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Speaker 1: are again on our usual visit to doctor Watson. He's
Speaker 1: waiting for us in his study, a cheerful blaze crackling
Speaker 1: on the heart.
Speaker 2: Very leave to seal mister manny. Hasn't the will of
Speaker 2: been atrocious today?
Speaker 3: I was beginning to wonder if you'd be able to
Speaker 3: get here tonight through all this pug Yes, it certainly
Speaker 3: is what you Londoners call a regular pea souper. Indeed,
Speaker 3: it reminds me of the adventure of the missing submarine Plans,
Speaker 3: the case it was sold in the underground, underground what
Speaker 3: you Americans call it a subway.
Speaker 1: Yes, but what has a solution in a subway got
Speaker 1: to do with a foggy night?
Speaker 3: Well, you see, the affair started in weather exactly likeness.
Speaker 3: It was a third week in November the year eighteen
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety five to be exacted. On Monday, a
Speaker 3: dense yellow fog had settled down upon London. On Thursday,
Speaker 3: it was still there, thickier and murkier than ever. At first,
Speaker 3: Homes had turned his nervous energy to cross indexing.
Speaker 2: His huge reference books. But when after.
Speaker 3: Pushing our breakfast chairs back for the for the fourth morning,
Speaker 3: we saw the greasy brown swell still drifting fast the windows,
Speaker 3: Homes his patient snapped, Homes, if you must pace around
Speaker 3: in circles, I wish you change directions now, and then you'll.
Speaker 2: Make him a dizzy.
Speaker 4: It's inexcusable. What's an inexcusable, No initiative, no imagination, nothing
Speaker 4: ever gets done.
Speaker 3: If you're alluding to the inactivity in this last session
Speaker 3: of parliament, My dear, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not speaking of our lawmakers, Watson, but of our law breakers.
Speaker 1: A London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Makes you
Speaker 1: well look out of the window, ideal weather for committing
Speaker 1: a crime. The criminal answers, and his intended victim practically unseen.
Speaker 4: He pounces and disappears into thin air.
Speaker 3: There have been numerous pettiferably.
Speaker 1: Petty fis, pickpockets, ragga muffins. What's the country coming to now?
Speaker 1: If I were a criminal, Watson.
Speaker 2: I for one, would move to America.
Speaker 5: Oh, hello, hello, missus.
Speaker 4: Hudson's not getting excited? What's up? I wonder?
Speaker 2: Yes, well, thank you?
Speaker 3: Oh what's it, sir?
Speaker 1: I'll wait until I open it, can't you?
Speaker 2: Ah, dear me?
Speaker 1: What next?
Speaker 5: Most unusual?
Speaker 4: Watson?
Speaker 5: Most unusual?
Speaker 2: What's most unusual? Watson? What's it?
Speaker 1: Sir? Oh?
Speaker 4: It's from my brother Micraft.
Speaker 5: You remember him. He helped us solve the case of
Speaker 5: the Greek interpreter.
Speaker 4: He's coming here?
Speaker 2: Why not? What's so phenomenable?
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: Indeed, it's as startling as it would be to me
Speaker 1: the tramcar coming down the country lane. Yes, yes, now
Speaker 1: I come to think of it, Mike Crofty is rather
Speaker 1: like a tramcar.
Speaker 4: His rails lead from his pell Mell Lodgings to the
Speaker 4: Diogenes Club in Whitehall.
Speaker 5: That's his circle.
Speaker 4: I wonder what a people kind of derailed him?
Speaker 2: Doesn't the telegram explain?
Speaker 1: It says, UH must see you about Kadaggon West coming
Speaker 1: at once good.
Speaker 3: Dagon West good Dagon. Why that's the young Chapel's farm.
Speaker 3: Dead in the underground on Tuesday morning. I remember reading about.
Speaker 2: It in the papers.
Speaker 3: Oh, the man had apparently fallen out of the train
Speaker 3: and killed himself. He hadn't been robbed, and there was
Speaker 3: no reason to suspect violence. Quite an uninteresting case, if
Speaker 3: I remember Grant.
Speaker 4: Yet it's serious enough to cause Micraft to orfer his habits. No,
Speaker 4: what's this? Must be an extraordinary event?
Speaker 1: And you recall any other facts about the affair?
Speaker 3: Yes, I come to think that there was one unusual
Speaker 3: bit about came out.
Speaker 2: Of the inquest.
Speaker 3: They were unable to ascertain at what point he entered
Speaker 3: the train because ticket was missing.
Speaker 1: Strange, but articles were found on the body two pounds fifteen.
Speaker 2: I believe it was a check book. And oh yes, yes,
Speaker 2: there's too dress circle tickets for the Woolage theater.
Speaker 1: The David that evening hereter tickets say, and it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 1: A man doesn't procure thirty theatre tickets for.
Speaker 4: The evening on which he intends to end his life.
Speaker 4: Anything else?
Speaker 2: A small packet of technical papers?
Speaker 1: Technical papers? What kind of technical papers?
Speaker 2: Who knew any newspapers?
Speaker 4: And said as serious as that? What did the young
Speaker 4: men do?
Speaker 1: Where was employed? He was a clerk at Woollajoser government employed.
Speaker 1: There we have it, Watson, British Government, Woolich Arsenal, technical papers.
Speaker 4: That's why Mycroft is involved in this affair.
Speaker 1: I don't understand, No, I suppose not, Watson. Have I
Speaker 1: ever told you what Mycroft is?
Speaker 2: Your brother? Of course?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, Watson, do you have to be so dense?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what he does.
Speaker 2: I seem to have some vague recollection that you once
Speaker 2: told me that he'd held some small office under the
Speaker 2: British government.
Speaker 4: It would be more accurate to say, in.
Speaker 5: A way that he is the British government.
Speaker 4: What his position is unique he made it for himself.
Speaker 2: Is the type.
Speaker 1: He is the most orderly brain of any man alive,
Speaker 1: with a great capacity for storing facts and giving them
Speaker 1: the proper interpretation. The conclusions of every government department have
Speaker 1: passed on to him. He's the central exchange, the clearing house.
Speaker 1: Again and again his word has decided the national policy.
Speaker 1: He thinks of nothing else. Nothing else can lure him
Speaker 1: from his contemplations. See if he's coming here, Yes, Jupiter
Speaker 1: is descending on us today.
Speaker 2: What on earth happen?
Speaker 4: And Watson? That sounds suspiciously like a bad pun Ah,
Speaker 4: here he is, if I'm not mistaken to speak for himself.
Speaker 4: Come in, Come in, hello, my craft, what's up?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 5: You look plastered?
Speaker 1: Business Sherrocke merchantarying. You know how I dislike holding my head.
Speaker 1: It's extremely awkward for me to come aways my office,
Speaker 1: particularly a sium this present states, Oh dear me.
Speaker 4: Sit down, my craft, sit down, you know what's in
Speaker 4: Of course, I'm.
Speaker 1: Trying to find a chair, and I can trust the
Speaker 1: old man, and.
Speaker 5: Better take the sofa.
Speaker 4: If you certainly haven't got any tenner.
Speaker 1: I've never seen the Prime minister, sir upset, mister the Admiralty.
Speaker 1: It's buzzing, my can set behive you know anything about
Speaker 1: the case.
Speaker 4: What'sn't just been telling me what was in the newspapers?
Speaker 1: Just what were the technical papers found on the body
Speaker 1: sup For the love of Heaven, not so loud, those
Speaker 1: papers were, sir, wretched youth Heaveney's pocket, were none other
Speaker 1: than the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine. Oh, the
Speaker 1: submarine which would completely revolutionize naval warfare. The most important
Speaker 1: papers in our government archives. Under no circumstances going to
Speaker 1: be removed from the office. Even the Chief Constructor of
Speaker 1: the Navy was forced to go to Willis if he
Speaker 1: desired to consult them. And yet we find them in
Speaker 1: the pockets of a junior park in the heart of London.
Speaker 4: Yeah, from an official point of view, it's deplorable, my
Speaker 4: dear microft, simply deplorable.
Speaker 1: Human lives shut up. But this country won't be safe
Speaker 1: until they're recovered.
Speaker 3: I thought you said that they were found in the
Speaker 3: pocket of this Chef Kadugan West.
Speaker 1: Ten papers taken from Woolwich. Seven were found in the
Speaker 1: pockets of Cadugan West. Three are still missing. That three
Speaker 1: are central ones. To recover those three papers is imperative.
Speaker 1: The peace of Europe.
Speaker 4: Depends on nice little problem. It wasn't Why.
Speaker 5: Did Cadug and West take the papers?
Speaker 4: How did he die? How did his body reach the
Speaker 4: place where it was found? And where are the missing papers?
Speaker 1: Find the answer to those questions, Shellock, and you will
Speaker 1: have done your country an invaluable service.
Speaker 4: Why don't you solve it yourself? Micraft believe you could.
Speaker 1: Possibly, it's a question of digging out details. Give me
Speaker 1: the details and I can give you the solution from
Speaker 1: an armchair. No, when it comes to running about cross
Speaker 1: questioning railway guards and lying on one's face with a
Speaker 1: lens to one's eye, No, no, that's not my may chair.
Speaker 4: Besides, your figure prevents your taking such an undignified position.
Speaker 5: Eh, very well? Be that part of it was he
Speaker 5: wasn't good.
Speaker 1: I've got a cab waiting outside to take the place
Speaker 1: where the body is. Fan, I can give you the
Speaker 1: details on the way.
Speaker 4: Now, my craft, who was the official guardian of these
Speaker 4: famous papers.
Speaker 1: No less a personage than Sir James Waldo gentleman who's
Speaker 1: growing gray in the service. His patriotism is beyond suspicion.
Speaker 5: A bachelor.
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken lives with his brother.
Speaker 1: Yes, here's the house of Admiral Soonclair a Markley Square.
Speaker 1: During the whole of the evening when this accident occurred,
Speaker 1: the admiral vouches for him. He's one of the two
Speaker 1: who have the only.
Speaker 4: Keys, to say, and his keyp is with him all
Speaker 4: evening right.
Speaker 1: His key the key to the building, the key to
Speaker 1: the rule. Mm who was the man with the other key,
Speaker 1: the senior clerk, mister Cidey Johnson, man of forty married,
Speaker 1: silent morose, an excellent service record and the alibi he
Speaker 1: too had his key with him, seems to have spent
Speaker 1: the evening playing a game of drafts for the green
Speaker 1: grocer around the corner from his lodgings. Of course, he
Speaker 1: has only the word of this green grocer's back him.
Speaker 1: All come, come, my dear Micraft. No class discriminations, please.
Speaker 1: The word of a green grocer is often just as
Speaker 1: good as that of an admiral. And what about Kurdagon West.
Speaker 1: He had a good reputation, bit half headed, straighten honis
Speaker 1: least ever and fossa. He was next to Sidney Johnson
Speaker 1: at the office. His duties brought him into daily personal
Speaker 1: contact with the plans. No one else ever had the
Speaker 1: handling of them.
Speaker 2: It's perfectly clear he must.
Speaker 1: Have taken not so fast, mutched and not so fast.
Speaker 1: Who locked them up that night, mister Sidney Johnson, they
Speaker 1: were a value o commercially, I mean, oh yes, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt that West could have got several thousands for
Speaker 1: them very easily.
Speaker 4: And yet only a small amount of money was found
Speaker 4: on the body.
Speaker 3: Perhaps the buyer took it back off preed murdered West.
Speaker 1: And what puzzles me is how did West obtain possession
Speaker 1: of those papers.
Speaker 4: To do so, he must have had a false key.
Speaker 1: Several false keys shut up he had over the building
Speaker 1: and the room as well.
Speaker 4: Oh well, well, well several false keys. Then let me see.
Speaker 2: Let me see.
Speaker 1: Suppose West did take the papers and went into town,
Speaker 1: and on the way back to wood Edge, where he
Speaker 1: is hoping to replace the papers, he's killed and thrown
Speaker 1: from the train. But the spot where the party was
Speaker 1: found is considerably past the station for London Bred, which
Speaker 1: is the route to Willowat.
Speaker 4: It's interesting also, if young West did make an appointment
Speaker 4: for some foreigner agent to sell the papers that night,
Speaker 4: why didn't he get the evening clear, why.
Speaker 1: Buy two filler tickets exactly? Furthermore, he actually escorted his
Speaker 1: fiance halfway there before he disappeared blind.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like to me.
Speaker 1: Why did you take the papers at all? Why not
Speaker 1: copy them out in the office and sell the copies?
Speaker 1: He certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so. And
Speaker 1: why the absence of his underground ticket?
Speaker 3: That's the ticket will have shown us which station was
Speaker 3: near the agent's house. So the murderer destroyed it? Good Watson,
Speaker 3: very good?
Speaker 4: Yes, I wonder Well, here's the underground station.
Speaker 1: The railway authorities have sent a man around to show
Speaker 1: the exact place where the body was found.
Speaker 4: You won't change your mind and come with us.
Speaker 1: You're falling around that black hole on my hands and knees. Hut.
Speaker 1: Very likely. Well, I shall expect a report on your
Speaker 1: f As the CIA, I never expect too much, my craft,
Speaker 1: never expect too much. Before we follow Holmes and Watson
Speaker 1: into the mazes of the London subway system. I have
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Speaker 2: This is why I.
Speaker 3: Said step right along the tracks if it isn't safe.
Speaker 3: Supposing the train should come shooting around that curve. Oh
Speaker 3: that's all right, so there won't be another for five minutes.
Speaker 1: Anyway, here we are said, this is where they found
Speaker 1: the body, right here, alongside the rails, lying on its face.
Speaker 3: It was spooky plays their homes like the catacombs on there,
Speaker 3: without the.
Speaker 1: Skeletons, anything in his hands when they found him, now, sir,
Speaker 1: but they clinched what spread out as if he were
Speaker 1: protecting himself.
Speaker 3: Now sir, there was what you might call relax by time.
Speaker 4: It always happened well.
Speaker 1: So the trainee was oystered out as near as we
Speaker 1: can figure, passed.
Speaker 3: Along here about midnight on Mandy.
Speaker 4: All the carriages have been examined for signs of violence.
Speaker 3: I suppose it didn't find nothing, not even the missing ticket.
Speaker 1: There was a passenger to all.
Speaker 3: Gate on the ordinary train about eleven forty it was.
Speaker 1: He said he heard heavy, sad park something strike in
Speaker 1: the line just.
Speaker 3: Before the train reached this station. But it was so foggy,
Speaker 3: he said, he was blessed if he could see what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: Home. What's the matter? Were you stearing it?
Speaker 1: The Curt Watson? Whatever the rails, I only you What
Speaker 1: do you mean? I suppose that not any curves as
Speaker 1: abrupt as.
Speaker 3: This and now so I can't say, as there is,
Speaker 3: what have curls got to do in this?
Speaker 4: An indication? What's a million indication? Hm?
Speaker 2: Unique, perfectly unique?
Speaker 4: And yet why not? I don't see any indications of
Speaker 4: bleeding on the.
Speaker 2: Line now, so there wasn't any to speak of.
Speaker 4: But I understand there was a considerable wound.
Speaker 3: The bone was crashed right enough, homes hear that it's
Speaker 3: a train, it's coming as well. Fancy runs along as well?
Speaker 2: Did a place for the fras which you don't.
Speaker 6: What's to run?
Speaker 1: It's stets around the curve where we'll have a package
Speaker 1: which yes, we will faster, faster. There's this witch happy
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: He comes fay Now we'll make it.
Speaker 3: We'll make it a justin watch some form a love
Speaker 3: of the curtain.
Speaker 1: You're on a long track.
Speaker 2: Well that was an arose cape home.
Speaker 3: I must say, my knees is so shaking. Look at
Speaker 3: the shoulder my coat where.
Speaker 2: You pull at me.
Speaker 5: Lucky thing for you that I did.
Speaker 2: Where we are for now and in this fog.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a nice afternoon.
Speaker 1: Supposed to pay a few calls, I think, Sir James
Speaker 1: Water claims our first attention.
Speaker 4: After that we might drop in on miss.
Speaker 3: Westbury's westper who she is cause ig.
Speaker 1: In west Fiancee. I'm the last person to see him alive.
Speaker 3: Ohs, we seem to be going around in circles. We've
Speaker 3: accomplished absolutely nothing so far except to get to to
Speaker 3: get ourselves nearly a nahledge in the underground.
Speaker 2: I'll fall us perfectly of this.
Speaker 3: The young may had a quarrel with someone no probably
Speaker 3: to the agent who'll be sell the papers, and let
Speaker 3: himself thrown out of the rail with.
Speaker 2: Carriage for his pay.
Speaker 4: I disagree with him, my dear Watson.
Speaker 1: His body fell from the roof of the carriage where
Speaker 1: it had been placed. Kadugan west met his death elsewhere
Speaker 1: the roof of the train. Consider the facts, Watson, Hey,
Speaker 1: the curve in the tracks. The body is found at
Speaker 1: the spot where the train pitches and sways as it
Speaker 1: comes around the points.
Speaker 4: Be there's no ticket.
Speaker 1: See there were no signs of bleeding on the line
Speaker 1: because the.
Speaker 4: Body had bled elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Everything fitted together.
Speaker 3: But but where was the body placed on the train.
Speaker 4: I think I can make a fair guess of that,
Speaker 4: my dear Watson. Ah, here we are this is the.
Speaker 1: Famous official villa of Sir James Walter. And that, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, is his brother Colonel Valentine just coming
Speaker 1: out of her house?
Speaker 2: What's the matter with her, Manny? He looks positively haunted.
Speaker 4: Well, pardon me, Colonel Valentine, But can you tell me
Speaker 4: if if Sir James is at home?
Speaker 3: Sir James, Sir James is dead, good, Heaven's dead.
Speaker 1: He died this morning.
Speaker 3: It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 4: How did he die?
Speaker 1: It's this horrible scandal. My brother, Sir was very sensitive
Speaker 1: of his honor. He couldn't survive the disgrace to his department.
Speaker 1: It broke his heart. Pardon me, Jack and Flie must go.
Speaker 1: It broke his heart.
Speaker 2: Appauling development.
Speaker 1: I wonder if his death was natural or if the
Speaker 1: poor fellow killed himself. Yes, can you tell miss Westbreth,
Speaker 1: mister Sherlock Holmes would like to see her?
Speaker 7: How Please come in, gentlemen, I'm vout west Berlimitter Holmes.
Speaker 7: I've been expecting you ever since I heard you had
Speaker 7: taken the case. Please be seated. Thank you, oh mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: We we must save his good name. He couldn't have
Speaker 7: done it. Codagon was the most chivorous, patriotic gentleman. Or
Speaker 7: if he couldn't have done it, he would have his
Speaker 7: right hand off rather than celtate secret.
Speaker 4: The facts, my dear Miss Westbury.
Speaker 7: I admit I can't explain them. Was he in need
Speaker 7: of money, No, mister Holmes, His need was simple, and
Speaker 7: his salary very good. He'd saved several hundred pounds. We
Speaker 7: were to be married at the New Year, I see.
Speaker 1: Had you noticed any signs of mental excitement? Well there is, come,
Speaker 1: Miss Westbury, be frank with us.
Speaker 7: Yes, that night I had a feeling that there was
Speaker 7: something on his mind.
Speaker 4: Tell us about it, will you.
Speaker 7: We were on the way to the theater. It was
Speaker 7: a foggy night, you remember, we were walking slowly. Our
Speaker 7: way took us close to his office. Kadugan seems thoughtful
Speaker 7: and worried.
Speaker 8: He the Mary.
Speaker 7: I haven't had a word for the last five minutes.
Speaker 7: Have I said had done something?
Speaker 4: Of course, not silly.
Speaker 8: It's just that I've got something on my Why not
Speaker 8: tell me about it?
Speaker 7: Five I can help.
Speaker 3: It's no use for it.
Speaker 1: It's too serious for me to talk about even to you.
Speaker 7: You know, Sometimes Katy, I feel just the least little
Speaker 7: bit jealous of that old job of yours when you're
Speaker 7: cooped up in that building all day.
Speaker 8: Now, you're not going to be jealous of a building.
Speaker 7: Were not really, But it is funny to think of
Speaker 7: a husband having secrets you can't tell his wife.
Speaker 1: Mighty important secrets.
Speaker 9: I can promise you there's one in particular that any
Speaker 9: foreign spy would pay good money to get hold of.
Speaker 9: Thrilling and I don't know, awfully slack about some things
Speaker 9: over there in that building, bat what's too slack? It
Speaker 9: would be too confumed and easy for a trader to
Speaker 9: get his hands on those plans?
Speaker 3: What planned?
Speaker 9: Never mind, Darling, I guess I'm getting a bit melodramatic,
Speaker 9: but there's something been wearing me.
Speaker 3: Hello, what's that?
Speaker 4: What's what?
Speaker 2: Over there?
Speaker 8: That shadow moving along the side of the building. It's
Speaker 8: a man, So that's it. I always suspect you're used
Speaker 8: to excited.
Speaker 7: What's wrong?
Speaker 8: Stay here, val it it's something I have to find out.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 7: I waited and waited, but he never returned. Homeless homes.
Speaker 7: If you could only save his honor, it meant so.
Speaker 3: Much to him.
Speaker 1: You shall do our best, Miss Westbury. Listen, this shadow,
Speaker 1: this man moving along the building. Did you see it too?
Speaker 7: I think I did, mister Holmes, but the night was
Speaker 7: so fugly, I can't be sure. But there must have
Speaker 7: been a man, another man. It couldn't have been codogn sr.
Speaker 3: A character goes for something, let us hope.
Speaker 1: So come along, Watson, we muster turn home. I'm expecting
Speaker 1: an answer to some telegrams I sent Micraft earlier this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We've done enough for one day, Holmes.
Speaker 3: Will have been all day we've left this morning, fire
Speaker 3: was up. Now you've come home with a toweler rye
Speaker 3: and suit torn, and as revelous as a wolf.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've had a bit of exercise. My dear Watson
Speaker 1: passed me the tongue, will you it would have done.
Speaker 1: You've got to go along.
Speaker 2: Yes, what were you doing?
Speaker 4: Investing?
Speaker 1: Hiding the premises inhabited my foreign spies known to have
Speaker 1: been in London on last Monday?
Speaker 4: My Craft sent me a list of them.
Speaker 1: Took a bit of doing two climbing walls, breaking into cellars,
Speaker 1: powling around rooftops. I discovered there was only one residence
Speaker 1: which had the proper facilities for disposing of West's body
Speaker 1: after the murder. He belongs to Hugo Obstein. The address
Speaker 1: is thirteen Corfield Gardens, Kensington. A gentleman himself has departed
Speaker 1: for Europe a.
Speaker 3: Parlers he they took players with him, and it's too late.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily, Watson, what can we do now?
Speaker 1: We're going to keep a rendezvous with a gentleman who
Speaker 1: stole and sold those plans. The essignation will take place
Speaker 1: at mister Obustein's house this evening at nine.
Speaker 2: What the deuce you talking about?
Speaker 4: These newspapers tippings? I found them in the drawer of
Speaker 4: Hugo Obustein's desk.
Speaker 3: Greet them then a telegraph Agnicolumn.
Speaker 2: The first one says too complex a description, must have.
Speaker 3: Full report terms, agreed to payable wind goods delivered signed
Speaker 3: Piero Piero.
Speaker 2: Indeed sounds like a Mardi Gras.
Speaker 4: I read on, wasn't read on.
Speaker 3: Second goes matter presses must withdraw for unless contract completed.
Speaker 1: Piero again, and the last dated Monday, the day the
Speaker 1: claim is committed.
Speaker 3: Monday night, after nine two taps payment in hard cash.
Speaker 3: I say, if he was sudden, mean that the plans that.
Speaker 1: He was buying. I'm almost positive and Piero was Oberstein himself.
Speaker 1: But you'll find out for certain this evening. I've invited
Speaker 1: the gentleman who sold the papers to meet us. How
Speaker 1: I don't understand said it? This advertisement in to day's
Speaker 1: eily Telegraph to night, same ole, same placed, two taps,
Speaker 1: vitally important. Your own safety at stake, Signed Piero as
Speaker 1: usual by George.
Speaker 2: If he answers that week, we've got.
Speaker 1: Him, unless we're too late. Come on, Watson, there's no
Speaker 1: time to lose. You can take this passage of pan
Speaker 1: Bagget's for a change. Holah, I've been carrying it around
Speaker 1: all day.
Speaker 2: What's in it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Just a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel and a revolver.
Speaker 3: Nice equipment for a respectable citizen to be carrying about
Speaker 3: the streets of London.
Speaker 1: I must say, you know, Watson, there are times when
Speaker 1: I suspect we aren't quite respectable.
Speaker 4: Here we are this is coffee of gardens, like Kevin's
Speaker 4: sill foggy.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't like to be caught me active house breaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh this war, Watson. There's the window we can usually.
Speaker 2: Pry open in the back scale that walk.
Speaker 4: Come on, hurry up, horry up, there's no time to lose. Heah,
Speaker 4: here I give you a boost. Come on, that's it.
Speaker 1: Look out here I come.
Speaker 2: I must say, homes, there is a cat.
Speaker 1: It's a can.
Speaker 4: This is the window like the lantern and gim of
Speaker 4: the gemmy one.
Speaker 3: Two homes We go runs right past here, almost on
Speaker 3: the levels these windows.
Speaker 2: I can reach out and touched it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's quite convenient, wasn't it. Because here the body
Speaker 4: was placed on the roof of the train. Now this
Speaker 4: look on this window, sill.
Speaker 2: Hm, you can.
Speaker 1: See the soot is blurred with the rest of the body.
Speaker 1: And yeah, look here, look look this brown stain his blood.
Speaker 2: M let's see. This's get on the house very well.
Speaker 4: Then come along, come along. The windows open easy, easy,
Speaker 4: don't break the glass.
Speaker 2: I suppose he over stee you happen to return home.
Speaker 4: We're mistake our chances in this business. Come along, what'sn't
Speaker 4: come along? My visitor will expect to be let him
Speaker 4: by the front door.
Speaker 2: Lucy's stairs. Didn't do didn't squeak?
Speaker 4: So nine o'clock we can expect him at any moment. Now,
Speaker 4: if you take your position on one side of the door.
Speaker 4: I'll be on the other so we can punce on
Speaker 4: him when he enters, i'nswer my great coat over his head.
Speaker 2: I wish he'd hurry. Sh What what if he doesn't
Speaker 2: come there?
Speaker 4: He is ready now, I opened the door you wanted me.
Speaker 1: No, you don't broo with you?
Speaker 4: Easy?
Speaker 1: What's easy?
Speaker 2: Hide homes I've got him.
Speaker 1: Well, let's take a look at that. Catch take we
Speaker 1: ever got away?
Speaker 3: Watson?
Speaker 2: Hide?
Speaker 1: Hi, it's Colonel Valentine. Walk water change his frock quite well? Time?
Speaker 4: What have you to say to yourself?
Speaker 1: Why did you steal the Bruce Paddington plans?
Speaker 3: Is? What do you know about this?
Speaker 1: I am Sherlock.
Speaker 4: Holmes and I know everything.
Speaker 1: Oh this is terrible. I'm lost. I didn't realize the
Speaker 1: importance until my brother killed himself.
Speaker 3: But I needed the money. I let to have it.
Speaker 1: Obustine offered to give it to me if I take
Speaker 1: him see the plan. So you took an impression of
Speaker 1: your brother's key, opened the safe and procured the papers.
Speaker 1: Godagon West saw you leaving the building, followed you here
Speaker 1: and you killed him.
Speaker 8: No, I didn't do that, I swear I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: No, And perhaps you'd better tell us who did murder
Speaker 1: goddagon West.
Speaker 4: And placed him on the roof of the railway carriage.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I promise you I will.
Speaker 3: I did the rest, I confess it.
Speaker 5: But not that very well.
Speaker 1: Then how did it happen? I got the papers, as
Speaker 1: you've discovered, and made my way through the fog until
Speaker 1: I reached the door. Once or twice I fancied I
Speaker 1: was being followed. I could hear footsteps on the pavement
Speaker 1: behind me. Colonel Order, Yes, you had the papers.
Speaker 3: Yes, let me in quick. I think someone's been follow Yes,
Speaker 3: it's me.
Speaker 1: You can't do the Valentine.
Speaker 8: It's treason, you hear, No, you can't sell the paper's Valentine.
Speaker 2: I won't bless you.
Speaker 1: He will see.
Speaker 6: How do you like that my impeture sank find Papa Overstein.
Speaker 6: He knows how to use.
Speaker 3: A bleacher care you knows killed him, So it's murder.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get out of his.
Speaker 6: Fun or I think difference. You will come in here.
Speaker 6: If you do not wish to taste the black jack tool.
Speaker 3: Come by.
Speaker 6: That is better.
Speaker 2: What can we do? They will find the body.
Speaker 6: I have an idea. First, I look at those papers.
Speaker 6: I take the ones I want underrest. You put in
Speaker 6: the pocket of this foolish young man, and then we
Speaker 6: give him a nice ride on top of the underground train. No,
Speaker 6: he will be the guilty one.
Speaker 1: Who will ever know.
Speaker 3: What a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman.
Speaker 6: What a pity that he got away.
Speaker 3: With the papers, Doctor wat Hoe. But he didn't. Oberstein
Speaker 3: had left a palace forwarding addressed with Colonel Walters.
Speaker 2: That gentleman sent him a letter dictated by.
Speaker 3: Holmes, saying that he had discovered that one essential detail
Speaker 3: in the plans was missing, and that he had procured
Speaker 3: a tracing which would make it complete for a price.
Speaker 3: And did Oberstein swallow the bait? Did he swallow it?
Speaker 3: He was arrested as he got off the boat of folks.
Speaker 3: Some weeks later I learned, incidental that Holmes had spent
Speaker 3: a day at Windsor Castle in return will remarkably fine
Speaker 3: Emerald typim. When I asked him when he got it,
Speaker 3: he answered it was just a small present from a
Speaker 3: certain gracious, little old lady.
Speaker 2: For whom he'd been able to do a small favor.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I think I can guess the lady's August's name.
Speaker 3: Elementary my dear mister Manning Elementary.
Speaker 1: I see ladies and gentlemen. In just a moment, Doctor
Speaker 1: Watson will be back to tell us about next week's story.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, let us repeat, watch out for colds.
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Speaker 1: of colds. In other words, their specialized medication. And that's
Speaker 1: what you want. Yes, at the very first sneeze or
Speaker 1: sniffle go write to your druggists and get a package
Speaker 1: of Groves bromo quinine tablets now, doctor Watson.
Speaker 6: Next week.
Speaker 3: Next week, I think I'll tear to the story of
Speaker 3: the Lion's Main. The Lion's Main?
Speaker 4: What was that, Doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: The answer to that question, mister Manning, almost tump Sherlock
Speaker 3: Holmes in soaf. Suffice it to say that they were
Speaker 3: the last words gasped out by a dying man as
Speaker 3: he lay writhing in agony on the sands of the
Speaker 3: Sussex Coast.
Speaker 1: You have been listening to a Sherlock Holmes adventure adapted
Speaker 1: from Sir Arthur Coman Doyle's story The Bruce Partington Plants,
Speaker 1: with Dazzle raft Bone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce
Speaker 1: as Doctor Watson. The dramatization was by Edith Miser. This
Speaker 1: program is presented.
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Speaker 4: This is not Manning speak.
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