 2: We do, mister Harris.
Speaker 3: Next week's adventure is entitled The Adventure of the Malicious Moor,
Speaker 3: which strangely resembles the story of Shakespeare's othellow.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a very attractive prospect, doctor Watson, and Doctor
Speaker 1: as most of the friends of Sherlock Holmes know, an
Speaker 1: internationally famous society has been founded called the Baker's Street Irregulars,
Speaker 1: a society of depties to Holmes and to his adventures.
Speaker 1: And here in New York there is a chapter known
Speaker 1: as the Diogenes Club, after the great Greek philosopher who
Speaker 1: searched the earth for an honest man carrying a legendary lantern.
Speaker 1: Now each year the Diogenes Club, whose members include many
Speaker 1: of the most distinguished personalities in the current American scene,
Speaker 1: makes special awards for outstanding achievements. On Wednesday, December eighth
Speaker 1: of this year, the very first recipient of this award,
Speaker 1: a Diogenes's Lantern was President Harry S.
Speaker 2: Truman.
Speaker 1: The lantern was presented to our President by mister Elmer
Speaker 1: Davis and by mister Christopher Morley. In presenting an Elmer
Speaker 1: Davis said that President Truman received it for shedding light
Speaker 1: on the political situation.
Speaker 2: When the experts were in the dark.
Speaker 1: Now, in the absence of doctor Charles Goodman, President of
Speaker 1: the Diogones Club, I have been delegated to announce the
Speaker 1: latest award of the Diogonies Lantern. Following the award to
Speaker 1: President Truman, the makers of Clippercraft Clothes and all of
Speaker 1: us associated with the production of the Adventures of Sherlock
Speaker 1: Holmes for Radio are proud to announce the award of
Speaker 1: a Theogony's Lantern for his brilliant portrayal of Homes on
Speaker 1: the air, to the eminent actor who plays the role
Speaker 1: on this program, the first citizen to receive the award
Speaker 1: after President Truman, mister John Stanley, Ladies and gentlemen, mister Stanley,
Speaker 1: thank you, mister Harris for representing doctor Goodman and his associates.
Speaker 1: It goes without saying that I am deeply honored to
Speaker 1: receive its second Diogenes Lantern and humble that I should
Speaker 1: be so. Single, Doctor, I may say that I'm doubly
Speaker 1: humble in my approach to the portrayal of the great
Speaker 1: Detective Sherlocke Homes.
Speaker 2: Again, thank you very much. A Happy New Year.
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