Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, your memoir tonight is entitled The Adventure of
Speaker 1: the Three Garret Debs. Well, what in the world is
Speaker 1: a garret dead?
Speaker 2: Why that's a gentleman's name, mister Harris, and the peculiarity
Speaker 2: of the name mister Harris has a great deal to
Speaker 2: do with our story. Pose once said about the story
Speaker 2: that he didn't think in all our explorations of human complexities,
Speaker 2: we had ever come upon anything more singular. It was
Speaker 2: January eighteen ninety five on Waterloo Road at a gaming club.
Speaker 2: Two men were playing cards.
Speaker 3: No, you don't, Evans, that's not the card you buried
Speaker 3: in the deck.
Speaker 4: It certainly is, Prescott. You didn't show the six of clubs.
Speaker 4: You show the four of diamonds. I've been playing blackjack
Speaker 4: too long to be careless about such details.
Speaker 3: I said, I showed the four rotten double dealing faker.
Speaker 3: Why cheap, dirty month.
Speaker 4: You must have been cheating all along. I want my
Speaker 4: money back, every bit of it, and I want it now. Also,
Speaker 4: help me out break your neck.
Speaker 3: You know I played fair. You just want your money
Speaker 3: because you can't stand loose.
Speaker 2: Give me that money.
Speaker 3: I'll give you this. So you carry a gun brascoda, Well,
Speaker 3: if you like fireworks.
Speaker 2: Following that exchange of shots, Roger Prescott dued and his
Speaker 2: gambling partner, Killer Evans, who'd been quicker at the draw,
Speaker 2: served six years in prison. It was a short sentence
Speaker 2: because he proved Prescott drew a revolver first and that
Speaker 2: he had shot in self defense. After his term was over,
Speaker 2: Evans disappeared into the dim, fog bound world of men
Speaker 2: released from prison. One morning in late June of nineteen
Speaker 2: oh two, I was present when Holmes had an odd
Speaker 2: visitor at the flat on Baker Street. It was this
Speaker 2: first seemingly pleasant visit that was to lead us to
Speaker 2: the discovery of a great crime.
Speaker 3: Mister herbs Pray, sit down, sir, you are, of course,
Speaker 3: mister John Garadev. May I present my colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: How do you do, sir? As for your problem, Sir,
Speaker 3: your friend mister Nathan Garadeb has already invited me to
Speaker 3: be of assistance. Yeah, so he told me. That's why
Speaker 3: I've come.
Speaker 2: Nathan Garrideb and your John Garrideb brothers, perhaps said.
Speaker 3: No, they're not brothers, Watson, No doct John here would
Speaker 3: explain he concerns this document in my hands. Oh Nathan
Speaker 3: sent that did he? He did, but with precious little explanation.
Speaker 3: If we might have a clear account from you in
Speaker 3: the presence of Watson, certainly we usually worked together. Well.
Speaker 3: Years ago in the United States, there was a man
Speaker 3: named Alexander Garadeb.
Speaker 2: A third Garadeb. Really, I'm rather confused about him.
Speaker 3: It's simple. Alexander Garadeb made his money in real estate.
Speaker 3: He bought land along the Arkansas River. He became fabulously wealthy,
Speaker 3: but he'd no relatives, and he develop up to strange
Speaker 3: mental quirk, which was well. He took a kind of
Speaker 3: pride in the queerness of his name Garadet. I had
Speaker 3: a law practice then at a peaker and there we met.
Speaker 3: I imagine he took a liking to you, since your
Speaker 3: name was also Gardadev. Exactly, mister Holmes. His pet fads
Speaker 3: seemed to be to find out if there were any
Speaker 3: other Garadevs in the world. In fact, when he died,
Speaker 3: he left a very queer will. The document I have
Speaker 3: in my hand, that's it. You see. His property was
Speaker 3: divided into three parts. I was to have one provided
Speaker 3: two other Garadevs were found to share the remainder. Is
Speaker 3: it a considerable sum five million dollars to each man? Fantastics,
Speaker 3: And since the sum was so gigaddet, I set aside
Speaker 3: my practice to find two more gentlemen named Garadev. There
Speaker 3: isn't one in the United States, so I tried England,
Speaker 3: and here in London you founded mister Nathan Garadeb, my
Speaker 3: client two days ago at one three six Little Rider Street.
Speaker 3: I located him with the London telephone direction.
Speaker 2: Very fortunate. Does he have relatives?
Speaker 3: No? None? And the will states that all three Garadevs
Speaker 3: must be adult males. Hmm, whimsical name, Watson, mister Ganadeb.
Speaker 3: Have you tried advertising in the agony columns of the newspapers? Yes,
Speaker 3: I have no replies. It's a most curious little problem. Oh.
Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned having come from Topeka. I
Speaker 3: had a correspondent there once who's dead now, old doctor
Speaker 3: Lysander Starr, who was mayor in eighteen ninety. Oh, yes,
Speaker 3: a wonderful chap. I knew him intimately. Well, mister Holmes,
Speaker 3: we must find a third man named Garadeb somewhere in
Speaker 3: the globe or lose millions. We depend upon new sir
Speaker 3: as well you may, I shall communicate any new development
Speaker 3: to you. Thank you, good morning, good morning, good morning,
Speaker 3: sirn Well Watson. I haven't indulged in such a conversation
Speaker 3: for a long long time.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: I mean that everything mister John Garadeb said here in
Speaker 3: this fact just now is a lie. Every word a lie,
Speaker 3: A brightly colored camouflage. Watson, very deceiving. But underneath it,
Speaker 3: I wonder what hideous crime.
Speaker 2: 's at all homes I've I've permitted you to smoke
Speaker 2: your pipe and meditate long enough.
Speaker 3: Your faculty of keeping silent at the proper moments, my
Speaker 3: dear Watson, is one of the most impressive recommendations as
Speaker 3: a companion.
Speaker 2: Thank you, well. Tell me why did you say? John
Speaker 2: Geradeb died?
Speaker 3: His English coat was frayed at the elbow, and his
Speaker 3: trousers bagged at the knee. Were the years wear? And
Speaker 3: yet he claims to be a provincial American recently landed
Speaker 3: in London HAA. He placed no advertisements in the agony columns.
Speaker 3: You know I miss nothing there just there isn't any
Speaker 3: doctor Starr in Topeka. I invented the old conjuct.
Speaker 2: I see, But John claimed to have been his close friend.
Speaker 3: Precisely touch our mister John Garadeb where you will. He's false?
Speaker 2: How do we arrive at the truth holds by.
Speaker 3: Visiting the other Garadeb Nathan at Little Ryder's Street as
Speaker 3: quickly as a carriage will take us. This is Nathan
Speaker 3: Garadab's residence.
Speaker 2: Yes, a ring, Hopes.
Speaker 3: Hmm. We begin on firm ground. Nathan GARRETTEBP is indeed
Speaker 3: this gentleman's real name.
Speaker 2: How could you know that, Hopes before we've even met?
Speaker 3: Observe what's in the brass nameplate by the door especially,
Speaker 3: it's this colored surface up some years.
Speaker 2: Just of course. How did you point it out?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 3: Mister Nathan Garadab. I am Shelock Holmes. This is my friend,
Speaker 3: Dr Watson.
Speaker 6: Oh you came in, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Thank you this way, gentlemen, this way hmm. Fascinating rooms are.
Speaker 6: Do you find it?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 5: I'm very proud of my collection. There's incredible number of
Speaker 5: cupboards and cabinets.
Speaker 6: That's my butterfly collection.
Speaker 5: Where you are standing doctor in this case, gentlemen, and
Speaker 5: my ancient coins in that cabinet, and the skulls of
Speaker 5: prehistoric men of Flint instruments, early.
Speaker 2: Weapons as they have never seen so singular collections.
Speaker 5: My duct electures me about never going out good way?
Speaker 6: Should I heven? There's so much to hold me here.
Speaker 3: You never go.
Speaker 5: Out very seldom, mister Holmes, I'm not too strong who
Speaker 5: my research is very ab sobbing. You may well imagine
Speaker 5: what a terrific shock, pleasant but terrific it was when
Speaker 5: I learned of the will and.
Speaker 6: My good fortune.
Speaker 5: If we find just one more man named gerrydeb each
Speaker 5: of us receives five million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, have you any specific plans for spending the money?
Speaker 6: I shall spend it enriching my collection.
Speaker 3: Tell me when did John get adeb perspect you lost Tuesday?
Speaker 3: Did he ask for money? No? Do you know of
Speaker 3: any ulterior motive? He might have none? You told him
Speaker 3: we were coming here to day?
Speaker 2: I did, Holmes, what are you driving?
Speaker 3: Have you any articles of great value in this collection?
Speaker 5: It's a good collection, but not very valuable to see.
Speaker 3: How long have you been in the rooms?
Speaker 6: Nearly five years? Ah?
Speaker 5: Now, I see you imagine I'm not mentally well. You
Speaker 5: see my collections, my fossils, bones, my sculls, my dusty room.
Speaker 6: You're suspicious.
Speaker 5: You picture me I'll love forever in a room with
Speaker 5: his toys. That is what you two gentlemen are thinking.
Speaker 5: I know, and you're saying yourselves. He's insane. What's he
Speaker 5: up to?
Speaker 6: Is his scheming with us?
Speaker 5: John Geddidev Wait, is every sight and every sound in
Speaker 5: this room speak of death.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, You and mister Holmes were visiting
Speaker 1: old mister.
Speaker 3: Nathan garretd Debb at his very frightening rooms.
Speaker 2: There's mister Hallis and Gedadeb had a wild gleam in
Speaker 2: his eye as he ranted on about himself and about
Speaker 2: how suspicious he thought we were.
Speaker 3: You've acaenterated on a few point, Nathan Geradeb.
Speaker 6: Hey, they they hope, so they hope you trust me.
Speaker 5: Nactually, I'm a gently, very innocent, rather exhausted old man.
Speaker 6: No, who might that be?
Speaker 3: I have it?
Speaker 2: I have it, I have it.
Speaker 3: Well, mister John Garadab, Mister Holmes, I've found the third man.
Speaker 6: Have you really?
Speaker 3: I hope to be here, mister Holmes to Watson together,
Speaker 3: good news.
Speaker 2: Look man, who is it? How'd you find it?
Speaker 3: This newspaper? May I examine it? Five million dollars? Each
Speaker 3: of us collects five million dollsson newspaper?
Speaker 2: May I see?
Speaker 3: I made inquiries in Birmingham. My agent there sent me
Speaker 3: this advertisement from a local paper.
Speaker 2: Read it.
Speaker 3: Let me see Howard Garadab, constructor of agricultural machinery, binders, plows, farmers, carts,
Speaker 3: buck boards, other appliances. Estimates from artesian wells, applied Grosvenor buildings.
Speaker 3: Aston you see another man named Garretty.
Speaker 6: Glorious, glorious. I am rich.
Speaker 5: My collection will be the most magnificent in all history.
Speaker 3: Now now we must, we must see this thing through.
Speaker 3: I've written to this Howard Garrideb and told him that you, Nathan,
Speaker 3: will see him at his office in Birmingham tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 6: You want me to see him?
Speaker 3: John Well wouldn't it be wise, mister Holmes. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: sort of well really a nondescript American. But Nathan here
Speaker 3: is a Britisher with solid references. Look here, Nathan, all
Speaker 3: you must do is see the man, explain about the will,
Speaker 3: and get an aff for David at his existence.
Speaker 6: I must leave this room. I haven't been out in here.
Speaker 3: Yes, but you can be at Birmingham in a little
Speaker 3: over two hours and I could follow you if there's
Speaker 3: any trouble.
Speaker 6: I'm not used to travel.
Speaker 5: I just know my room and the world outside is
Speaker 5: another world.
Speaker 6: I'd be confused, afraid.
Speaker 3: I would urge you to go, mister Nathan.
Speaker 6: You would, mister Holme.
Speaker 2: With the poor Chapper's elderlin and firm homes.
Speaker 3: I believe the journey might be good for him, eh,
Speaker 3: John Gaadam, Oh, without a doubt. Look here, Nathan, I've
Speaker 3: come all the way from America, so it's little enough
Speaker 3: to ask you to go a hundred miles so as
Speaker 3: we might collect five million dollars. Will you go to Birmingham,
Speaker 3: mister Nathan, Yes, I'll go, fine, fine, fine, I will
Speaker 3: Calmar and see you after Birmingham. Good night, gentlemen, Not
Speaker 3: choice you. Goodnight, mister Kendeb.
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes, I should like.
Speaker 3: To examine your collection, or Chrisley, I could.
Speaker 6: Take your own now if you have time.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I have not. But while you're away to morrow,
Speaker 3: would you object to my visiting these quarters?
Speaker 5: Are not at all if missus Saunders in the basement
Speaker 5: will let you in.
Speaker 6: With her key?
Speaker 3: Excellent. Oh by the way, who is your house agent?
Speaker 2: Who his house agent? Holmes?
Speaker 6: Hull Away and Steer in the Edgeway Road.
Speaker 3: But why I was wondering if this house was Queen
Speaker 3: Anne or Georgian?
Speaker 6: Georgian beyond doubt.
Speaker 3: Really I should have thought it a little earlier. However,
Speaker 3: good bye mister Ganadeb, and may you have every success
Speaker 3: in Birmingham.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Holmes. And Dr Watson, good bye bye, sir.
Speaker 2: Well, it's astonishing we found the third man for the
Speaker 2: will their homes?
Speaker 3: Is it? Watson? Did you notice nothing curious about the advertisement?
Speaker 3: John Gardadeb showed us in that newspaper.
Speaker 2: Jove, yes I did. The word plow was misspelled.
Speaker 3: Yes, p l o W, but we spell at p
Speaker 3: l o u g h is bad English but good American.
Speaker 3: Then the buckboards that is American also and Artesian wells
Speaker 3: a commoner with them than with us. It's a typical
Speaker 3: American advertisement, but supposedly from an English firm.
Speaker 2: But you make it that well the same while as
Speaker 2: John Geradeb inserted the advertisement himself. This but then then
Speaker 2: there isn't any Howard Geradeb in Birmingham at all.
Speaker 3: Quite Nathan's off on a futile Trippercisely I permitted him
Speaker 3: to go ahead, though deliberate.
Speaker 2: But why why Holmes.
Speaker 3: You'll see Watson, You'll see.
Speaker 2: Homes where were you all morning?
Speaker 3: I must warn you, Watson, I have more information. It
Speaker 3: points to an even greater menace than I thought. If
Speaker 3: you don't wish to continue.
Speaker 2: I shall see this through at your side, Hose very well.
Speaker 3: I have identified this John Garadeb.
Speaker 2: Who is it?
Speaker 3: He is Killer Evans of sinister and murderous reputation, Killer Evans. Yes,
Speaker 3: I've seen lestrat ats Cotton. I found this John Garadeb's
Speaker 3: face in the rogues gallery. He's a native of Chicago.
Speaker 3: Shot three men in the States. He escaped through political influence,
Speaker 3: came to London in eighteen ninety three, shot a fourth
Speaker 3: man over cards and a gaming Club at Waterloo Road
Speaker 3: in January eighteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: A bloodthirsty men.
Speaker 3: The man he killed at the gaming club was Roger Prescott.
Speaker 3: I've also been to the house agent's Watson. Nathan Garadeb's
Speaker 3: weird quarters were occupied before by him by a man
Speaker 3: who answers the late Prescott's description.
Speaker 2: I see John Garadeb murdered the man who once lived
Speaker 2: in Nathan's quarters. And in the next link take.
Speaker 3: This from bother Watson. This afternoon, as I arranged with
Speaker 3: Nathan Garadeb, we shall ask his housekeeper to admit us
Speaker 3: to his room. There, Watson, we shall learn the terrible
Speaker 3: secret of the three Garadebs.
Speaker 2: Shall I pull up the blinds, allow some sunlight in hose?
Speaker 2: This room of Nathan's so dark, No Watson sculls horrify,
Speaker 2: the shadows, ancient crumbling bones. This whole plation of so
Speaker 2: musty as the air of a graveyard. Why have you
Speaker 2: told me to be quiet? What don't you look about?
Speaker 3: Because I'm expecting someone who John Garadeb, alias Killer Evans.
Speaker 2: Well, how do you know he'll come? Why should he?
Speaker 3: Watson? The whole of this story about the three Garadebs,
Speaker 3: the will the five million. They did inhabit is an invention,
Speaker 3: an invention of the killer, an invention.
Speaker 2: There isn't any Alexander garadeb who died and left such
Speaker 2: a will.
Speaker 3: There is not. John has woven his pluck with remarkable cunning.
Speaker 2: But what did he want?
Speaker 3: That is what we are here to find out. There's
Speaker 3: nothing whatever to do with Nathan. This will was a
Speaker 3: device to send Nathan to Birmingham. John required such a device.
Speaker 3: Nathan was a fanatic about never leaving this room.
Speaker 2: What's in this room?
Speaker 3: At first I thought Nathan might have something valuable in
Speaker 3: his collection, something worth the attention of a criminal like John.
Speaker 3: The fact that Prescott the Gambler lived here years ago
Speaker 3: points to a deeper reason waiting here.
Speaker 6: That is the key.
Speaker 2: Someone's in the front door.
Speaker 3: Quickly, that's hide behind that cover at the end of
Speaker 3: the rooms.
Speaker 6: Right you are.
Speaker 2: Revolve already ready, front doors opening. It's it's John Garadin.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Watch pushed the table to one side to back the carpet. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's using a tool. Prig up the boards of the floor.
Speaker 2: Should let a candle hoses. There's a trap door under
Speaker 2: that carpet leads to something below. There Cannedip's going down.
Speaker 3: Now, Watson will seize him. Pleasant to see you again,
Speaker 3: mister Garaday.
Speaker 2: If you look just behind you, you see that my
Speaker 2: revolver is pointed directly at your head.
Speaker 3: I believe it might be more accurate were we to
Speaker 3: dispense with your fictitious name and address you as Killer Evans. Well,
Speaker 3: I I guess you've been too much to me. How
Speaker 3: eh has played me for a sucker from the very beginning.
Speaker 3: I got to hand it to you because I've looked
Speaker 3: into the business end of a revolver before. What I
Speaker 3: always do is I have him. Watson stuck him with
Speaker 3: my pistoon.
Speaker 2: You heard Alice listener a mere scratch. Look look down
Speaker 2: their homes through the trap door. Beneath this room. There's
Speaker 2: machinery and papers and bottles, stack some money there.
Speaker 3: This what a printing press. This is the counterfeit as
Speaker 3: I've fitted in this a moment.
Speaker 2: John is trying to speak, blood pouring over his face,
Speaker 2: is trying to speak.
Speaker 6: Stuff down there.
Speaker 3: Belonged the greatest counterfeit of London ever saw. To Rodger Prescot,
Speaker 3: no living man could tell a Prescott note from Bank
Speaker 3: of England. Prescott, the man you killed in the gambling duel. Yes,
Speaker 3: let's make a deal. Those bundles of money Prescott made them.
Speaker 6: They're perfect fit the pass anywhere, worth a fortune.
Speaker 3: Take them, take them, let me beat it.
Speaker 2: Out of a mit of it. We're turning you over
Speaker 2: to Scotland Yard.
Speaker 3: I was the only one who knew where Prescot made
Speaker 3: the notes. I had to get Nathan gannettym out that
Speaker 3: crazy bug hund living here on top of this, never
Speaker 3: knowing it, dreaming of all the money in the world.
Speaker 3: What it was right beneath the duddy Flaubulty walk down
Speaker 3: all night to take the money. Let me go, Please,
Speaker 3: I've done nothing, plea aside from a charge of attempted murder. Sir,
Speaker 3: I'm quite sure that Scotland Yard has a formidable list
Speaker 3: of other subjects to discuss with you. Please give the
Speaker 3: yardicle Watson. Tell them we have our prisoner, John garadeb
Speaker 3: of Chicago. There's some doubt as to their familiarity with
Speaker 3: the name. And tell them the name of his captor,
Speaker 3: seannack Holmes at Baker Street. About the impact of that name.
Speaker 2: There's no doctor all.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, what became of Nathan Garrett?
Speaker 2: There well, mister Harris, he never got over the shock
Speaker 2: of his broken dreams. When his castle in the Air
Speaker 2: tumbled down, it buried him beneath the ruins. He was lost,
Speaker 2: heard over at a nursing home.
Speaker 3: In Bridgton and Killer Evans.
Speaker 2: Doctor Well, the bird was returned to his roost, the penitentiar.
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Speaker 2: A breast taking adventure is indeed, mister Harris. I have
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