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Speaker 1: to Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared
Speaker 1: with his old friend that Master Detective Sherlock Holmes. Well,
Speaker 1: right about now you're probably taking a little breather in
Speaker 1: your last minute rush to get everything ready for the
Speaker 1: big day tomorrow. Children have to be put to bed
Speaker 1: to wait for Santa Claus, and is the tree waiting
Speaker 1: to be decorated? And four a million and one things
Speaker 1: which must be done before morning. I sure hope you
Speaker 1: got all your Christmas shopping done. It's pretty hectic rushing
Speaker 1: off at the last minute to take care of Uncle
Speaker 1: Charlie or Aunt Bertha, cousin Sam. But if you must
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Speaker 1: some help. And now I'm sure, good friend doctor Watson's
Speaker 1: waiting for us, So let's go and join.
Speaker 2: It in it.
Speaker 3: Oh there you are, say doctor.
Speaker 1: I can see you're gonna have yourself quite a Christmas
Speaker 1: big tree in the corner with colored lights on it.
Speaker 1: Where'd you get those table covered with presents? You must
Speaker 1: be mighty popular.
Speaker 4: For me, my boy.
Speaker 3: You see, I'm heaving a Christmas body tomorrow for my
Speaker 3: housekeeper's little nieces.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm going to dress up a clause for him.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you look very convincing in the park.
Speaker 1: By the way, doctor, I brought you a little present.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll like it. But I got one for
Speaker 3: you too years or you mustn't open it until tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Here, I'm a boy.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, doctor, And now has about tonight's story.
Speaker 1: Last week you told us you had chosen an adventure
Speaker 1: with a lot of Christmasy apples.
Speaker 3: Yes, my story begins on another Christmas Eve, many many
Speaker 3: years ago, the exact in eighteen hundred and eighty six,
Speaker 3: time the adventure occurred, I must confess I didn't quite.
Speaker 4: Understand what was going on myself.
Speaker 3: In fact, I never did quite make head of tails
Speaker 3: of it until till Holmes took pity on me later
Speaker 3: and explain the whole thing. But I shan't try to
Speaker 3: confuse you, mister Bartel. I'll tell you the story exactly
Speaker 3: that happened, write you aire.
Speaker 2: Doctor.
Speaker 3: Let's go very well. On that Christmas Eve in eighty six,
Speaker 3: I was standing in our Baker Street rooms, dressed in
Speaker 3: the costume Santa Clause Holmes is long, thin fingers pressed together,
Speaker 3: lay back in an arm chair and daze let me
Speaker 3: while our housekeeper, missus Hudson stood by the door.
Speaker 5: And you make a grand Santa Clause.
Speaker 4: Uncomfortable. How does it look?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: You look just like the old man on the Christmas cards.
Speaker 2: Doctor, it really becomes you, Jerry twinkle of the eyes,
Speaker 2: the ready complexion and the appropriate girths A shame we
Speaker 2: can't obtain some snow and a sleigh and reindeer for you. However,
Speaker 2: I'm sureing Missus Hudson's nieces will be very much impressed.
Speaker 5: The will that, sir, And it's very kind of you
Speaker 5: doctor to offer to come over to that house with
Speaker 5: me father in the hospital and my sister at his bedside.
Speaker 5: It would have been a very miserable Christmas without enjoy myself.
Speaker 4: But I think I'll take this pud of for we
Speaker 4: get there. That's it? Are you ready to leave, missus Hudson?
Speaker 5: I am, sir. Will I get a cab?
Speaker 4: How far do we have to go?
Speaker 5: Oh, Lexington Gardens number twenty eight. It's just off the
Speaker 5: Edgeway Road far.
Speaker 4: But bearing in mind my costume, I sters we'd better
Speaker 4: take a cab.
Speaker 5: Hi, sir, I'll get one.
Speaker 4: Holmes.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do with yourself? I hate
Speaker 3: leaving you alone on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 2: Oh no worry, old Chap. I shall spend a profitable
Speaker 2: evening writing on my new monograph what just went about?
Speaker 2: An analysis of teeth marks on pipe stems and with
Speaker 2: particular regard to indicated character.
Speaker 4: Which is very how exciting well I must be going.
Speaker 2: Don't forget your sack of presents over on. When you
Speaker 2: come to distribute them, you will find the diet at
Speaker 2: the liberty of adding a few trinkets on my own behalf.
Speaker 3: That's very thoughtful of your excuse me, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: But there's a gentleman to see you, says he's an
Speaker 5: old friend of yours. Here's his cab sat.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, it's all wady. Come splendid ask him
Speaker 2: to come up with bus, miss Hudson, and I hope
Speaker 2: you Our party is a great success. Missus Hudson.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. Are you sure you don't want me
Speaker 5: to stay now that you have a visitor?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, indeed no, Missus Hudson. I can
Speaker 2: show the gentleman out myself. You go off in a
Speaker 2: good time, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: I wonder what lord would you want? Pepsize should stay?
Speaker 2: Please, my dear fellow, certainly not, you know you far
Speaker 2: more important work do where he can probably wants his
Speaker 2: revenge at chess or something equally innocuous. Off with you,
Speaker 2: all right, my dear felone, and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4: Just to say I wish you were coming with me.
Speaker 2: I'll I'll see you later there, come on up when
Speaker 2: he come.
Speaker 6: Hello, evening Watson. Do you make a very convincing sand
Speaker 6: because are you leaving?
Speaker 4: Good night? Then?
Speaker 2: How are you home all alone on Christmas eve? Eh? Yes? Well,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you came over to see me. What's it
Speaker 2: be an evening of chess? Or have you won earth
Speaker 2: some recent treasure of meat or pottery that we can
Speaker 2: discuss neither homes. I'll come to you in your professional capacity.
Speaker 2: I need help, Come now, will it come? Don't tell
Speaker 2: me that after all these years of quiet friendship, you're
Speaker 2: going to become a client. And I'm afraid their homes.
Speaker 6: Though, I doubt if my problem will problem will interest
Speaker 6: you very much. It's hardly up to your rather colorful standards.
Speaker 2: Careful us a girl. Thanks now, my dear Willigham. What
Speaker 2: your trouble?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: When I decided this year to have a little Christmas
Speaker 6: party at my townhouse.
Speaker 2: I'm quite comfortably office. You know only to call me
Speaker 2: that I have several relatives and friends who are not
Speaker 2: as well off. I'm having a party for them tonight,
Speaker 2: homes and I hope you'd attend it disguised as Santa Claus,
Speaker 2: My dear fellow. I've adopted many of these guys as
Speaker 2: my time that Father Christmas has never been one of them.
Speaker 2: Why do you want me to attend your party and disguise?
Speaker 2: In any case? You ashamed if your friendship were a
Speaker 2: private detective, or do you consider my features more acceptable
Speaker 2: when buried beneath the depths of a we'd be Oh,
Speaker 2: my dear homes to take me seriously. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3: I assure your.
Speaker 2: Caution not a caution. Aren't you you want me to
Speaker 2: attend your party in disguise? Why I'm giving you some.
Speaker 6: Very valuable presents A diamond and onyx cuff links in
Speaker 6: platinum and ruby earrings.
Speaker 2: And and such like. And I've wrapped each of the
Speaker 2: presents in banknotes.
Speaker 6: Me.
Speaker 2: Well, aren't these presents now in a sack in charge
Speaker 2: of my butler?
Speaker 6: I am was going to dress up a Santa Clause
Speaker 6: and give him out myself until I got the warning letter.
Speaker 2: That's why I have come to you. Warning letter. Eh, yes,
Speaker 2: I received it by this evening's post. Listen to this,
Speaker 2: my dear lord WHITTICKMB. Your generosity with Christmas presents borders
Speaker 2: on ostentation. We do not approve either. We receive five
Speaker 2: thousand pounds in sovereigns at Post Restaurant Box three seventy
Speaker 2: nine by six o'clock on Christmas Eve or I'm afraid
Speaker 2: a Christmas party will be conspicuous by its absence of
Speaker 2: presents here thanks m plain paper one from a penny notebook.
Speaker 2: The writing is obviously disguised quite George, Yes, Whittikeam, I
Speaker 2: accept the case. I'll come with you to your party
Speaker 2: at once, and furthermore, I shall follow your suggestion regarding
Speaker 2: the disguise dressed as Santa Claus, and I shall be
Speaker 2: less likely to attract suspicion and delighted homes. But what
Speaker 2: made you decide so suddenly? This writing, my dear fellow,
Speaker 2: this writing, Oh, it's in a false hand. I'd know
Speaker 2: that characteristic m in my dear whittigm I've seen it
Speaker 2: too often at the beginning of the signature Mariatti Mariotti Whoucci, Oh,
Speaker 2: one of the cleverest and most unscrupulous criminals in England. Whdtigam.
Speaker 2: There's no time to be last. It slipped me see
Speaker 2: now six thirty half an hour on the deadline given
Speaker 2: you in this letter, Wimascuria house once.
Speaker 5: This is as far as the cab can take us,
Speaker 5: Doctor keb.
Speaker 4: It there's five qay Christmas.
Speaker 5: Pleasureody Christmas to you said you wanted to get into
Speaker 5: the house through the back way so that you could
Speaker 5: surprise the.
Speaker 4: Children come down the kitchen chimney.
Speaker 5: Oh, you can get to the back of the house.
Speaker 5: But going up the alley here, I'll go in the
Speaker 5: front door, spend which is the house number twenty eight.
Speaker 5: It's the third one down the alley. Doctor, I'll have
Speaker 5: the back window opening no time, and you can slip
Speaker 5: in without any of the beard and see.
Speaker 3: Very well, gloomy little street. That where's the music coming from?
Speaker 5: Oh it's from that temple across the street, doctor, The
Speaker 5: Disciples of the Octagonal Square they call themselves.
Speaker 4: What on earth I suppose that means.
Speaker 5: Oh, some new fangled colt heathens most likely.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, I'm not the onlyess to close abroad tonight.
Speaker 3: Look at that far across the street over there.
Speaker 5: Oh, today's just like yourself adopted and carry in a
Speaker 5: sack too. He's running up the steps to the temple.
Speaker 3: It's god he he slipped on the eyes.
Speaker 5: How he was here him adopted trip for yourself.
Speaker 4: Give me your hand, Thank you, sir, felly of me,
Speaker 4: wasn't it close to help me? Tell you know?
Speaker 3: You come racious?
Speaker 5: Doctor, I told you to be careful.
Speaker 2: Now you fall.
Speaker 3: Into it's just confounded red coat of on it it
Speaker 3: tripped me up?
Speaker 5: Did you have yourself?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: I think? How about you?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm all right, thanks felly of me to run,
Speaker 2: wasn't it.
Speaker 4: Here's your sex?
Speaker 2: Thank you, good night.
Speaker 4: And marry Christmas. Who knows who.
Speaker 3: Temple must be? The tagonal square?
Speaker 5: You're sure you know how to doctor?
Speaker 4: No course, give me my sex? Thank you.
Speaker 3: Your sister's house is the third one down the alleyway, Sir.
Speaker 5: I'll harry you up in the back window.
Speaker 3: So I'll be waiting for you, missus Hudson. Rather fun
Speaker 3: for the shame homes, isn't with us?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Probably happier having a good game of chess with Lord willikem.
Speaker 2: This is my house, Homes number thirty nine at an
Speaker 2: I'm conson square eh and dear Old Watson is just
Speaker 2: around the corner in Lexington Gardens and hasn't any idea
Speaker 2: that I've left Baker Spears here you are, Caddy, Thank
Speaker 2: you sir. Have merry Christmas, sir, Uh huh, there's no
Speaker 2: man Carol singers. Yes, we'll probably have our fill of
Speaker 2: them before this evening's over.
Speaker 6: Good evening, Milde.
Speaker 3: Have have the guests arrived?
Speaker 6: Ha read most of them are they're in the library.
Speaker 6: You brought another Santa Claus with you.
Speaker 2: I see, Milord, another Santa Claus. What do you mean?
Speaker 6: The gentleman arrived three quarters of an hour ago, sir,
Speaker 6: dressed to Santa Claus. I took him to your study
Speaker 6: in the Lord and showed him the sack present unfounded.
Speaker 2: He's got here be for us? Where's this study in
Speaker 2: this way?
Speaker 6: I hope I didn't do gong, Milord, who told me
Speaker 6: that a gentleman dressed to Santa Claus would be coming here?
Speaker 6: Dear me, the gentleman appears to have gone.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the sack containing the presence with him.
Speaker 6: But he can't have left the house, MILORDA. I've been
Speaker 6: watching the front door.
Speaker 2: Yes, and while you were doing that, he slipped down
Speaker 2: through the window. Here. The catch is, I'm done. I'm
Speaker 2: grave describe this man. I can't tell you much about
Speaker 2: his appearance. I'm afraid, sir. He was dressed to Santa Claus,
Speaker 2: just like yourself. But I didn't notice one thing about him, sir, Oh,
Speaker 2: what was that? He lists just quite pronounced? Of course,
Speaker 2: Lou the Lisper on Earth is Lu the Lisper, one
Speaker 2: of Mariati's most trusted accomplisses. Fortunately, though I've had news
Speaker 2: of him later through my underworld grapevine. You you know
Speaker 2: where he lives. He's reputed him have some connections with
Speaker 2: a new cut that calls themselves the Disciples of the
Speaker 2: Octagonal Square. The headquarters are just around the corner from here.
Speaker 2: Let's go there, of course. And yes, sir, get a
Speaker 2: message to Scotland Yard as fast as you can. Ask
Speaker 2: for inspectless child until him join me at the Temple
Speaker 2: of the Octagonal Square in Lexman Gardens as soon as possible.
Speaker 5: For the children are awfully excited.
Speaker 3: Doctor. I told them you just came township the bed
Speaker 3: on and then I'll.
Speaker 4: Go into them.
Speaker 5: Will I announce you do your no children, clients, Santa
Speaker 5: Claus is coming to see it, and he's brought your
Speaker 5: own pleasance. Hello, Hello, Lanny Jasey.
Speaker 6: Did you bring me a pregnant.
Speaker 3: Say I look at second minute they.
Speaker 5: Call me Bertie.
Speaker 2: Did you come down at chilly Yes, that you had
Speaker 2: a time doing it.
Speaker 5: You're so fast. Santa Claus won't.
Speaker 2: Give you your present?
Speaker 4: And what's your name?
Speaker 3: Little man?
Speaker 7: My?
Speaker 5: Though I've got a cold, you have, will children.
Speaker 3: Gather around men I'll see what present I got for you?
Speaker 3: The first present is I'll be right, it says for
Speaker 3: her grace, the doctor Duchess of.
Speaker 5: Bul Do you suppose mister Holmes has been playing a
Speaker 5: practical joke? And you don't.
Speaker 3: Do you suppose that I can't see the but he
Speaker 3: did say that he'd added a few trinkets of his own.
Speaker 3: I want my present, then, supposing you take the sells it?
Speaker 3: Thank you? And this one is mark for the reverence
Speaker 3: off for Carter. What Holmes is up to?
Speaker 4: Here your baty saying? And this is for you, Donad,
Speaker 4: because you've been a good little boy.
Speaker 5: It's a very big is it. I wanted the dog,
Speaker 5: the dog.
Speaker 4: Because before bring you a dog next year?
Speaker 3: Larnad doctor watching?
Speaker 5: Yes, look at the rapping in these presents or the
Speaker 5: twenty five notes cut?
Speaker 4: Oh look what I can let me see? Why tough things?
Speaker 4: And unless I very much was.
Speaker 5: Taken heart having let me.
Speaker 4: See, gracious, I swear that these are tasment roobes.
Speaker 3: What in thunder's going on?
Speaker 5: I'm wand maing f give me that?
Speaker 3: Mind you well? Here here you are here wat who
Speaker 3: do you suppose us? After you? I do know missus hutsonps.
Speaker 3: My toys are still at the bottom of the sack.
Speaker 3: I can't understand it. I was homes of here instead
Speaker 3: of using in front of our far in Baker Street.
Speaker 3: Where are you homes.
Speaker 2: Here with the bed? This is the only room in
Speaker 2: the temple that gives any signs I been living. My
Speaker 2: bird has been here. But I'm afraid bone inspect less
Speaker 2: strip will get Here's track a match, Wally wim right,
Speaker 2: here's a candle on the table, just as I feared.
Speaker 2: Look on the bed, a red coat and a beard. Yes,
Speaker 2: Lul the lispers discardage is disgust and gone, and with him.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid you are valuable. Wait a minute, here's a
Speaker 2: sack lying on the floor. Oh no, this isn't mine.
Speaker 2: Look what's in it? A toy dog, large box of chocolates.
Speaker 2: Little girls do worry thunder, but this is watson sack.
Speaker 2: But how on earth could Lu the Lisper have got
Speaker 2: hold of it? Somewhere? Somehow he Watson must have made
Speaker 2: an accidental change, and Lul the Lisper has no doubt
Speaker 2: trying to track Wat's and downe At this very moment,
Speaker 2: you just worth fast Wickham, my friend's wife and those
Speaker 2: are Missus Hudson and our relatives won't be worth I
Speaker 2: Thinker's damn.
Speaker 1: Doctor, you can't break your story there.
Speaker 3: But before I go on, I thought we'd never lost
Speaker 3: Port just to the freshness up.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's that's something different. Of course, instead of
Speaker 1: talking about Port as I something still. It'll be my
Speaker 1: drink some change.
Speaker 3: Christmas the same to you.
Speaker 2: And now what happened next?
Speaker 3: Doctor?
Speaker 1: We left you at the children's Christmas party and Sherlock
Speaker 1: Holmes and Lord Weddick around the corner at the Temple
Speaker 1: of the Octagonal Square.
Speaker 3: Yes, though at the time, of course, I had no
Speaker 3: idea what was going on there. I was cheerfully handing
Speaker 3: out gifts worth will not at King's at least to
Speaker 3: baron its ransoms outside the Temple of the Octagonal Square
Speaker 3: homes Lord Wickham were talking to inspect.
Speaker 7: Yes, it seems to me, Lord Whittigam, you'd have been
Speaker 7: wiser to get in touch with Scotland Yard when you
Speaker 7: first got the warning note if we could have nabbed
Speaker 7: him when he came to your house and pinch the
Speaker 7: sack of presence.
Speaker 2: Starb is no time for post botins. We've got to
Speaker 2: reach Lou the Lisp before he finds Dr Watson. I
Speaker 2: suppose he can do that at homes. It wouldn't be difficult.
Speaker 2: Lu the Lisper is nearly as clever as his master,
Speaker 2: professor Bodaty. The chances now that you were followed when
Speaker 2: you came to bigg the Street tonight Wittigham, and pequally
Speaker 2: likely that Watson and missus Hudson were followed as they
Speaker 2: left it. Mariati Is seldom leaves anything to pants. Well
Speaker 2: where did doctor Watson go and get Lexington Gardens? It's
Speaker 2: just on the corner from here. Work in this goo
Speaker 2: there it once might not quarry away? No, no, no, no, strive.
Speaker 2: We must use a little subtle game, now, lu the
Speaker 2: Lisper wishes to recover that sack of presence from Watson.
Speaker 2: How would he invade the party with the least possible
Speaker 2: trouble by dressing up a center close again? Oh no,
Speaker 2: I think he's over played that role for one evening. Well,
Speaker 2: then I would he try to get in Miss Jones?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Come now, as drive, A group of people can enter
Speaker 2: any house on Christmas Eve about invitation without creating suspicion, Carol,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be all surprised. If at this moment Ruther
Speaker 2: Lispur and some of his gang are singing carols outside
Speaker 2: twenty eight Lexington Gardens, then what are we going to do?
Speaker 2: Former rival cardl Society? How many of them men to
Speaker 2: bring with you?
Speaker 7: Three sergeant and two constable wearing great coats? Yes, misses
Speaker 7: the boy they.
Speaker 2: Can hide their helmets and pretend to be singers. Come on,
Speaker 2: let's go over there, and while we're walking we'll rehearse
Speaker 2: our carols. He must appear reasonably convincing. Sander leastart sanerat.
Speaker 5: You back, said class. No, no, you mustn't begun to
Speaker 5: close to childson hop on becoming signing for.
Speaker 4: Of course they can ask them to come in. Missus Hudson, come.
Speaker 5: And let me get you back to Oh no, no,
Speaker 5: take it, see your reindeer, saying.
Speaker 4: To see my reindeer stop on the roof, I time
Speaker 4: not to see him. No, no, no, you must do that.
Speaker 4: They're asleep. Food. Here are the carol singers. If you
Speaker 4: get children, that's it.
Speaker 3: Good evening, gentlemen, Good evening, and marry Chrisma. Would you
Speaker 3: like to sing some carols for the children after that?
Speaker 3: I'm sure you'd like to drop of the some of
Speaker 3: the women, but thank you, sir, we chair like that.
Speaker 4: Let you before somewhere my month.
Speaker 2: Oh there, I'm sure you haven't.
Speaker 4: Come on man, let's sing.
Speaker 2: Good King went for it.
Speaker 3: God l.
Speaker 2: Well, here we are outside the ursemist room. Now listen,
Speaker 2: uh huh Lugla Lisper and these men are already there.
Speaker 2: Are we going to eat at home moment? Amen, you
Speaker 2: will have your truncheons handy, Yes, miss Drones, we're ready, splendid.
Speaker 2: Now remember when we're inside and I yelled Christmas at
Speaker 2: the top of my voice. You bring out your truncheons
Speaker 2: and get Luga Lisper and his gang out of there
Speaker 2: as quickly as possible. Don't arrest them until you get
Speaker 2: them outside again. Astrida, I don't want to fight, mature.
Speaker 3: Write your arms, Drones, we're ready.
Speaker 2: Just give us the word and we'll go in and keep.
Speaker 4: Oh that was a very nice thing. And now how
Speaker 4: about some of the womb.
Speaker 2: You'll that won't be necessary, doctor Watson, say to the door, Sammy,
Speaker 2: Now all of you stay right where you are.
Speaker 4: Who you what if it you're up to?
Speaker 2: Please don't be difficult, doctor. All I want is the
Speaker 2: jewel out of my fact that you saw from me tonight?
Speaker 2: Do you try and stop me? I sha't have to
Speaker 2: hurt you.
Speaker 5: Why do you talk so funny? You got a cold
Speaker 5: like me?
Speaker 2: Shut up now?
Speaker 4: Doctor? Where are the jewels?
Speaker 2: O Christ?
Speaker 3: There are some more carol fingers outside a lot time
Speaker 3: you got a way?
Speaker 2: No better let them come in. If we don't, they
Speaker 2: might get suspicious. Person, that's what you're up to.
Speaker 3: I don't know tricks.
Speaker 5: Doctor.
Speaker 2: If you try and give an alarm, myself has.
Speaker 3: To get rough with you or anyone about that. But
Speaker 3: just remember that there are children present.
Speaker 4: You're here for you.
Speaker 3: Right you say we all join.
Speaker 4: An old Carol for the nippers?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: What what do you want to think of? The old
Speaker 4: angels sing?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: All right? Come on man, let's sing a.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 5: What's happening?
Speaker 4: We're all going away?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll explain it to you later on chat leribe.
Speaker 2: I take them to Scotland Yard and prefer charges. I'll
Speaker 2: be over in a little wound give evidence.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: Too bad we didn't catch Professor Moriarty too well.
Speaker 2: At least we have some of his cohorts. Sound see
Speaker 2: you later. Listen, I'll showing you what was going on here?
Speaker 2: Is Moriarty mixed up in this business? Yes, Watson, Now
Speaker 2: I'll tell you all about it as soon as I've
Speaker 2: straightened this thing out. Wickham.
Speaker 3: Yes, home.
Speaker 2: The twenty pound notes that you used as wrapping for
Speaker 2: your gifts seemed to been scapital of the house. Do
Speaker 2: you want me to recover them too?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: From what you've told me of the children, I think
Speaker 1: their parents produce the money much more profitable than my relatives.
Speaker 2: In any case, I can replace it a very generous
Speaker 2: Christmas gift. Well, children, did you enjoy the little game
Speaker 2: we staged for you?
Speaker 1: It was enough?
Speaker 5: But yes, I really died laughing when they stared hid it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you enjoyed the children, and now I want
Speaker 2: you to show me the presence you received. Oh, they
Speaker 2: were a part of the game too. A nice little
Speaker 2: girl like you just wants me hearings, Elsie. Here's a
Speaker 2: beautiful doll for you. And what did you get, my
Speaker 2: little man?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Tough flinks, good gracious? Who wants puff links?
Speaker 4: And you can have a clockwork train?
Speaker 2: Do you want to exchange? Pray?
Speaker 5: Lord of a Duck wanted the door?
Speaker 4: There's one for you. A nice, nice.
Speaker 2: Julie has a nice big box of chocolates too.
Speaker 3: You can all shove one night as much.
Speaker 5: Mon, since Granny got her fingers stuck in.
Speaker 3: A puggle, I still don't understand what's going on home.
Speaker 3: I must say this says all your marks.
Speaker 2: A happy Christmas, missus Hudsons. The turkey coming up a
Speaker 2: little brady in a few minutes, splendid. And while we're waiting,
Speaker 2: perhaps the children will oblige Chris, we haven't heard Joe,
Speaker 2: Bob and.
Speaker 4: I know what you mean. Christmas Carol. That really sounds convincing.
Speaker 1: How about it, children, I'll right come on, el, come on,
Speaker 1: lionel god well, doctor, that was really a twelfth swell
Speaker 1: story on a Christmas Eve like this? Do you have
Speaker 1: a wish you were back in Baker Street celebrating Christmas?
Speaker 3: There times? Yes, But said mister Bartell, I'm very happy
Speaker 3: right here in my little home. They're on the tables
Speaker 3: of pure little Christmas tree. There's a fine fire in
Speaker 3: my fireplace, my two dogs, Monty and Willia.
Speaker 4: A sleeping peace at my feet.
Speaker 3: And best of it all, I've got the love of
Speaker 3: every child in the neighborhood. Yes, I got a great
Speaker 3: deal this Christmas Eve that's to be thankful for. And
Speaker 3: what were the troubles of the world on their way
Speaker 3: to being settled? It looks as if this is the
Speaker 3: brightest Christmas that I've ever had.
Speaker 1: Well, that's how I feel about it, too, Doctor.
Speaker 3: I hope that all our friends listening in are just
Speaker 3: as happy as Christmas Eve as we are. And speaking
Speaker 3: not only for myself, but I know for all of
Speaker 3: us and for the Petrick family too, we wish every
Speaker 3: one of you a happy Christmas from the bottom of
Speaker 3: our hearts. God rest you merry gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor, it's the next Monday's New Year's Eve?
Speaker 3: What story do you plan to tell us?
Speaker 4: One that I think.
Speaker 3: Extremely appropriate, mister Bartell. It takes place in the Scottish
Speaker 3: castle near Edinburgh on a New Year's Eve in nineteen
Speaker 3: hundred and concerns a parent, lovers and elderly Barnett and
Speaker 3: a strange iron box that proved to be more than.
Speaker 4: Worth its weight in gold.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Speaker 1: Boucher and was suggested by an incident and the Sir
Speaker 1: Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
Speaker 1: Music is by Dean Fossman. Mister Rathbourne appears through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayor and mister Bruce through the
Speaker 1: courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
Speaker 1: the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco,
Speaker 1: California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
Speaker 1: same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studios.
Speaker 1: This is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie
Speaker 1: family for a solid hour of exciting mystery. Mammas, listen
Speaker 1: every Monday on most of these same stations at eight
Speaker 1: o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes.
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