Speaker 1: We return again to Phyllis White, who had some more
Speaker 1: delightful information about the shell Lockholmes radio broadcasts.
Speaker 2: Willis Rathbone and Bruce were making films and they had
Speaker 2: just one day off per week for the radio work.
Speaker 2: They received the scripts a couple of days early to
Speaker 2: look over if they had time, and they would turn
Speaker 2: up at the studio every the afternoon of broadcast day.
Speaker 2: The first reading would be rather slow and broken up
Speaker 2: as there was discussion and maybe a few changes. Then
Speaker 2: there would be a reading for timing to fit to
Speaker 2: the exact number, and then it's available. It was more
Speaker 2: likely to be too long than too short. Edna would
Speaker 2: flip over a few pages out a couple of words
Speaker 2: here and a couple on another page, and it would
Speaker 2: miraculously come out exact to a minute. And so they
Speaker 2: went through the rest of the afternoon. The tempo and
Speaker 2: pressure increase and the show sharpened up. At the end
Speaker 2: of the afternoon they went on the air for the
Speaker 2: Eastern United States. Then there was a couple of hours
Speaker 2: break and everybody would go out to dinner. Then they
Speaker 2: would come back and do it all over again for
Speaker 2: the West Coast.
Speaker 3: I feel very.
Speaker 2: Thankful now that these live and ephemeral shows were captured
Speaker 2: on disk and that they could now reach a new audience.
Speaker 1: Now he's going to listen. I as we listened to
Speaker 1: the Iron Box.
Speaker 4: This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
Speaker 4: transmitted to our men and women overseas by short wave
Speaker 4: and the world wide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 5: Pat pre Wine brings you.
Speaker 4: Dazzle, Left Bone and Nigel Bruce the new adventures of
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Speaker 4: to bring you good wine, invites you to listen to
Speaker 4: Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared with
Speaker 4: his old friends at Master Detective Cherlock Hole. Well, this
Speaker 4: is New Year's Eve, and I wish you could be
Speaker 4: here with us this evening so we could toast each
Speaker 4: other with a glad Petrie California Port. As you know,
Speaker 4: fort wine has long been a favorite wine for celebrating
Speaker 4: a happy occasion. That's because port is a wine rich
Speaker 4: in tradition, and you couldn't ask for a more delicious port. Petreport.
Speaker 4: Petre Port is a deep, glowing red color, beautiful to
Speaker 4: look at and wonderful to taste, with a hearty full flavor.
Speaker 4: That's right from the heart of the great And when
Speaker 4: you serve petri port to your friends tonight or any time,
Speaker 4: remember you can serve it proudly because the name Tree
Speaker 4: is the proudest name in the history of a muk
Speaker 4: and wine. And now I'm sure Doctor Watson's waiting for us,
Speaker 4: so let's drop in and see.
Speaker 5: Good evening doctor.
Speaker 3: He was about out draw up your usual chair.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, did you enjoy the Christmas holidays?
Speaker 4: Well, I've I've had a whale of a time, thank you,
Speaker 4: but I don't think I can face a turkey or
Speaker 4: immense pie for at least another year.
Speaker 5: How about you?
Speaker 6: Doctor boy had a very pleasant week too, my boy
Speaker 6: Foxy's visitors.
Speaker 3: The fletching number of Christmas messages to.
Speaker 5: Say you got a new pipe?
Speaker 3: Is that a Christmas present? You pipe?
Speaker 6: You, tobacco pouch and a pound of my favorite tobacco,
Speaker 6: all of them sent me from London by old pounds
Speaker 6: and a friend of mine to Ian Dunbar.
Speaker 4: No, Pian, huh, Well do you mean he was one
Speaker 4: of your patients? Or was he someone that you in
Speaker 4: the Great shore CON's help.
Speaker 3: The latter, mister boutell. As a matter of fact, it
Speaker 3: was receiving this gift that reminded me of the spread.
Speaker 6: I decided to tell you tonight the story in which
Speaker 6: I and Dunbar played a prominent.
Speaker 5: Five and had ada up again.
Speaker 6: The day before New Year's Eve in eighteen hundred and
Speaker 6: ninety nine, Chilock Holmes and I sat in opposite corners.
Speaker 3: Of the first cast wor overcarriage.
Speaker 6: We sped towards Edinburgh in applying Scotsman, what's.
Speaker 3: Up to you?
Speaker 5: And slock Corn's up there?
Speaker 3: Doctor? It started off as a holidays botel.
Speaker 6: My old friend, Sir Walter Dunbar lasked Holmes and me
Speaker 6: to spend a few days with him at Dunbar Castle,
Speaker 6: about twenty miles outside Edinburgh.
Speaker 3: After we left King's.
Speaker 6: Cross Station, Holmes, his sharp, eager face framed in his
Speaker 6: dear'stocking cap, dipped into the bundle.
Speaker 3: Of fresh papers and she brought with him.
Speaker 6: We left Bedford far behind us before he thrust the
Speaker 6: last one of them under the seat, leaned across.
Speaker 3: And offered me his cigar.
Speaker 7: Care for the guy?
Speaker 8: What's no well, I'll stick to the pipe flying Scotsman's
Speaker 8: living up to its name, and they're going splendidly present
Speaker 8: three and a half miles an hour. I haven't noticed
Speaker 8: the quarter mile pot, nor have I but the telegraph
Speaker 8: first on this night, he adds passed to the aid
Speaker 8: of a watch.
Speaker 3: The calculation is.
Speaker 5: A simple one. What's in my dea p home? We
Speaker 5: have several hours ahead of us. Now, tell me more
Speaker 5: about the valse at Dunbar. I have a feeling that
Speaker 5: he is in some kind of trouble. If you haven't
Speaker 5: want to talk about him.
Speaker 6: It's not exactly trouble homes, but there's a strange problem
Speaker 6: that confronts the Dunbar The problem it will be settled
Speaker 6: at midnight.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow night, a New Year's even He is exactly.
Speaker 6: But to really appreciate the story, I have to begin
Speaker 6: by telling you the death of rol Sir Thomas Dunbar.
Speaker 5: The father of the present.
Speaker 6: He was severely wounded in Waterloo, though he managed to
Speaker 6: last that long enough to get back to Dunbar Castle.
Speaker 6: The story goes that as he lay there on his
Speaker 6: death said he told his wife of his plans.
Speaker 9: Didn't agree with last I touched the buron that's you
Speaker 9: home from Waterloo.
Speaker 5: But if I wound as well.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm not afraid to die. All the niggles me
Speaker 9: is that I shall never see the child you bear.
Speaker 5: So what will Scott know? Coming here?
Speaker 9: Hey, Jenny, he visit the death spell of.
Speaker 1: His old friend.
Speaker 3: Now who's there? I didn't use handhimur Doc, it's me.
Speaker 9: I'm leaving an unburned senday handy when I die. I
Speaker 9: don't trust women, or children or thanks for that matter.
Speaker 9: But the best part of the wealth of gold in
Speaker 9: the big iron box you'll find under the bed. The
Speaker 9: money's there. I am something else for her any day.
Speaker 9: You have to keep that boxing. Trust for me, Sandy.
Speaker 9: You can turn it down to my boy and the
Speaker 9: New Year's eve before his twenty first birthday, and he'll
Speaker 9: be a man and wise.
Speaker 5: Enough to know how to use it.
Speaker 3: Do you understand? Tell me right?
Speaker 5: That was what's the Baron's a girl?
Speaker 1: Girl?
Speaker 9: I'll tell you to be a boy and we'll name
Speaker 9: him Walter rest my good friend.
Speaker 3: So Walter Scott.
Speaker 5: The interesting story Watson, and that child, of course is
Speaker 5: the gentleman we are going to see now? Is Walter
Speaker 5: done done?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 5: And the first baronet was a friend of Subalter Scott.
Speaker 5: While his son conversed to your acquaintance. Why, sir, it's
Speaker 5: a family singular rich in literary friendship and it's not going.
Speaker 3: To at home continue. I suppose you can guess what happened.
Speaker 6: To Thomas Keff drew up a document to stressfy the
Speaker 6: New Year's eve before the Baronet's twenty first versay, and
Speaker 6: the poor child was born on February twenty ninth.
Speaker 5: The boys and Walter is waiting for his arm box
Speaker 5: for a goal.
Speaker 6: He'll be eighty four next year and yet legally the
Speaker 6: only one birthday every four years.
Speaker 3: And near as the law he.
Speaker 5: Was the most amazing situation, though I'm afraid Sir Water
Speaker 5: finds it far from entertaining. The lawyers must have been
Speaker 5: extremely scrupulous and abiding by the letter of the documentary.
Speaker 6: Though Sandy Murdock is dead now, of course, but he
Speaker 6: too is a great grandson, William Murdock, who still handles
Speaker 6: the Dunbar estate. He'll be at the castle tonight to
Speaker 6: formally hand over the iron buck.
Speaker 5: I'm delighted to accept the holiday in pertation so well
Speaker 5: that mandear hello, I've needed a rest but always loathed
Speaker 5: two stricter ones. This situation may pose a nice little
Speaker 5: problem from me.
Speaker 3: Problem.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm reasonably certain the agents of water Dunbar will
Speaker 5: need to get his iron box full of gold on
Speaker 5: this New Year's Eve. There, but we will be old fellow.
Speaker 3: We shall see doctor Watson.
Speaker 10: I'm glad to see you and mister Malms here as
Speaker 10: the captain.
Speaker 3: Thank you, My boy Holmes is is Ian Dunbar Walters grands.
Speaker 5: How do you do, mister dun Dan.
Speaker 10: I'm very proud to meet you.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: I've heard those about you.
Speaker 10: My grandfather will be down in a few moments.
Speaker 5: Let's go into the library, shall we.
Speaker 6: I imagine the Wolters quite excited about that ceremony, isn't he?
Speaker 10: Wouldn't you be if you'd waited sixty three years too
Speaker 10: long for an inheritance back to the Lord. I have
Speaker 10: the force to be born on the prosaic date in
Speaker 10: August and twenty first.
Speaker 5: Even if your grandfather is dead, you were to the
Speaker 5: next donnet jayad Yes, mister Holmes, you see my father
Speaker 5: was killed two months ago at Mappati.
Speaker 3: Yes if I read about it in the papers, my boy,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sorry.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Doctor.
Speaker 10: The opening of the box isn't going to be the
Speaker 10: only ceremony At midnight, Dorothy and I are announcing an engagement.
Speaker 5: Dorothy small See and her father are staying here too.
Speaker 3: My congratulations is indeed indeed man too. Thank you.
Speaker 5: It's it's been quite sattle with a though he's a
Speaker 5: businessman and isn't impressed with titles.
Speaker 10: When they asked the company by a suitable income. When
Speaker 10: we told him about the inheritance, Peter len didn't give
Speaker 10: his consent. Ah, here's Dorothy now, Dorothy Darling, I want
Speaker 10: you to meet two friends of mine, mister Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 10: and doctor Watson.
Speaker 11: How do you do now?
Speaker 3: How have you been? Small? How are you, my dear?
Speaker 3: From what this young man's been telling us? I gather
Speaker 3: the congratulations in order thank you.
Speaker 11: I finally persuaded father that Ian would make a word
Speaker 11: of son in law. For a while I was afraid
Speaker 11: we'd have to look for gret the bee leave in
Speaker 11: a cottage on bread and cheese and law. But raise
Speaker 11: a torrental rash, just.
Speaker 5: As they do in the story books.
Speaker 3: Oh, sir Walter, there you are. What's the dear boy?
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 5: And this must be your friends? That very well for
Speaker 5: a young nipper who twenty one at midnight. Oh gentlemen,
Speaker 5: may I introduce mister Herbert Small.
Speaker 6: I believe that we have congratulated you on the engagement
Speaker 6: of your daughter.
Speaker 12: That was the post to remain a secret undtle midnight
Speaker 12: the Dunbar box was finally helping. Gonna be grouty, Herbert.
Speaker 12: The children are in law and I'm going to settle
Speaker 12: money on Ian and it's New Year's Eve that sends
Speaker 12: her into the spirit of the occasion. Bring out the
Speaker 12: glasses in. I've had some bottles at my special pride
Speaker 12: put out. It's got kindest sport in Scotland. The cream
Speaker 12: of Dunbar. My father laid the first bottle down the
Speaker 12: year before it was born, and the drink of the
Speaker 12: brew will surely warm the cockers.
Speaker 3: Thet oh, my mouse working your will is wold? When
Speaker 3: is this the lawyer?
Speaker 12: Fellow young Murdock an here any moment her as soon
Speaker 12: as he arrives dinner that we'll be ready for the
Speaker 12: evening ceremony.
Speaker 5: You're bringing the famous iron box within some modern.
Speaker 12: If he doesn't, they won't get in the dinner homes
Speaker 12: Ian past the glasses around my boy ah, Herry, Oh
Speaker 12: you've got the box. We see now the party is complete. Oh,
Speaker 12: it means to reduce you.
Speaker 5: It's small her father, mister Small, my grandson Ian you know,
Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes, doctor Watson.
Speaker 12: I laid the world up my frame with delay. Oh
Speaker 12: that's all right, my doc. You're here and you brought
Speaker 12: the box. That's all that matters.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: You are a young lawyer.
Speaker 5: Drink here.
Speaker 12: I'll help you for it.
Speaker 3: I must say that this is our exciting homes of
Speaker 3: famous ron box with its inheritance of gold. Yes, and
Speaker 3: from the size of the.
Speaker 5: Box of the rough yes, the estimated it's cubic content
Speaker 5: in gold at around five thousand pounds. Not about some
Speaker 5: perhaps a businessman like mister Small, but a windfall to
Speaker 5: an impecuniar Scotch that I do a strong young man,
Speaker 5: mister Murdoch, I'd have been strong home. A box that
Speaker 5: size full of golden sovereigns would weigh considerable amounts. And
Speaker 5: yet the lawyer carried it single handed. All that we're
Speaker 5: all assembled, I'm going to proposal.
Speaker 3: It's still summers off.
Speaker 5: Yet, let's drink to the new year means a lot
Speaker 5: to some of us.
Speaker 11: Nineteen we should chose more than just nineteen hundreds to water.
Speaker 11: We should drink to the new setue that's about to begin.
Speaker 3: Good idea.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm afraid that wouldn't be quite appropriateness Small to
Speaker 6: the accurate.
Speaker 3: The prettieth century won't begin.
Speaker 6: Until January the first, nineteen hundred and one, not nineteen hundred.
Speaker 5: Of course, that's got they. I'm afraid your wedding can't
Speaker 5: take place some time.
Speaker 3: Yet, father, What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: I read an article to God in the other day
Speaker 4: that said just the same thing as you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4: And what's more, it said something even more important. It's
Speaker 4: said that nineteen hundred is not a leapia rubbish leapier
Speaker 4: comes every four years.
Speaker 5: There was one in eighteen ninety six, and obviously nineteen.
Speaker 3: Hundred is one.
Speaker 5: I think mister Small may be right, But you say,
Speaker 5: mister hous do you know well? I hope no one
Speaker 5: would bring up this point. But it's the little problem
Speaker 5: I referred to on the train. My dear what womber
Speaker 5: for heaven's sake?
Speaker 12: Answer it is nineteen hundred of a leap yer.
Speaker 5: No, I'm afraid it's not, sir Walter, No, because of
Speaker 5: a slight indalance that would otherwise and be produced in
Speaker 5: the calendar of the even century. Years and its divisible
Speaker 5: by four hundred are leap yeers. In other words, sixteen
Speaker 5: hundred with alypier, the year two thousand will be alypier,
Speaker 5: but eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred are not sleepiers.
Speaker 3: Then you have no birthday next year.
Speaker 5: So Walter, and I'm afraid I can't open the buck tonight.
Speaker 11: And the dun bars won't get their inhabitants.
Speaker 4: You, my dear, don't marry for a few more years
Speaker 4: if I won't alive with Merria.
Speaker 5: Mister Hornsey, you sure of your fact. I'm very much
Speaker 5: afraid that I am a man.
Speaker 3: Oh this is terrible.
Speaker 5: I kind of stud anymore.
Speaker 3: Nna, don't take it too badly. Smaller here, Yeah, think this,
Speaker 3: that's it, after all, you only have to wait it
Speaker 3: for four years.
Speaker 5: Another four years at my age, young man, at my age,
Speaker 5: I shall.
Speaker 9: Never live that long.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 3: Angles? So I got out of time, A miserable meal home,
Speaker 3: the walls has gone to his room, the young.
Speaker 6: Lovers a million tiers small, and the loyal Murder seemed
Speaker 6: to be positively gloating.
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Hales new Yeah, but got us at least
Speaker 5: make the best of it. I think I'll go and
Speaker 5: have a clock that, Sir Walter and you my dat chat.
Speaker 5: Why not try and cheer up the young folks some
Speaker 5: of your experiences.
Speaker 3: And quite no del join you in the library. Call
Speaker 3: me if you want them. Ah, there you are, my dear,
Speaker 3: all alone in front of the fire.
Speaker 10: I'm afraid we are not in very good spirits.
Speaker 6: Nevertheless, I'll sit down here and join you if you
Speaker 6: don't mind. Misery loves company.
Speaker 11: So very kind of IM just trying to persuade he
Speaker 11: and to elope with me. But he's doing most gallant.
Speaker 11: You won't even considerable?
Speaker 10: How can I, darling, I've got under two hundred pounds
Speaker 10: a year of my own right, how could we live
Speaker 10: on that?
Speaker 5: I was counting money the grandfather was going to give
Speaker 5: us to get me startled.
Speaker 3: Now now I'm as small. A little earlier you talked
Speaker 3: to break the green and bread and cheese and loving
Speaker 3: a cottage. Yes, there's a lot to be said for it,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: I had to be said for it.
Speaker 10: Yes, but have you ever tried it?
Speaker 3: Not? Litom a boy?
Speaker 13: But I've married and my wife and I was married.
Speaker 13: I had a little money. In fact, my income was
Speaker 13: just about the sun that you mentioned, and we were
Speaker 13: very happy.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 5: You have a profession, doctor, Look at me.
Speaker 10: I've been trained for nothing except to be lead of
Speaker 10: Dunbar Castle. I can't support a wife on tradition, but.
Speaker 11: You're young and you can get some kind of position.
Speaker 3: I should, of course. Of course, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I think that what is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 5: The devil's work of Fort Watson? Come with me, Old
Speaker 5: Tom and you, mister Dunbar. Which was wrong? It was
Speaker 5: in darkness, but in the moon I saw two figures
Speaker 5: struggling by the open case. One of them was the water.
Speaker 5: As I entered, he disappeared from sight his attacker that
Speaker 5: pushed him out of the window into the moat. Okay,
Speaker 5: you have an angle away in the darkness. We just
Speaker 5: kept lanterns and go out for the most at once. Though,
Speaker 5: I'm very much afraid, mister Dunbar, that your grandfather is
Speaker 5: beyond our health.
Speaker 4: Doctor Watson will be back in just a second, so
Speaker 4: i'd just like to remind you that if you want
Speaker 4: to serve a wine over the holidays, that you're sure
Speaker 4: the ladies will enjoy serve Petrie California muscatel. Petrie Muscatel
Speaker 4: is a golden wine with a wonderful flavor, the flavor
Speaker 4: of big, plump muscat grapes.
Speaker 5: And you know what a flavor that's.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you'll find that Petrie musketell is the favorite
Speaker 4: wine of all women, just as petre port is the
Speaker 4: favorite wine with men. And incidentally, if you're not sure
Speaker 4: which to get Petrie Muscatel or petre Port, don't buy one,
Speaker 4: buy two, get.
Speaker 5: Them both, and you'll be sure to please everyone.
Speaker 4: Now, to get back to our story, someone had pushed
Speaker 4: poor old Sir Walter out of his bedroom window and
Speaker 4: enter the moat below.
Speaker 5: Isn't that right, doctor Watson?
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, speak grab lanterns.
Speaker 6: As first we couldn't rush outside, but it was a
Speaker 6: hopeless cause the water was eight or ten feet deep,
Speaker 6: and it seemed obvious that the elderness of water wouldn't
Speaker 6: have a chance of saving himself. If you searched on
Speaker 6: the thicker bobbing lanterns, the cunning figures in the foster
Speaker 6: moonlight forming a weird.
Speaker 3: Bring you answer over here, sir? Can you see anything home?
Speaker 3: A thing?
Speaker 5: I don't see why your friend doesn't call the police.
Speaker 5: Doctor Watson's accomplishing nothing.
Speaker 6: You thought them out there chance of finding the old
Speaker 6: man alive, mister Small, he wants to void a scandal
Speaker 6: as possible.
Speaker 3: Forssake, Sir, as well as the Dunbar scandal.
Speaker 5: Can't touch me or Dorothy over this. Her engagement will
Speaker 5: never announced.
Speaker 3: And it's a big citicide to think some new blood
Speaker 3: in your family would be a great.
Speaker 6: Improvement or being poverty impressonedent and you be can panda
Speaker 6: hat the sir, well homes have you given up hope?
Speaker 5: And Pep will never find him in that dragness and
Speaker 5: wrapping hooks. I have to call the police. What time
Speaker 5: is it, sat Ian?
Speaker 3: You know the time? What did you call me, mister Holmes?
Speaker 6: So, yes, Hi, you're yours, just seem a bit your homes,
Speaker 6: But of course you're right. If your poor grandfather's dead,
Speaker 6: mister Dunbar, you're a baronet.
Speaker 5: Now and the time set in it's it's a court
Speaker 5: to the twelve, mister hark Quart out of an hour
Speaker 5: to the new year. So yeah, doesn't that thanks for
Speaker 5: guest something to you, Yes, yes it does. So I'm
Speaker 5: the new baronet hammer.
Speaker 10: They weren't. There'll be no more talk of the police
Speaker 10: for fifteen minutes. I want all of you to come
Speaker 10: back to the castle with as the last time of
Speaker 10: midnight brings out, I shall have a statement to me,
Speaker 10: a statement that I want you all to hear.
Speaker 3: What you bought it over here for home, something very
Speaker 3: funny going on.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you I.
Speaker 5: Don't like bollecoman, and I watched some like to look
Speaker 5: at it very much.
Speaker 3: If you wouldn't be said, that's mysterious. What are you
Speaker 3: up to? You haven't taken a stip yet towards finding
Speaker 3: the murderer.
Speaker 5: And I wonder what God is the He's the perspiration
Speaker 5: on this small brown molument.
Speaker 3: It's small.
Speaker 5: I wonder what pause is a singular look of apprehension
Speaker 5: on the face of murderch young lawyer. You remember, of course,
Speaker 5: on my remarking how easily he carried a large iron
Speaker 5: Boxers go.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it took a strong man to throw the
Speaker 3: water out of the window.
Speaker 5: New Years approaching, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 10: In view of our recent tragedy, this is one New
Speaker 10: Year's Eve when none of us feels like song and
Speaker 10: jollocky but there still remains a ritual duty for me
Speaker 10: to perform.
Speaker 5: Mister Murdock, open the iron box please, but I can't
Speaker 5: do that. It was only to be open for your grandfather, No,
Speaker 5: mister Murder.
Speaker 10: The phrase was that it was to be opened on
Speaker 10: the New Year's Eve before the baronet's twenty first birthday.
Speaker 10: I am now the baronet, and I shall be twenty
Speaker 10: one next year on August twenty first.
Speaker 5: Open the box, please, mister Murder in Johning, how fast
Speaker 5: you can. I'm glad. I hope you think of it. Three, Murder,
Speaker 5: open that box very well. I'll tell you when I'm
Speaker 5: a prayer in for something of a shock.
Speaker 3: Scuty.
Speaker 5: The box is empty except for a sheet of notepaper
Speaker 5: in the bottom. What's the meaning of this murder? Read
Speaker 5: that paper, Serena, and you'll understand I owe you four
Speaker 5: thousand sovereigns.
Speaker 10: And it signed Alexander Murder on behalf of Murder Murder. Lawyers,
Speaker 10: you'd better explain this.
Speaker 7: It's the family skeleton, serene That notice signed from a
Speaker 7: great grandfather, the one that witnessed the original deconcern in
Speaker 7: the box as soon as the water was born on
Speaker 7: that February the twenty ninth. My great grandfather realized the
Speaker 7: money wouldn't have.
Speaker 5: To be produced for eighty four years, and so he
Speaker 5: stole it.
Speaker 12: He bothered it.
Speaker 5: He always intended to pick back, but he was never
Speaker 5: able to. When he died, he told my father of
Speaker 5: his secret.
Speaker 7: My father, in turn told me, We've always planned to
Speaker 7: put back the money, Seren, but we've never been able to.
Speaker 5: This is daylight robbery. You would prosecute me and the
Speaker 5: firm still in business. You can ruin them, You can
Speaker 5: sue them for every day there, mister Small, they've already
Speaker 5: shown a marked version from my family. I suggest you
Speaker 5: allow me to handle their affairs here.
Speaker 6: You got.
Speaker 10: No one's going to their room, no one's leaving here
Speaker 10: until the police arrives.
Speaker 5: I'm convinced that one.
Speaker 10: Of you murdered my grandfather tonight.
Speaker 3: If you ask me, it's obvious who that someone is.
Speaker 3: Who doctor, what's used to murder? You came here telling
Speaker 3: to kill Pearl to.
Speaker 6: Walter because you never intended to open that buff You thought.
Speaker 3: That your sid would die with him. That's a lie.
Speaker 7: I was going to tell him everything and then ask
Speaker 7: for time pay the money.
Speaker 5: I didn't kill Gorse he didn't. There's your murderer, You
Speaker 5: your Sophia father. What you say?
Speaker 4: I am saying that he and the murderer he saw
Speaker 4: that the buck wasn't going to be opened for another
Speaker 4: four years. He realized how the money couldn't marry Dorothy,
Speaker 4: so he killed his grandfather.
Speaker 5: And then order the box opened.
Speaker 3: You're trying to cover yourself.
Speaker 10: You push grandfather out of that window tonight. You thought
Speaker 10: that if he died, the box would never be opened.
Speaker 10: Dorothy couldn'trry me.
Speaker 6: You can't speak on.
Speaker 3: My soul homes. You seem remarkably calm, And I.
Speaker 5: Must say I'm absolutely fascinated by listening to three people
Speaker 5: and accusing each other of murder and each of them
Speaker 5: producing perfectly sound not it is. It's a remarkable example
Speaker 5: of the dangers of reasoning from motive alone. We should
Speaker 5: prop it by experience.
Speaker 11: What, mister Holms, how can you be so calm?
Speaker 5: There's a murderer in this room is getting the glaud
Speaker 5: of hand this small let's conclude it. You'll ta come
Speaker 5: out now.
Speaker 3: It's moving new year for your grandfather. So what am
Speaker 3: I sing?
Speaker 1: Go?
Speaker 5: And what kind of a game have you been playing
Speaker 5: in the bunny game that Holmes and I invented. You
Speaker 5: might call it forcing the issue.
Speaker 12: I was determined to have the box open before the
Speaker 12: next four years world, whilst there was still alive to
Speaker 12: look inside it. But the prickery of your family murder
Speaker 12: has made me a very happy.
Speaker 7: Mass Or what if I shall pay back some money
Speaker 7: in a few years, I swear.
Speaker 12: I will'll be too late to do me in a
Speaker 12: good but I'll take care of it in get it
Speaker 12: half a mind of passu, grandfather.
Speaker 5: The money isn't important now that you're all You were
Speaker 5: content on it just the same, my boy. So that
Speaker 5: you got married Dorothy, I know that she will never
Speaker 5: marry a pauper. I will allowed when.
Speaker 11: I'm twenty one.
Speaker 2: You can't start me, father, and I am going to
Speaker 2: marry me.
Speaker 4: Quiet what it's a very unsavory business. I think that
Speaker 4: you owe us an explanation of your behavior to night.
Speaker 3: You tell him, Holmes, I Farcy, we drew up a
Speaker 3: cream of dunbar.
Speaker 5: Watching your search from a body in the motor's made
Speaker 5: me perfectly. The explanation is a very simple one, Ladies
Speaker 5: and gentlemen. When you arrived here to night, mister Murdock.
Speaker 5: I knew from the way you handled the box that
Speaker 5: it could not contain the sum of gold the supposed to,
Speaker 5: and so.
Speaker 6: You suspected Paul and advised the plan to.
Speaker 3: Post the opening of the box.
Speaker 5: Yes, and sir Walter was an eager conspirator, of course
Speaker 5: I was ian Is twenty one next August. Supposing poison,
Speaker 5: I have died after he came of age and before
Speaker 5: my next birthday four years. Hence the box would never
Speaker 5: have been opened, and so we invented the faith Miti story.
Speaker 5: By the way, Ian Amis, congratulate you for grasping the
Speaker 5: possibilities of the situation so speedily. If you hadn't demanded
Speaker 5: the opening of the box, the Murdoch's secret might still.
Speaker 3: Be a secret. The clear of plan homes are too
Speaker 3: bad that it had to have such a miserable ending.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that we have finished for the matter.
Speaker 5: And mister Murdoch, Yes, mister Holmes, you say that your
Speaker 5: family took four thousand pounds from that box. Yes, mister curious,
Speaker 5: I would have swarm from its size that it would
Speaker 5: hold closer to five thousand. And in your account of
Speaker 5: the legend, Watson, you told me that Sir Thomas Dundar
Speaker 5: stated on his deathbed that he had put something else
Speaker 5: in something for a rainy day?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 5: Did the Murdochs find that extra something? No, mister Holmes,
Speaker 5: they found but the gold, and that's very odd. I
Speaker 5: can't take a closer look at that box has been online.
Speaker 11: Since this seems to be a night of telling secrets.
Speaker 11: I think you might as well know, father, But if
Speaker 11: you don't give your consent, you.
Speaker 5: Such thing my old resolution, young lady, and that I
Speaker 5: had that people have been necessary.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Permit me to show you all the treasure of the
Speaker 5: Dundas What.
Speaker 3: Are your phone home?
Speaker 5: See something for a rainy day with old Sir Thomas?
Speaker 5: God you see, since the cubic contents of the box
Speaker 5: obviously differed from my calculations, I deduced the existence of
Speaker 5: a false bottom. I was correct, and in that space
Speaker 5: I found this.
Speaker 3: Manuscript.
Speaker 5: Fight So the manuscript of the book. Look at the
Speaker 5: title page and see the author's name his to the Dunbark.
Speaker 3: That's all Scott.
Speaker 5: I think, so, Walter, that an original and unpublished manuscript
Speaker 5: by your distinguished namesake would prove worth several times the
Speaker 5: go that is missing from that box. So you have
Speaker 5: spived the.
Speaker 3: Day for his homes my boy, Thank god, bless you.
Speaker 5: Oh this has been a stranger new year ever I.
Speaker 12: Knew, but it turned out to be a bunny one
Speaker 12: thanks to your home. Well, fill up their glasses. We're
Speaker 12: going to drink a toss to the new year.
Speaker 6: By Yes, Walter, this is really a happy occasion, and.
Speaker 3: Let's complete it.
Speaker 5: I singing the traditional song of the season, all zangs time,
Speaker 5: and in this case when we sing, should all acquaintance
Speaker 5: be for good? I feel the gna hearts. We should
Speaker 5: be thinking of Walter Scott. He died over sixty years ago.
Speaker 5: He's made us all very happy.
Speaker 4: Sure God, well, doctor, that turned out to be a
Speaker 4: very happy new year for all concerned. Yes, that's one
Speaker 4: new further, don'll never forget well, I's sure hope you'll
Speaker 4: always remember this one.
Speaker 3: So oh, this is taking my boy that goes for
Speaker 3: a class.
Speaker 6: Of porn fine the world to a to a happy
Speaker 6: new year, my boy, for you and for our many
Speaker 6: friends listening in and to.
Speaker 4: You, doctor, that's good. Doctor, hasn't d been a pleasant
Speaker 4: association for me? You're the best storyteller I've ever known,
Speaker 4: and the Patrie family makes the best wine I've ever tasted. Hope,
Speaker 4: just as they've been making wine for generations in the past,
Speaker 4: the Patrie family will continue to make fine wine.
Speaker 5: In the future.
Speaker 6: Oh, mister Bartel, I know that you'll always be here
Speaker 6: to tell us just how good that petty whine is.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I hope so, doctor, and I hope you'll always be
Speaker 4: right here beside me to tell another swell story about
Speaker 4: this doctor. What new adventure are you planning to tell
Speaker 4: us next week?
Speaker 6: Next week, mister Bartel, I'm going to tell you a
Speaker 6: weird story starts for the series of murders.
Speaker 3: On Hempstead Heat and then the battle to the death
Speaker 3: in the Burning Wexworks. I call it the Strange Case
Speaker 3: of the Murderer in Wex.
Speaker 4: Tonight's cherl O Corse adventure was written by Dennis Green
Speaker 4: and Anthony Boucher was suggested by an incident, and it's
Speaker 4: Arthur Conan Doyle story. The Silver Blazes music is by
Speaker 4: Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of Metro
Speaker 4: Golden Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Fictions,
Speaker 4: where they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Speaker 4: The Petrie Wind Company of San Francisco, California invites you
Speaker 4: to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
Speaker 4: is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family
Speaker 4: for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every
Speaker 4: Monday on most of these same stations at eight o'clock
Speaker 4: to Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes. This is
Speaker 4: the mutual broadcasting system.
Speaker 14: I would like to thank for this White for taking
Speaker 14: the time to tell us a doctor fair husband Anthony
Speaker 14: much and also about this great and those wonderful times
Speaker 14: not too long ago when Holmes and Watson.
Speaker 3: Were played by Rathbone and Bruce.
Speaker 1: The two episodes you have just hearded are part of
Speaker 1: the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Are in Battle Rattone
Speaker 1: and Nigel Bruce, and are in nineteen eighty eight copyrighted
Speaker 1: production of two twenty one A Baker Street Associates. The
Speaker 1: Sherlockholms stories and the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor
Speaker 1: John H. Watson created by Sir er Curnan Doyle and
Speaker 1: are used with the kind.
Speaker 3: Formation of Dame Gene Colnan Doyle. This is ben right.
Speaker 1: Won't you join me again sometime soon for two more
Speaker 1: new adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3: Thank you listening