WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:05.400 Ah, there you are, mister Bartell. 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:08.640 Get any Oh excuse. 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:10.599 Me, doctor Watson, I didn't know that you had company. 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.199 Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us. 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.640 Let me introduce you, mister Bartell. This is my friend, 6 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.399 Missus Campbell. 7 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:18.480 How do you do, Missus Campbell? 8 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:19.559 How do you do, mister Bartell. 9 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:20.839 Missus Campbell is a. 10 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:22.960 Very old friend of mine from England, and when she 11 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.280 called on me today I persuaded her to stay and 12 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.079 have dinner and then join us in this little session 13 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.119 of storytelling. You see, mister Bartell, she's really what you 14 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.159 might call the star the Sherlock Holmes adventure that I'm 15 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:36.079 going to tell you tonight. 16 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.200 Oh come now, doctor Watson. I actually played a very 17 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.640 small part of the story. In any case, I was 18 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.439 much too young at the time to know what was 19 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:44.159 really going on. 20 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.840 Say this is a great idea, doctor, one of the 21 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.240 characters out of your fabulous past here in California in 22 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.159 nineteen hundred and forty six, and helps tell her own story. 23 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.600 Oh no, mister Bartel, I'm no storyteller. 24 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:57.039 That's the doctor's department. 25 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.320 I'll just listen. No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll 26 00:00:59.320 --> 00:00:59.920 set the scene. 27 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.880 But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were. 28 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.400 In any case, my memory isn't to clear on some 29 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.719 of the early points in connection with the case. You 30 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:09.200 will have to help me out, hope. 31 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.319 But you're talking to millions of listeners on the radio. 32 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.480 I'd be terrified to speak over the air. 33 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:15.400 Oh we're on the air now, missus Campbell. 34 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:17.040 Oh oh we're not, are we? 35 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:17.560 Oh? 36 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:21.840 Oh, dear Anna, don't worry, Cinthia. If they're kind enough 37 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:24.000 to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll 38 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.959 be delighted to hear you. And now to get on 39 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.480 with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll, 40 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.239 the setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to 41 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.560 which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten. 42 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.159 And now, Cynthia, my dear, the curtain's going up, and 43 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:43.560 the first scene belongs to you. 44 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:45.040 Supposing you set it for. 45 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.640 Us, well, I'll try. 46 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.319 We were living on the Sussex Downs, also, mister Bartel 47 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.159 at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning. My father, 48 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.079 Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but my mother 49 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.640 kept up the estate with the manager, a Missus U Tanner. 50 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.319 I was away at school most of the year, of course, 51 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.359 but the happiest times of my childhood was spent during 52 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.400 those long summer months in Sussex. 53 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:08.919 I lived in a. 54 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.719 Small world, knowing only a few people, and loving all 55 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.560 of them, or almost all. First of all, there was 56 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.840 mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman in the 57 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.240 world and the sweetest. I remember she gave me a 58 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.080 puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name was Dusty, and 59 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:27.280 she was so sweet. 60 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:28.680 I talked to. 61 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:29.840 Mother about him one day. 62 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.800 I must have sounded terribly young. 63 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.240 Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's 64 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.599 a lovely puppy, and you gave him to me. 65 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.960 You love him, Cynthia. I know that, But I've been 66 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.240 feeding him. That's your job, darling. It's good for grown 67 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:48.639 up people to have responsibility. 68 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.280 Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will. 69 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.039 I'll feed him so poor here First. 70 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.520 Then there was the estate manager, Hugh Tennor, such a 71 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.400 pleasant man and so willing to tell a twinwelve year 72 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:02.840 old all the things that a twelve year old has 73 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:04.879 to know or die. 74 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.520 But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse? 75 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.159 He'd only broken his. 76 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.719 Leg, Cynthia, horses aren't like human beings. 77 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:14.960 Their legs won't men. 78 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.000 I think of a horse that couldn't risk and run 79 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:22.319 and gallop across the downs. We're actually being kind to him, 80 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:23.400 honest to be, are Cinna. 81 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.199 And then there was Frank King, the painter who lived 82 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.919 on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes 83 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:31.280 and really see things. 84 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.719 No, no, no, Cynthia, that sunset isn't red. It's gold 85 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.520 and russ and the water. Child, look at it, it's 86 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:43.280 almost rose in this light, rose flecked with cobwebs of 87 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:44.919 eggshell blue, Cynthia, Darling. 88 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.599 A sunset's never just one color. Do try and remember that, 89 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:47.960 won't you. 90 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.719 And then there was mister Pound from the city. I 91 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.479 gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to 92 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.960 marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls. 93 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:00.560 Uh, Cynthia, I am going to you a half a 94 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.360 crown for being a very good little girl. 95 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:04.039 Now tell me what will. 96 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:04.520 You do with it? 97 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:05.919 About something for money? 98 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.120 Oh no, no, my dear, this is your own money. 99 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.240 You put it in the savings account of the post 100 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.680 office and it'll make more money for you. Always remember, 101 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.480 my dear, take care of the pennies, and the pounds 102 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:17.040 will take. 103 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:17.800 Care of themselves. 104 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.720 Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all 105 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:23.480 the things that aren't in books. 106 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.480 Always remember my bunny. 107 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.279 But it's good luck. 108 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:29.839 To touch the hump of a hunchback. 109 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.279 But the curso Beelziva himself will be upon you if 110 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.959 you look at a slipper of silver moan through the glass. 111 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.199 And then the strangest and most wonderful of it all 112 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.360 was the lean, middle aged man with his sharp face 113 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.399 and the bean in it, whom I met one day 114 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.040 on the downs. 115 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.480 Good afternoon, young lady. Good afternoon. 116 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:51.680 I'm Cynthia Barney. 117 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.680 My name is Holmes Comes. 118 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:55.720 Why are you carrying that net you're looking for? 119 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.439 Bat flat knows Cynthia. I'm a bee farmer, beef farah. 120 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.319 Well that sounds funny. How are you farm me? 121 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:04.920 Come over to my face my day and I'll show you. 122 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.439 I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying. 123 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:07.639 Isn't it? 124 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:07.920 Doll? 125 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.160 My mascot was given to be by Frank King, the painter. 126 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:12.360 He made it for me. 127 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.879 He made it look as much like me as possible. 128 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.240 I call her me. 129 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:18.040 It's remarkable likeness. 130 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.959 See the hair that's clippings off my hair. And the 131 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.560 nails those are clippings from my own nails. 132 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:24.639 She's really mean. 133 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.319 I love her your own nails and hair, and the 134 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.160 dog is an exact replica of you. 135 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.839 I don't like that, Cynthia. 136 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:33.959 I remember my dear my name when you were it's 137 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.839 a Sherlock Holmes, and I live at the Bee Farm 138 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.639 and if anything unusual happens, accompany me at once. 139 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:43.600 Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting 140 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.120 with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened. 141 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.800 You didn't understand why he was so worried about the dog. 142 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.439 Well, no, but I remembered what you said about coming 143 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.480 to him if anything unusual happened. 144 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.800 And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen. 145 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:58.160 Yes, mister Bardell, and within a very few days. But 146 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.720 at this point I think doctor Watson should take over 147 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.519 the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really. 148 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:06.360 Enteredhimore really well. As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I 149 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.040 was staying with Holmes late in the afternoon. As I 150 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.560 remember that, you ran over to the Bee Farm where 151 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.199 I first met you, Cinthia a few moments before you arrived, 152 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.240 Holmes and I, each of us with a cup of 153 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.120 tea in our hands, were seated on the verandah, gazing 154 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.199 out across the downs and discussing the mute betty human affair. 155 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.920 It's strange, Watson, and after a lifetime devoted to the 156 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.319 more flamboyant aspects of everyday life, that now, in what 157 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.319 is the fast approaching twilight of my days, I find 158 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.639 such peace and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior 159 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.480 of peas. I wonder what Marrigarte would have thought, Oh, 160 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:42.879 are you talking. 161 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.160 As if you're an old daughter of ninety. You will 162 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.120 say what you like, and I don't think that you'll 163 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.720 ever really be happy in retirement, you, mister danger, the 164 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.439 the excitement of the chaste. 165 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.439 The public of plaim. What are you talking about? My 166 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.720 work was never for the public, and what did the public, 167 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.199 the great unobserved public could hardly tell a weaver by 168 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.959 his tooth or a typeset by his left thumb, care 169 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.120 about the finer shades of analysis or deduction. In any case, Watson, 170 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.240 I chose a happy time to sink into oblivion. In 171 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.120 compared for very recent years, a criminal seems to have 172 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.720 lost all his originality and enterprise, my own little practice 173 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:17.920 when I gave it up and seemed to be in 174 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.399 danger of developing into an agency for recovering lost lead 175 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:24.480 pencils or giving advice against ladies from boarding schools. 176 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.879 Talking of young ladies, who's this little girl running up 177 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:27.560 your driveway? 178 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:27.920 Oh? 179 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.920 Great, Scott, it's little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie. 180 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:31.319 Who's she? 181 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.040 Poor charming young neighbor of mine? Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes. 182 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:37.800 You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now? 183 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.639 Mister Holmes, you told me to come to you. Something 184 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.439 unusual happen. It has something that's frightened me. 185 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.040 Well, no, sit down, my dear. This is my old friend, 186 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:48.800 doctor Watson. Oh, how do you do, Santia? 187 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:49.600 How do you do? 188 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.879 Ah? Cynthia? What has frightened you? 189 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:56.639 It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed. 190 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.240 Her through the heart, Scott, a doll. 191 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.600 It's an exact repercover with the pen life frost into it. 192 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:06.680 Graciously, When did you find your your masscot like this? 193 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:08.040 Just out of tea? 194 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.519 Mammie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I 195 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.120 went up to my room, and found poor me on 196 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.560 the bed. I remembered what you told me about anything unusual, 197 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:18.920 and so I came over here. 198 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:20.519 As fast as I could, because I'm glad that you did. 199 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.720 Cnthia, did you tell your mother where you've gone with her? 200 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:23.360 No? 201 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.720 I didn't. She was still talking to the gentleman. 202 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.639 Worry about you when she discovers your disappears. 203 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.360 No, nobody wasn't. I'll go over and talk to her 204 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:33.639 at once, Cynthia. 205 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:34.600 My dear, Yes, mister Holmes. 206 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.559 Who was the gentleman calling on your mother? 207 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.279 Well there was mister Tanner. He's the man who looks 208 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.159 after the estate, the money, mister. 209 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:41.759 King, the paint. 210 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.000 Mister King is the man who made this doll. Eh. 211 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:45.360 Now who else was there? 212 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.919 Mister Pound. He's a businessman from London that's staying with money. 213 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.519 And they were all present in your house when you 214 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:56.639 found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes, 215 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.000 what's no chap. I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother 216 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.840 at once. I want Cynthia to stay care with you 217 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:15.600 god her old chap as you would your life. Missus Banning. 218 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.919 I know I'm a scene like an intrusive neighbor. But 219 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.879 possibly you've heard of me. My name is Holmes, Sherlocombs. 220 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.399 Well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes of 221 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:24.519 Please sit down, won't you? 222 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.080 Thank you? Your guests have left? 223 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.000 Yes, but how did you know I had guests? I 224 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.120 know you're a great to take care now. 225 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.440 Your charming little daughter Cynthia came over to see me 226 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.039 half an hour ago, she told me, So. 227 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.320 That's where she went. Did she come back with your no. 228 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.279 Missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained at 229 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.279 my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson will 230 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:43.399 look after her. I am afraid as she may be 231 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:44.000 in danger. 232 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.480 In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that? 233 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.360 Do you know your daughter's doll, the one fashioned in 234 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.639 her own likeness and with her own hair and nails. 235 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.200 Of course, Franklin made it for her. 236 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.159 While you were to tea this afternoon, your daughter found 237 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.000 the doll lying on her bed with a pin knife 238 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:58.080 stuck through its heart. 239 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.720 That's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should 240 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:02.440 be in any danger because of its home. 241 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:04.919 Missus Browning. Certain practitioners of magic believe that if a 242 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.639 doll like effigy is made of a human being, and 243 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.480 the efforgy is then mutilated, that a similar fate will 244 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.279 befall the living original. 245 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.360 But mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe 246 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:15.720 in it. 247 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.639 Not in the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Browning. 248 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.840 But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to 249 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.879 kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. Oh no, it may 250 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.799 be more than a possibility, I'm afraid. And when these 251 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.039 magical means fail, they will turn to more direct methods. 252 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:31.919 But who could possibly want her death? 253 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.320 You? You have not remarried, Missus Browning. 254 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.360 No, I feel it my duty to devote my life 255 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:38.480 to Arthur's child, Cynthia. 256 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.360 Yes, than anyone wishing to marry You might feel that 257 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.799 Cynthia stood in the way, but that's absurd but logical. 258 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.159 Missus Browning, Do you mind if I ask you a 259 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:46.039 very personal question? 260 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.639 With Cynthia's safety at stake, You may ask any question. 261 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.200 Are any of the three men who were present at 262 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:54.919 tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you? Will? I, please 263 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:56.639 be completely honest, Missus Browning. 264 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.919 At different times say they've all asked me to marry them. 265 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.559 Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead 266 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.919 husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen 267 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.879 this pen knife before it was the one un stuck 268 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:09.879 through the doll's heart. 269 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:11.679 I don't think i'd ever seen it before. 270 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:15.759 One final question, would anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a 271 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.879 knowledge of the practice of magic? Well? 272 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.399 The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman might? 273 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:22.720 Oh? 274 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:22.879 Who? 275 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:23.320 Might she be? 276 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.039 A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the 277 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.320 dance near here. She brews weird concoctions with her love 278 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:30.480 filters and all that sort of thing. 279 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.559 Have you a suitable companion for your daughter, Miss Brownie? 280 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:34.960 I know it's mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and 281 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.080 over again that she mustn't stray off and see the 282 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.840 old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at 283 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.320 her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently. 284 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:43.919 I like to talk to this woman. And where does 285 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:44.320 she lived? 286 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.399 I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there. 287 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:48.519 He used her as a model. 288 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.519 Frank King the painter, Yes, he lives in the village, 289 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:53.679 and I shall call on him at once and persuade 290 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.039 him to accompany it. We must find that wise woman, 291 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.639 and I hope save your child from magic, magic and 292 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:15.759 possible murder. Much further, Miess King, only a few more yards. 293 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.720 Mister Holmes, A little cottage is just behind. 294 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.240 The trees there. It's a pretty broken down place. Poor 295 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:21.919 old girl has only a few pennies to her name. 296 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.639 Imagine missus Warning was telling me that you used this 297 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:25.879 old woman as a model. 298 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.360 Yes, she was a fascinating subject. I painted hers. 299 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.200 She was mixing up some devil's concoction of herbs and spices. 300 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.919 I had her standing over a smoking cauldron with the 301 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:34.960 firelight playing on her. 302 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.559 Was who was quite affective, as it must have been 303 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.519 the subject of witchcraft appeals to its king right. 304 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:44.440 I don't know anything about it, which just that she 305 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.279 was such a wonderful subject for painting. 306 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:59.480 Here we are, I'm knock on the door. I will 307 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:01.720 take the liberty going in Chary, I don't why. 308 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:10.200 Not sh what is it? 309 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:15.000 List came from that room? Someone is here? Come on, 310 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:25.039 look at her, Look at her head. She's still alive. 311 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.120 She's long to this world. Can you hear me? Yeah? 312 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.799 Let me lift you up a little. Can you understand 313 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.960 what I'm saying? Tell me who was it that did 314 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.120 this to you? She's too par gone to speak. Put 315 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.960 a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey, 316 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.159 we thanks. Now can you write the name of the 317 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:45.279 man who did this to you? She's pushing the pencil away. 318 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.519 I don't suppose she knows how to write. She's trying 319 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:49.879 to show you something, mister Holmes. 320 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:51.720 She's trying to crawl over to the wall. 321 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:54.039 Yeah, let me help you. It's to be a hiding 322 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:54.879 place of some kind. 323 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.960 Look, she's taking a brick out of the wall. 324 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:04.200 What is it? Wreck Scott money editable jack DAWs nest 325 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:08.720 to pennies and small silver and at least a dozen 326 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.480 golden sovereigns. That was to the money book. 327 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:13.879 She's picking up one of the silver coins. 328 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:14.759 She's trying to give it. 329 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:15.720 To you, or a sixpence. 330 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:16.120 But what. 331 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:23.240 A poor woman. She's dead just as she was trying 332 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:27.080 to tell me something. I can't understand it. Golden sovereigns 333 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.879 in this hovel, and she was. She was showing you 334 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.919 a silver sixpence as she died. Mister Holmes, what are 335 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:37.799 you going to do? First check on the young girl's safety. Well, 336 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.639 I should like you to correct to my Mother's assemble 337 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.039 the other two men who are present at tea time 338 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:42.879 this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrive. I 339 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.039 shan't belong with the police. I shall summon them, mister King, 340 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.879 when I have the murderer to offer them, and I'm 341 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.679 convinced that that will be before the sun sets to night. 342 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:00.080 We'll hear the the. 343 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.600 Rest of doctor Watson's story in just a second time 344 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.120 enough for me to mention another wonderful Petrie wine, Petrie 345 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:11.120 California muscatel. If you like that subtle muscat flavor, Who 346 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.960 doesn't you really like Petrie muscatel. Patrie Muscatel is a 347 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.000 clear golden wine. It is just as much a hit 348 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.320 with the ladies as Petre Port is with the men. 349 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.240 But I don't mean by that that only the ladies 350 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:25.320 like Patrie Musketel. 351 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.600 In fact, if you want to be sure to please. 352 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:32.240 Everybody, get both Petri Port and Petrie Muscatel. In other words, 353 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:36.000 don't buy one, buy two, but do be sure you 354 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:40.320 always buy Petrie. Now back to doctor Watson and his 355 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.000 guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played a most important part 356 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:43.960 in the story herself. 357 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.480 Oh not nearly is important about is that lay by 358 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.919 mister Holmes and doctor Watson. 359 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.200 Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you 360 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:51.840 at the bee farm. 361 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.279 Well, first of all, he made shore the little girl 362 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.840 was safe. Then he told me of finding the dead 363 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.039 woman and of his theories as to the killing. I 364 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.320 can almost hear him now, mister Bartels. He said. 365 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.320 Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because 366 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.279 they knew the mother would never marry while the child 367 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:09.960 was alive. 368 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.159 And that someone persuaded the old woman to do the 369 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:13.000 job for him. 370 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.279 As well outedly, and she, believing in the pawers of 371 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.440 black magic, mutilated the doll, firmly, convinced that in so 372 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.240 doing she was destroying the young girl. It was fashioned, doctor. 373 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.360 And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the 374 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.320 woman was merely indulging in stupid foot cloy killed her, 375 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.399 realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with 376 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.240 her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous sintrol. 377 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.000 But how do you suppose we account for the horde 378 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.679 of money golden sovereigns? Don't forget if we founded my hobble, No. 379 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.519 Doubt it was a sum that she has already been 380 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:44.840 paid for the murder. 381 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.480 That she was going to commit, and she died. She 382 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.159 trying to give me the clue to her murder by 383 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:52.440 selecting certain certain coin. Now in a possession she had gold, silver, 384 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.840 and copper. She chose a silver coin. And yet I 385 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.559 can't see it significance. I must confess at the moment, 386 00:16:58.600 --> 00:16:59.120 possibly not. 387 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.480 And yet before the evening's over, I bet you that, 388 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.519 you say, Watson, I said, before the evening's over, I 389 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:05.880 bet you. 390 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.480 Like you, old fellow, that's the clue. 391 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.240 You bet me what on earth you're talking about? 392 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.400 Holmes, I'll just say, you'll just give me the answer 393 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.279 to the whole problem. Watson, I'm much obliged you stay 394 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.480 here what you will, chap and look out to Cynthia 395 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.119 a little while longer. Within a very short time, I 396 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:38.079 shall have her intended destroyer under lock and key. 397 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.799 Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come. I've had the greatest 398 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.839 difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen that their presence was necessary. 399 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.200 Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will 400 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.000 be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes, 401 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:50.759