Speaker 1: And now the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where Sir John
Speaker 1: Gilbert and Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Ralph Richardson as our
Speaker 1: story teller, Doctor James Watson.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I think I may have shown in the course of
Speaker 3: these narratives of mine that the exploits of my friend
Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes ranged from affairs of the humblest order to
Speaker 3: matters concerning the very highest.
Speaker 2: In the land of the latter.
Speaker 3: There are many which perhaps can never be told for
Speaker 3: reasons of diplomacy or even scandal, And in those that can,
Speaker 3: dates and names sometimes must be disguised, even now, particularly
Speaker 3: in the unusual adventure which I have called the Second State.
Speaker 2: Mister, well, Missus Hudson, you seem a little over order,
Speaker 2: if I may say so.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's the gentleman, the two gentlemen to see you
Speaker 4: waiting downstairs.
Speaker 2: Well, we've seen gentlemen before, Missus Hudson.
Speaker 5: Yes, our lives would hardly be economically possible without our
Speaker 5: visiting plans.
Speaker 2: It is, oh, mister Holmes, doctor Watsons in bakes.
Speaker 5: Cheap, my humble come, Missus Hudson, not the Prince of Wales.
Speaker 2: What officer.
Speaker 4: It's the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of England.
Speaker 3: Sir, well, well, my dear home, you're dressing gown.
Speaker 5: Oh here take this, take this, give me my jacket.
Speaker 2: My dear fellow. Yes, sure you up, missus Hudson, sure, hm.
Speaker 2: You musn't keep the Prime Minister waiting.
Speaker 3: So into our humble sitting room came those two great men,
Speaker 3: Lord Bellinger, the Premier, and his companion, the Secretary for
Speaker 3: European Affairs, the right Honorable Trelawney Hope.
Speaker 5: So, gentlemen, I take it I may have the honor to.
Speaker 2: Be of some service to you.
Speaker 6: You are I only hope, mister Holmes. The Prime Minister
Speaker 6: suggested you at once the moment I told.
Speaker 2: Him a y dreadful loss. It was impossible for us
Speaker 2: to go to the police a full loss, sir. Indeed, yes,
Speaker 2: to inform.
Speaker 7: The police would be to inform the public, and.
Speaker 2: That is what we particularly desire to avoid.
Speaker 7: An important to take document is missing mislaid while in
Speaker 7: mister Hope's possession, and it is of such importance that
Speaker 7: peace or war may hang upon the issue.
Speaker 2: I understand, my lord.
Speaker 5: Now I should be obliged if mister Hope would kind
Speaker 5: of tell me the exact circumstances under.
Speaker 2: Which this document disappeared.
Speaker 6: Of course, sir, But this, gentleman, your companion, doctor Watson,
Speaker 6: is in my confidence in everything I undertake. Indeed, this
Speaker 6: is really almost impossible for me to embark upon a
Speaker 6: case without him.
Speaker 2: You can rely upon his discretion implicitly to the very utmost, gentleman,
Speaker 2: I promise it very well.
Speaker 6: Then it's a letter, mister Holmes, I can tell you
Speaker 6: that it's a letter from from a certain foreign portent.
Speaker 2: Take, mister Holmes, let's us leave it so quite so
Speaker 2: for the moment at least. Well, when was it received?
Speaker 2: May I have six days ago? It was so important
Speaker 2: that I'd never even left it in my safe.
Speaker 6: I'd taken it across each evening to my house white
Speaker 6: hold Terraced, and kept it in a locked despatch box
Speaker 6: in my bedroom. It was there last night. You are
Speaker 6: certain of that, Quite certain. I opened the box while
Speaker 6: I was blessing for dinner and saw it there.
Speaker 2: This morning it was gone, the box itself, no, only
Speaker 2: the letter half.
Speaker 6: My wife and I are both liked sleeper. Sister Holmes
Speaker 6: were both prepared to swear that no one could have
Speaker 6: entered the room during the night.
Speaker 2: Yet the paper's gone at miss ruined, ruined. What time
Speaker 2: do you dine, mister Hope, half past seven? And how
Speaker 2: long was it before you went to bed? My wife
Speaker 2: had gone to a theater. I waited up for her.
Speaker 2: It was half past eleven before we retired to our room.
Speaker 5: Yes, then for four hours the box had lain unguarded.
Speaker 6: No one is ever permitted to enter that room except
Speaker 6: two trusted servants who are beyond suspicion.
Speaker 2: Who else knew of the existence of that letter? No
Speaker 2: one in the heart not your wife, no, sir. I
Speaker 2: said nothing to her until I missed the paper this morning.
Speaker 5: Is there any one else, my Lord, in England who
Speaker 5: could possibly know of the existence.
Speaker 2: Of this letter?
Speaker 7: Only the members of the cabinet, mister Holmes, but all
Speaker 7: under the pledge.
Speaker 8: Of secrecy which attends.
Speaker 5: Every cabinet me and abroad.
Speaker 2: I believe no one save the man who wrote it.
Speaker 2: And may I ask his name, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: The envelope is a long, thin one of a pale
Speaker 9: blue color.
Speaker 8: That is all I think that you need to know.
Speaker 5: Well, I am quite aware that you are two of
Speaker 5: the busiest men in the country and in my own
Speaker 5: small way.
Speaker 2: I have a good many calls upon my time. I
Speaker 2: regret exceedingly that I cannot have you in this matter.
Speaker 2: What would you find him? The bell?
Speaker 1: Mister Hose?
Speaker 9: How dare you?
Speaker 2: I am not a cup?
Speaker 8: Hm?
Speaker 2: Very well, we must accept your terms. I suppose no
Speaker 2: doubt it is unreasonable or it's to expect you to
Speaker 2: act without our entire confidence. Thank you, my lord. Praise
Speaker 2: it down again, Watson Ah.
Speaker 7: Now, then, gentlemen, the letter is from a certain foreign
Speaker 7: potentate who has been ruffled by some recent colonial developments.
Speaker 2: In this country.
Speaker 7: It was written hurriedly, and the anger on his own
Speaker 7: responsibility entirely, and his ministers know nothing about it.
Speaker 2: You mean his highness, the come Prince of mister Home.
Speaker 5: Very well, sir, let me write it down on this
Speaker 5: slip of paper.
Speaker 2: Am I correct? My lord? Quite correct?
Speaker 8: And you see it wants the indications.
Speaker 7: If that document should fall into the hands of any
Speaker 7: other chancery in Europe, a breach will be made between
Speaker 7: this potentated our country, with fatal consequences.
Speaker 2: You must find it homes great heavens, you must, sir.
Speaker 2: My whole future defends one. I shall do my best
Speaker 2: to help you, mister Hope.
Speaker 9: I can do no more.
Speaker 5: But if the scept occurred last night before you retired,
Speaker 5: as it must have done, the paper must at this
Speaker 5: moment be speeding on its way to the continent as
Speaker 5: fast as steam.
Speaker 2: Can take it. My lord. Well, mister Holm, if.
Speaker 5: I may presume to advise you, yes, yes, there is
Speaker 5: only one course open to you.
Speaker 2: What is it, sir?
Speaker 5: Prepare for war, my lord, for I shall do what
Speaker 5: I can, but at least prepare for war.
Speaker 9: Good day, gentson ah, they've gone.
Speaker 5: Well, well holmes, who'll behave the most discreetly, my dear fellow.
Speaker 5: I was so proud of you, your whole air detached
Speaker 5: interest of silent helpfulness. You know you've missed your calling,
Speaker 5: my dear Watson, you ought who have been a diplomat?
Speaker 5: Oh it's it's no laughing matter, homes you thinks not.
Speaker 5: It really is the most serious affair, larmingly so. But
Speaker 5: the situation, though desperately serious, is not quite hopeless, I believe.
Speaker 5: What do you intend to do with There are several
Speaker 5: foreign agents, big names among the international spy ring. If
Speaker 5: one of them should be missing, especially if he's disappeared
Speaker 5: since last night.
Speaker 2: We shall then have some indication of where the letter
Speaker 2: may have gone.
Speaker 5: Ah, yes, yes, But if none of them is missing,
Speaker 5: then we can take it that the letter hasn't left
Speaker 5: the country yet. That would be something of a miracle.
Speaker 5: And in that case, well I might.
Speaker 2: Be able to get it back.
Speaker 5: After all, I have the whole British treasury behind me.
Speaker 5: If it's on the market, I'll buy it back, even
Speaker 5: if it means another penny on the income day.
Speaker 2: Huh. But who who are the likely agents?
Speaker 5: Only three that are big enough Oberstein, la Rotier and
Speaker 5: Eduardo Lucas Holmes.
Speaker 10: Whom, dear fellow, you look so white? What on earth's
Speaker 10: the matter? Homes Keven knows you've astonished me more than
Speaker 10: once with some spectacular announcement. Now it might turn well, Watson.
Speaker 10: Eduardo Lucas Holmes, you said, Lucas, I think yes, of course,
Speaker 10: of the dolphins.
Speaker 5: See exactly you won't see, Lucas Holmes. And why not
Speaker 5: pray it was murdered in his house last night?
Speaker 2: Lucas, you don't mean it. I was reading about it
Speaker 2: before our visitors arrived. Eduardo Lucas, the well.
Speaker 3: Known society flennor and distinguished amateur tenor murdered most bootle
Speaker 3: by a knife in the heart.
Speaker 2: What an amazing coincidence, homes.
Speaker 11: Coincidence, Man, great heavens, you can't really mean it, Eduardo Lucas,
Speaker 11: Did I tell you wats'?
Speaker 2: Well? Well? Well, what's the matter, Missus Hudson Dwight twight?
Speaker 2: In one day? Just think of my humble Who is
Speaker 2: it this time? Woman?
Speaker 4: The lady you do, sir?
Speaker 2: Who did you say? The lady yielded to norny, mister home.
Speaker 2: The wife of the gentleman is Lord Deninger Holmes. You're
Speaker 2: dressing Guard, You're dressing gard now Jack and missus Hudson free.
Speaker 3: And the moment later, our modest apartment, already so distinguished
Speaker 3: that morning, was further honored by the entrance of the
Speaker 3: loveliest woman in London, nay, in the world. I'd often
Speaker 3: heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter of the
Speaker 3: Duke of Bellminster, but no description, no contemplation of.
Speaker 2: A lifeless photograph, had prepared.
Speaker 3: Me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful modeling
Speaker 3: of that exquisite head. And I am not, I think
Speaker 3: without taste as a judge in such things. Yet that morning.
Speaker 3: The lovely cheek was paled with emotion. The eyes were bright,
Speaker 3: but with the brightness of fever of terror.
Speaker 4: How do you have my husband been yet? Yes, madam,
Speaker 4: why did you implore you to say nothing to him of.
Speaker 2: This visit of mine?
Speaker 5: Lady Hill, there, you placed me in a very delicate
Speaker 5: position that there was.
Speaker 4: A most deplorable occurrence to our house last night.
Speaker 2: Oh you must know.
Speaker 4: But but since it was a political matter, my husband
Speaker 4: refuses to take me into his coupeque confidence.
Speaker 2: Indeed, what is that missing paper? What is madam? That
Speaker 2: is something I cannot answer.
Speaker 5: If your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark,
Speaker 5: it is harder for me to tell you. I am
Speaker 5: pledged a professional secrecy.
Speaker 4: Well tell me at least then, for Heaven's sake, is
Speaker 4: my husband's professional career likely to suffer through the incident. Yes,
Speaker 4: I fear so, mister Home, from something that my husband
Speaker 4: said when he first discovered the last this morning.
Speaker 2: I please go on.
Speaker 4: I understand the terrible public consequences might arise from the
Speaker 4: loss of this document, perhaps even what he said.
Speaker 2: So, Lady Hill, there, it is not for me to
Speaker 2: deny it.
Speaker 4: Won't you tell me miss Home, I implore you, what
Speaker 4: was that missing paper? Then to take up no more
Speaker 4: of your time. I can't blame you if you feel
Speaker 4: you can't speak more freely.
Speaker 9: The letter must have been very grave, indeed.
Speaker 2: Before you were ever consulted.
Speaker 4: And I am sure you won't need the worst of
Speaker 4: me for wanting to share my husband's anxiety, even against
Speaker 4: your will. I can only bid you once again to
Speaker 4: say nothing of my videos.
Speaker 9: It would only wody him the more good day.
Speaker 2: Well, well, wasn't that the fair Sex Watson? That is
Speaker 2: your department?
Speaker 5: I think when you finished gazing out of the window
Speaker 5: to get a last glimpse of our elegant charmer, perhaps
Speaker 5: you will be kind enough to tell me what you
Speaker 5: think she came for.
Speaker 9: Shure it showing her own statements was karing our holmes.
Speaker 12: Her anxiety was very natural, yes, doubt.
Speaker 5: Yet you must have observed how very pretty she maneuvered
Speaker 5: her chair so as to keep her death with the light.
Speaker 5: She didn't want us to read how expression was.
Speaker 2: And you said the same.
Speaker 3: About the woman from Margaret took him to see us
Speaker 3: a month ago. It turned out that she was wiled
Speaker 3: because she had no powder on her Those true, true,
Speaker 3: The motives of women are certainly inscrutable. It's difficult to
Speaker 3: build upon such quicksands. Their most important decisions.
Speaker 5: May depend upon a hairpin or a pair of curling tongs. Well,
Speaker 5: good morning, Watson. Why what are you going homes?
Speaker 2: Oh, just for a little while. It took a dolphin street.
Speaker 5: I think our friendless trade of the yard is sure
Speaker 5: to be there by this time. Eduardo Lucas murdered. Fair
Speaker 5: lives the solution, Watson, do you stay on guard here,
Speaker 5: my dear fellow, and receive any further distinguished visitors who
Speaker 5: may honor our humble of those last time away. I'll
Speaker 5: join you for lunch, Watson, cutlets.
Speaker 2: And green peas, if you could think of that all
Speaker 2: day and the next day.
Speaker 3: Holmes was in a mood which some had called taciturn
Speaker 3: and others murros. He ran out and ran in, smoked,
Speaker 3: incessantly played his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at
Speaker 3: irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions.
Speaker 2: I put to him.
Speaker 3: I felt a sense of impending doom as I watched
Speaker 3: London from our window going about his busy duties. I
Speaker 3: reflected that any moment the newsboys would cry, havoc and
Speaker 3: the flower of our youth.
Speaker 2: Go marching off to war.
Speaker 3: As to the murder of Glucas, that remained as much
Speaker 3: a mystery as the theft of the document.
Speaker 2: He'd been stabbed to the heart with a.
Speaker 3: Curved oriental dagger, a trophy that hung on the wall
Speaker 3: of his room. It seems that nothing had been stolen,
Speaker 3: and an examination of his papers disclosed him as a
Speaker 3: keen student of the international politics.
Speaker 2: That was all.
Speaker 5: Then suddenly, well we've solved it, mister Holmes, really, Less Trade,
Speaker 5: have you?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 11: I we have our.
Speaker 9: Methods to you know, he means the murder home, don'tly
Speaker 9: the murder?
Speaker 2: Ooh more, misters, mister Holmes, watch in the wind.
Speaker 5: He heard nothing nothing. Watson's just wool gathering. My dealer's
Speaker 5: sad or sal at home. Don't mention it, My dear fellow,
Speaker 5: sit down, won't you?
Speaker 2: Less Trade? Have a cigar?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, sir, I won't, if you'll forgive me.
Speaker 12: I was going to suggest we went round there to
Speaker 12: the Dolphins Street. There's a little something that might interest you. Ah, well,
Speaker 12: what's happened, Less Trade?
Speaker 5: I think you said just now that you've solved were
Speaker 5: as near as makes no matter.
Speaker 12: We'd a telegram from the Paris police to see. Seems
Speaker 12: this Lucas fellow has been a bit of a dog
Speaker 12: in his time, very handsome, kind of chapneis so forth
Speaker 12: he's been living a double life. It seemed he had
Speaker 12: a wife in Paris or your department again, my dear Watson,
Speaker 12: creole woman as a matter of.
Speaker 3: Fact, very hot blooded creoles here.
Speaker 2: You know what women alive, doctor Watson? Well perhaps, well
Speaker 2: the straight of what's happened.
Speaker 12: Well, he'd been going at a bit in London, you know,
Speaker 12: one way and another, so we reckon.
Speaker 2: She got jealous.
Speaker 12: According to the parish fellow, she's gone quite mad since Tuesday,
Speaker 12: and it was established that she'd been in London on
Speaker 12: the night of the murder. She was seen near Godolphin Street.
Speaker 2: Yes, as it could.
Speaker 5: Only have been some kind of coincidence like that, otherwise
Speaker 5: the thing would have been public property by this time.
Speaker 12: What is it, mister Holmes, strikes me, your mind's hardly
Speaker 12: all the business.
Speaker 2: I don't thought it would.
Speaker 5: Have appealed to you, nothing the straight, nothing at all.
Speaker 5: What was it you said just now?
Speaker 2: Might interest me over at Lucas's house.
Speaker 12: Ah, yes, the one small detail, mister Holmes, nothing very important,
Speaker 12: you know, just a bit freakish. We'd best go round
Speaker 12: to the house and i'll show you you too, doctor
Speaker 12: eh father in your line as well. Oh well, of course,
Speaker 12: you know, I might even call it the mystery of
Speaker 12: the sick and stainer. The murder solved, but there's still
Speaker 12: a mystery of the.
Speaker 2: Sick and stain.
Speaker 9: Eh.
Speaker 2: They come in this rounds the godolphins too.
Speaker 12: Now then, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, this is a very
Speaker 12: room you see where he was maddered.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Indeed, now look here to see the rug.
Speaker 12: Mister Holmes, Now just look at the rug, gentlemen. You see,
Speaker 12: when there's a crime of this sort, we're very careful.
Speaker 2: To keep things in position.
Speaker 12: We've had an officer in charge here dead.
Speaker 5: Night, but so I noticed him as we came in.
Speaker 2: Now we didn't notion to tidy.
Speaker 12: Things up of it today. Now the body has been
Speaker 12: buried and such an old thing solved. Well, the rug
Speaker 12: isn't fastened down here, see, only just made there.
Speaker 2: For we occasioned to raise it and we found the
Speaker 2: blood stain there.
Speaker 9: See the blad stain on the road.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I great deal of blad matter, so away
Speaker 5: undust the undusted it must.
Speaker 12: And yet you'll be surprised, doctor, for there isn't a
Speaker 12: stain on the white woodwork but needs to correspond. But
Speaker 12: there must be the trade. It's it's impossible. So you'd
Speaker 12: say to look at the underside of the rug, the
Speaker 12: stain of the atmosphe.
Speaker 9: Yep, there isn't a mark on the floor.
Speaker 2: What's what? Now? Let me give you the explanation. Doctor,
Speaker 2: There is a second stain you see. Look, let me
Speaker 2: move this other edge.
Speaker 12: Now, then there's the stain on the woodwork beneath another
Speaker 12: part of the rag altogether.
Speaker 2: What do you make of that? Eh?
Speaker 5: Come, homes, you don't seem to be tanger this. Oh,
Speaker 5: it's it's simple enough. Surely the two stains did correspond.
Speaker 5: But the rugs being turned round is he homes?
Speaker 2: We hardly need.
Speaker 5: Mister Holmes's famous methods to tell us.
Speaker 2: That doctor washing. Now I heard this trade. Didn't you
Speaker 2: say that the constable out there had been in constant
Speaker 2: charge of this place? Yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well to take my baseless train, go out and
Speaker 5: examine him privately. Don't do it here before us we'll
Speaker 5: wait in this room. Ask him how he dares to
Speaker 5: admit strange people and leave them alone in this room.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't ask him, tell him take it for granted.
Speaker 2: What by short?
Speaker 11: If he has, I'll get it out of him. You mean,
Speaker 11: I mean hurry man, right, sir, I'll do it at
Speaker 11: once now, then, Watson, in Heaven's name, get off that rug?
Speaker 2: What home?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 9: What do you mean the rug?
Speaker 2: Pull away the rug? Huh? Turn it right there? Huh?
Speaker 5: Now quick, examine the flaw underneath it. There must be
Speaker 5: a cavity here, cavity?
Speaker 2: What do you mean, Holmes? The boards man, the brawboards? Huh?
Speaker 2: Look for a loose one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I've got it. What's more, it's a hole.
Speaker 5: It's a kind of kind of safe yah ah, but
Speaker 5: it's empty.
Speaker 2: I might have known.
Speaker 5: Get the rugged place again quickly, Watson, the straight's coming.
Speaker 2: Back, quick, quick, coming off. That's what well you are, right,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes, my person. He has confessed. I'm sorry, sir,
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry. I never meant any harm I never
Speaker 2: said you did. What happened?
Speaker 9: A young woman, sir, came to the door last night.
Speaker 2: It was and the stoke the house. She said, and
Speaker 2: then we got talking. It's kind of lonesome when you're
Speaker 2: inducing you know, well.
Speaker 5: Man, speak up. So she asked if she could see
Speaker 5: where the crime was done. I didn't see any harm
Speaker 5: if she just had a beep and she let her
Speaker 5: in here. Eh, well, she said, she's cooking way, sir.
Speaker 5: Then when she saw the blood you see, yes, yes,
Speaker 5: she kind of fainted, sir, right down on the rug
Speaker 5: here to tree indeed.
Speaker 2: And so you went to get some water. I suppose
Speaker 2: to bring her round.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, from the kitchen downstairs. And she was all
Speaker 5: right when I came back, and then she went away.
Speaker 5: I didn't mean any harm, sir, I don't know my person.
Speaker 5: Did you notice anything about the rug when you came back?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 5: The rag still it was a big kind of rumpled
Speaker 5: because she fell. So I just straightened exhorted. I see Macpherson,
Speaker 5: come over here, would you. I want to show you something.
Speaker 5: Just excuse me a moment, gentleman. Now look here, Macpherson,
Speaker 5: this photograph.
Speaker 2: You recognize it? Good lord? Yes, sir, how did you know?
Speaker 2: Never mind?
Speaker 5: Come Watson, thank you, Thank you, comfortable Macpherson. You've inspired
Speaker 5: me man, and perhaps you've saved your country too. Right,
Speaker 5: Look here, mister you too less trait of course, my
Speaker 5: best congratulations, Good day, gentlemen, congratulations, good day.
Speaker 2: I had it after him. He was at his most typical,
Speaker 2: He's most.
Speaker 3: Excited, as he was at the climax of all his
Speaker 3: great solutions. I could only marvel, could only share the
Speaker 3: excitement of the extraordinary man by my side as we
Speaker 3: were ushered into the Great House in Whitehall Terrace and
Speaker 3: waited for Lady Hilda.
Speaker 4: This is surely most unstair, and i'm i am told
Speaker 4: you to keep our business relations with secret.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, Lady Hilda, I had no possible alternative but to
Speaker 5: visit you in pursuit of my commission from the Prime Minister.
Speaker 2: How do you mean I know everything, Lady Hilda. I
Speaker 2: know of your visit to Eduardo Lucas when you gave
Speaker 2: him that document.
Speaker 5: I know two of your ingenious returned to his room
Speaker 5: last night, and the device which you used to get
Speaker 5: the letter back again from its hiding place under the rug.
Speaker 4: You're mad, mister Holmer.
Speaker 2: No, no, Lady Hilda, I have no wish to cause
Speaker 2: you pain or to reproach you for your rash behavior.
Speaker 2: But the policeman on duty recognized you from the photograph
Speaker 2: that I showed him. Yes, yes, it's true. Why did
Speaker 2: you take it? Madam? Quickly? Quickly?
Speaker 4: The time is short, Leckneil a letter I wrote long
Speaker 4: ago when I was a girl. It was all as understanding,
Speaker 4: but if it had come into my husband's hands, it
Speaker 4: would have broken his heart.
Speaker 2: Lucas got hold of that somehow.
Speaker 4: Yes, I had no idea. He was such a hands
Speaker 4: He always seems so charming. Then one day he told
Speaker 4: me that he had that letter of mine and.
Speaker 2: That I could only have a tacky.
Speaker 4: But I took him in exchange a certain documents from
Speaker 4: my husband's fetch box. That's any one you see on
Speaker 4: the dead there.
Speaker 2: Well, he said it was all quite harmless, that a
Speaker 2: kind of joke.
Speaker 4: I was nearly demented with sea. I took an impression
Speaker 4: of the key, and Lucas had a duplicate maid, and I.
Speaker 2: Took the paper to his house. And what happened there,
Speaker 2: Lady Hilda, It was like a horrible duty.
Speaker 4: As I went in, I saw a woman watching the house,
Speaker 4: a strange dark woman. I gave Lucas the paper and.
Speaker 2: He gave me my letter.
Speaker 4: Then there was a sound at the door, and Lucas
Speaker 4: pulled back the rug and pushed the paper into a
Speaker 4: hiding place there.
Speaker 2: And then the door burst open and the woman came in,
Speaker 2: the one I'd seen outside.
Speaker 4: She was screaming something about at last I found you
Speaker 4: with her. So I ran out in a panic, and
Speaker 4: the last I saw was that she snatched the dagger
Speaker 4: down from the wall and was rushing at him like
Speaker 4: a wild cat.
Speaker 2: To home. I can't go off. You must, lady Hilda.
Speaker 5: I suppose you realize next day if the paper was
Speaker 5: more important than you thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, that is why I came to you. I
Speaker 4: saw a ruined facing it, the whole world in arms
Speaker 4: because of my selfishness. And then I thought the Lucas did,
Speaker 4: the paper would still be in his hiding place. Don't
Speaker 4: you know how I went to the house again last
Speaker 4: night and got it back by a trick.
Speaker 2: Somebody is coming home, my husband. I know his deep Oh,
Speaker 2: I can't face him.
Speaker 4: What should I do?
Speaker 2: Told your story? Well, lady Hilda, quickly give me the
Speaker 2: letter and the key. Yes it is, thank you. Watson
Speaker 2: passed me the dispatch box.
Speaker 5: Now yeah, down among the other papers yet deep down, good, good, ah,
Speaker 5: we are ready for you.
Speaker 2: Go quickly, Lady Hilda, you have a door there. Compose yourself.
Speaker 2: All will be well. Heaven, heavens Lets you go me.
Speaker 5: Homes, my dear homes that was slended, splended. Oh, mister Holmes,
Speaker 5: they told me you're here.
Speaker 2: What news have you? I have good news, sir. What
Speaker 2: Lord Bellinger you here? You mean you have the paper,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes, Not yet, my lord, that is why I
Speaker 2: am here. What do you mean.
Speaker 6: I'm not convinced, mister Hope, that the paper has ever
Speaker 6: left this house at all, but it's impossible.
Speaker 2: If it had, it would have been made public by
Speaker 2: this time. No, gentleman, it's still here. I think you
Speaker 2: have my assurance that it left the box. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: I'm not convinced, ephen about who come? Miss? Joking is
Speaker 2: still timed. It's unworthy of you. The box is there, Hope.
Speaker 9: It's easily enough decided, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: If you're joking on such.
Speaker 5: An issue, you never joke, Lord Bellinger, as doctor Watson
Speaker 5: will tell you in your serve.
Speaker 2: A spot from Lord Meadow and memorandum from bell Grade
Speaker 2: note from Madrid reports with my Lord, my Lord the
Speaker 2: Blue envelope.
Speaker 6: And the letter intact. It's inconceivable and you're a sorcerer,
Speaker 6: mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: How did you know it was there? Because I knew
Speaker 2: it could be no wall, I must tell my wife Hill.
Speaker 2: There hear them, my dear all will.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, Oh, mister sher Lock Holmes, there's more in
Speaker 7: this than meet the either.
Speaker 2: How did this gander?
Speaker 5: How you must allow us, Sir, to keep our little
Speaker 5: diplomatic secret.
Speaker 2: Good day to you, my lord. I am always at
Speaker 2: your service and at the service of my country. Come what.
Speaker 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories
Speaker 1: of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been dramatized on you,
Speaker 1: with original music composed by Sidney Cotch. Sir Ralph Richardson
Speaker 1: played the part of Doctor Watson and Sir John Gildgod
Speaker 1: that of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 8: The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers, a
Speaker 4: Bold