Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the new shell Arcolm story
Speaker 1: murder in the Locked Room.
Speaker 2: Well, it's well that adventure took place many many years ago.
Speaker 3: If began on a gray and murky afternoon in Baker Street.
Speaker 3: We just finished tea, I remember, and Holmes was busying
Speaker 3: himself with some chemical experiments for some time. He sat
Speaker 3: down in silence, with his long, thin back.
Speaker 2: Curved over a report in which he was brewing a
Speaker 2: particularly malodorous product.
Speaker 3: As I glanced across at him, seated there under the
Speaker 3: gas light.
Speaker 2: His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked
Speaker 2: like a strange lank bird with dull a gray plumage
Speaker 2: and a black top bob.
Speaker 4: Suddenly he turned.
Speaker 5: To me, So, Watson, you have decided not to invest
Speaker 5: in South African securities. Huh?
Speaker 3: Oh, not to know that, Hugh, It.
Speaker 5: Isn't really difficult. I observed a groove between your left
Speaker 5: forefinger and thumb. It is enough to tell me that
Speaker 5: you do not intend to invest your small capital in
Speaker 5: the gold.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Connection and yet the train of thought and elementary one.
Speaker 5: You had chalk between your thumb and finger when you
Speaker 5: return from your club. Two. You put chalk there when
Speaker 5: you played billiards. Three you will never played billiards except
Speaker 5: with Marston. Four you told me about a month ago
Speaker 5: that Marston had an option on some South African property
Speaker 5: which would expire in four weeks, and what she desired
Speaker 5: you to share with him. Five Your check book is
Speaker 5: lost in my draw and you have not asked for
Speaker 5: the key. Number six is the logical conclusion you've decided
Speaker 5: not to invest your money in the senner.
Speaker 3: Third, listen book. I knew you'd say that one of
Speaker 3: that is Were you expecting a client?
Speaker 5: No, Watson, but I hope it is one. My practice
Speaker 5: has been decided. Listenack. They say, go and see who
Speaker 5: it is?
Speaker 3: He or missus Hudson our show, gentlemen in uh suezzer, good,
Speaker 3: good evening. I'm I'm doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: How do you do? My name is Sudley Stoner.
Speaker 3: Oh, come along in, mister Turner.
Speaker 5: Thank you, And this must be the great Sherlock Holme.
Speaker 5: My name is Holmes. The adjective is your own, mister Stoner,
Speaker 5: sit downward, Joe. Thanks. I don't imagine you know anything
Speaker 5: about me, mister Holmes, nothing beyond the paint that you
Speaker 5: went to Eton and Oxford that you have a beautiful
Speaker 5: and socially prominent wife, and that you contribute to the
Speaker 5: Strand magazine with some regularity. I'm disappointed in not receiving
Speaker 5: one of your famous deductive analyses, mister Holmes, but I'm
Speaker 5: glad that my name is familiar to you.
Speaker 2: You contribute to the Strand magazine, Sir two.
Speaker 5: That's the introduced.
Speaker 2: Sirh that you read some of my humble efforts.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, doctor, very colorful stories they are. Oh don't
Speaker 5: mind my saying so, mister Stoner. Your own stories, which
Speaker 5: should also deal with the world of crime, seemed to
Speaker 5: me to be even more sensational than Watson's, probably because
Speaker 5: he has the facts to work with, whereas I have
Speaker 5: to depend on my gift of imagination. But the reason
Speaker 5: I've come to you tonight's, mister Holmes, has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with imagination. I find myself mixed up in a
Speaker 5: real life murder that is as puzzling as any problem
Speaker 5: I've dealt with in fiction, the murder of mister Sunda.
Speaker 5: I say, really, Delex, please, well, mister Holmes, I'll give
Speaker 5: them to you as briefly and concisely as possible. I
Speaker 5: just got back from Paris yesterday. My secretary went with me.
Speaker 5: He did not return. The French police say he committed suicide.
Speaker 5: I know that he didn't. Oh, you know that, mister Sonner.
Speaker 5: The boy had everything in the world to live for,
Speaker 5: no financial worries, and of very promising future ahead of him. Hmm,
Speaker 5: Please this client for circumstances under which his body were found. Well, uh,
Speaker 5: I'd left him alone in his room. When I came
Speaker 5: to fetch him, there was no answer to my knock.
Speaker 5: I tried to look through the keyhole, but the key
Speaker 5: was in the lock from the inside and I could
Speaker 5: see nothing. After some time at the left, I got worried.
Speaker 5: A friend of mine, an inspector of the police, was
Speaker 5: dining with me that night, and he suggested we should investigate.
Speaker 5: We broke down the door. My secretary was dead, a
Speaker 5: bullet in his heart.
Speaker 3: Inside of room.
Speaker 2: Luck from the inside of this to the police arrived
Speaker 2: in thinking that it was suicide.
Speaker 5: Mister Sonner, of course you examined the room thoroughly or
Speaker 5: traces of some other method of ingris meticulously. The windows
Speaker 5: were left tight, no sliding panel none. Where was the
Speaker 5: revolver beside his right hand one bullet gone.
Speaker 3: You said the key was in the inside of the door.
Speaker 5: Yes, and that's why the police wrote it off as suicide.
Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, how would you explain such a situation. I'd
Speaker 5: like a few more facts before giving an opinion. You
Speaker 5: say you examined the room meticulously. Was there no podity,
Speaker 5: nothing out of place, nothing peculiar that room? Nothing that
Speaker 5: I noticed? Perhaps a small pellet of wax. Say yes,
Speaker 5: by Joe, I did find a watch pellet. It was
Speaker 5: lying on the carpet near the door, and I couldn't
Speaker 5: imagine what he was doing there. And there's your answer.
Speaker 5: One more question, This French inspector who entered the room
Speaker 5: with you, what was his personal relationship with your secretary?
Speaker 5: Odd that you should ask that they'd quarreled the night
Speaker 5: before about some girl at the Follybjiere. Then there you
Speaker 5: have it, mister Stoneer, the murderer left the room, locked
Speaker 5: the door from the side, remove the key, and plug
Speaker 5: the keyhole with wax. When the room was broken into,
Speaker 5: he simply slipped the key into the inside of the lock,
Speaker 5: thereby dislodging the wax pellet. Obviously, from what you've told me,
Speaker 5: only the inspector had that opportunity.
Speaker 3: Right Carter, French police inspectrum. Murderer Holmes, what are you
Speaker 3: going to feel about this?
Speaker 5: Nothing else? Jef beyond wishing mister Stoner good luck with
Speaker 5: the editor of a Strand magazine. I don't think I
Speaker 5: follow you, mister Holmes. Oh, come now, mister Stoner. It's
Speaker 5: an intellectual game and in its way quite stimulating. But
Speaker 5: don't think you can hoodwink me so easily.
Speaker 3: Holmes, What are you talking about, my dear Watson.
Speaker 5: I read the papers carefully. What do the papers have to.
Speaker 2: Do with this.
Speaker 5: I've noticed the presence of you and your lovely wife
Speaker 5: with so many social functions here in London in the
Speaker 5: past few days that I'm afraid I can't possibly accept
Speaker 5: your Paris story. This answer remains, you've come to me
Speaker 5: with an imaginary problem in order to solve the difficulty
Speaker 5: in one of your stories. Mister Holmes, you're even smarter
Speaker 5: than I gave you.
Speaker 3: Crazy This this disgraceful, sir, wasting my friend's time like this.
Speaker 5: I suppose I should have followed you, But here's the
Speaker 5: way it happened. I came home late last night, a
Speaker 5: little under the weather. I had the most wonderful idea
Speaker 5: on earth for a story. I was going to call
Speaker 5: it the Locked Room. I'm convinced. I made some notes
Speaker 5: from the story last night, but when I wakened this morning,
Speaker 5: I couldn't find them. All I could remember was the problem,
Speaker 5: But I had no idea how to solve it, and
Speaker 5: so I came to you. I see, it's an excellent
Speaker 5: idea for a story, though I have known similar locked
Speaker 5: room problems. In fact, I don't recall that fiction has
Speaker 5: exploited their possibilities as homes.
Speaker 3: Why are you so calm? I think it's outrageous. Come
Speaker 3: here and pick your brains for.
Speaker 5: A story, my dear Watson, How else do you get
Speaker 5: the material for your own masterpieces? If I would you
Speaker 5: grudge it to him? I must say, of being very
Speaker 5: sporting about him, mister Holmes. Oh no, mister Stoner, I'm
Speaker 5: being businesslike. May I ask how much you are in
Speaker 5: the habit of receiving for a story of yours in
Speaker 5: the Strand magazine about twenty guineas. Why I am a
Speaker 5: consulting detective, and I think think I've given you a
Speaker 5: valuable opinion. My fee if you sell your story will
Speaker 5: be ken Guinness. Good night to you, mister Stoner. Ah
Speaker 5: there you are a remarkable deduction. Andrea, Yes, here I am.
Speaker 6: I've spent all afternoons searching for those notes in the story.
Speaker 6: I could not find any trace of them.
Speaker 5: Yet I could swear I did some work when I
Speaker 5: came in last night. You are sure I didn't give
Speaker 5: you some dictation.
Speaker 6: Quite sure, Monsieur Doner. If you will from my saying, so,
Speaker 6: you were a little.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, go and Andrea say it as secondary has
Speaker 5: some rights. I was drunk, that's.
Speaker 6: What you mean in mil meant no offense.
Speaker 5: It'd be rather a leaf if you did. You're always
Speaker 5: so in fairly polite. Where's my wife? She's in the
Speaker 5: library with your brother in law.
Speaker 6: Messrs Seal very well.
Speaker 5: I need you after dinner. Andre. I'm going to work
Speaker 5: on the story tonight.
Speaker 7: Yes, hello, Chad, I was beginning to worry about your
Speaker 7: not being there for dinner.
Speaker 5: I stopped at the club. Good evening, Chad, Hello Henry,
Speaker 5: and how is our master of the violin this evening?
Speaker 3: Chad?
Speaker 7: Don't make fun of my brother like that, Yes.
Speaker 5: Chad, go easy.
Speaker 6: I can't learn the violin in two easy lessons, you know,
Speaker 6: Rilett are constantly on the piano.
Speaker 5: Just now, she says, I'm improving. I don't doubt that
Speaker 5: you're improving. You couldn't become worse, Chad.
Speaker 7: You're intolerable. Henry's our guests.
Speaker 5: An unwanted guests. As far as I'm concerned, he's been
Speaker 5: here two months. Why doesn't he try and get himself
Speaker 5: a job instead of mooning around here all day scraping
Speaker 5: away his fiddle.
Speaker 1: That's the last time you've been started me, Chad.
Speaker 5: I'm leaving here in the morning. I hope I can
Speaker 5: count on it.
Speaker 3: Oh, dare you, Chad?
Speaker 5: I scare you.
Speaker 7: If Henry goes in the morning, I shall go with him.
Speaker 5: Oh, Violet, take it easy.
Speaker 7: You've been drinking again, and you're disgusting when you drink.
Speaker 7: You made an absolute fool of yourself in front of
Speaker 7: Andre last night.
Speaker 5: You are very protective about him. Are you sure those
Speaker 5: carf ees he keeps making it? You are entirely I'm reciprocating.
Speaker 7: I hate you, Chad. I'm not waiting until the morning.
Speaker 7: I'm leaving to night.
Speaker 5: No, wait a minute, Violet, I'm sorry. I don't know
Speaker 5: what makes me do it. I get a few drinks,
Speaker 5: and I just feel that I've got to hurt you.
Speaker 7: Well, you certainly succeed. I used to think it was
Speaker 7: the so called artistic temperament that made you this way.
Speaker 7: Now I realize it's drink.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Violet, but it's not being too easy for me.
Speaker 5: Having Henry around all day gets pretty trying, particularly when
Speaker 5: I'm attempting to work.
Speaker 7: But he's planning to move soon. Anyway, Surely you can
Speaker 7: tolerate it a little longer for our sake, Chad, can't you?
Speaker 5: Of course I can, Violet. I'm sorry, Dear. I'll try
Speaker 5: and be a little less poorish, and I'll watch the drinking.
Speaker 7: That sounds more like the man I'm married, and i'll
Speaker 7: help too. I'll try and keep Henry out of your
Speaker 7: way as much as possible, Dear.
Speaker 5: We can make a go of it, Violet, I know
Speaker 5: we can. Well, I'm going into the study. I want
Speaker 5: to jut down some notes on the new story while
Speaker 5: they're still fresh in my mind.
Speaker 7: All right, Dear, then it'll be in about half an hour.
Speaker 5: I'll call you fine hm the Locked Room. Yes, that'll
Speaker 5: be a good title. You'll be worth giving. Shlock Home's
Speaker 5: ten guineas for the healthy Jayney.
Speaker 6: Who is it is that your wish?
Speaker 5: I'm fattered that you'll drop by the semi inspector less
Speaker 5: Chard not a business visit, I gather bless you now,
Speaker 5: mister Dams.
Speaker 3: Will you ever whisncerna? Won't you resul?
Speaker 8: Take it kindly, doctor Watson, not too much soda if
Speaker 8: you don't mind. The London criminal is becoming a doll
Speaker 8: dog these days, less Dard. My own practice has been
Speaker 8: remarkably slow in the past few weeks. Yes, I'm saying
Speaker 8: with us at Scottland Yard, mister Ahams, but of course we.
Speaker 5: Don't grumble at bet. Now take me.
Speaker 8: I've had an easy day today, just come from investigating
Speaker 8: a suicide in Church Street, Kensington.
Speaker 2: Need another poor devil who couldn't stand the pace of
Speaker 2: our modern living husband.
Speaker 8: I suppose the doctor they'd have thought this bloke and
Speaker 8: everything he wanted. He was quite a successful writer. They'd
Speaker 8: tell me a writer.
Speaker 5: What was his name?
Speaker 8: He wrote for the Strand magazine? Name was Chudley Stoner,
Speaker 8: Doctor Watson. It dropped that glass, you will say, Chudleys.
Speaker 5: Stoner committed suicide to night.
Speaker 8: That's right, mister Elams.
Speaker 5: You know him under what circumstances was he found?
Speaker 8: It was a routine Caser locked the door on his
Speaker 8: study from the inside and then blew his brains out.
Speaker 8: The windows were locked and there were no secret panels
Speaker 8: in that kind of stuff. It was suicide, all right.
Speaker 5: Hm. The arm of coincidence is long, indeed, but not
Speaker 5: as long as that has the body been moved, now,
Speaker 5: mister Elms, I teld him to touch nothing until the
Speaker 5: police photographer's got there, just to be on the sife side,
Speaker 5: you understand, sir, splendid grab your coat and half watson
Speaker 5: n't your hunt. But what's all the excitement, mister Elams,
Speaker 5: It's just a sericide nonsense, Inspector.
Speaker 8: I'll stake my whole reputation that Chudley Stoner has been
Speaker 8: the victim of the murder plot, as cunning and diabolical
Speaker 8: as any that I'd rather encountered.
Speaker 1: In just a moment we'll find out if Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 1: is correct and reducing that this is murder? Are you
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Speaker 1: watch and this is really one for the book. A
Speaker 1: mystery writer comes to Sherlock Holmes with a fictitious murder plot.
Speaker 1: Holmes starves it for him. Then the man goes away
Speaker 1: and gets murdered in exactly the way he described.
Speaker 2: Sir Simester Bell as provocative a problem as ever re encountered.
Speaker 1: I bet you hurried off to the dead man's house
Speaker 1: at once, didn'teous fast?
Speaker 2: There's a handsome cab could take us, Sir. As soon
Speaker 2: as we arrived, we cross examined the three members of
Speaker 2: the household, the dead man's wife Violet, her brother Henry Steele,
Speaker 2: and Andre LaRue, the sectress. All of them tell the
Speaker 2: same story that they'd heard the shots and hasten to
Speaker 2: the room from different parcel house.
Speaker 4: They said that they through the keyhole while it was blocked,
Speaker 4: and then the two men broke down the door.
Speaker 1: Just the same story as in the dead Man's fictional problem,
Speaker 1: wasn't it what happened next?
Speaker 5: Doctor White?
Speaker 4: Well, before we talked to the three suspects any further,
Speaker 4: Holmes inspected the star that I walked into the dead
Speaker 4: man's study to examine the body. I can almost hear
Speaker 4: Holmes now.
Speaker 5: He said, hmm, it's not hard to find a motive.
Speaker 5: A beautiful wife of worthless brother who'd been told to
Speaker 5: get out an attractive and attentive young French secretary who
Speaker 5: hated the dead man's cruelty. BlimE me and I called
Speaker 5: it just a routine serious eye You will notice that
Speaker 5: no wax pellet is in evidence this time. I'd say
Speaker 5: that the answer is obvious. The dead man did write
Speaker 5: some notes on his story. Last night, the killer found
Speaker 5: them and realized that he had been presented with a
Speaker 5: perfect murder method, never expecting that the dead man would
Speaker 5: divulge his method.
Speaker 8: To me, mister Owns, why are you examining the keyhole
Speaker 8: of the door.
Speaker 5: I was looking for a pellet of wax, inspector. It's missing.
Speaker 5: Obviously the murderer had read about that in the dead
Speaker 5: man's notes and was clever enough to remove it. But
Speaker 5: let's examine the corpse. H interesting, most interesting. Wow, I'm
Speaker 5: surely you can see for yourself, Watson. The bloodstains clearly
Speaker 5: indicate that the man fell here some five or six
Speaker 5: feet from the desk, and yet, with a dying burst
Speaker 5: of energy, he crawled towards the desk and clutched it.
Speaker 5: Undoubted that he was trying to give us a dying message.
Speaker 8: But out can elding on to a desk, give him message,
Speaker 8: mister Earmes. And why should a dying man try to
Speaker 8: do that anyway?
Speaker 5: Remember that the dead man was a writer and a
Speaker 5: student of student of criminology. In his last few moments
Speaker 5: of consciousness, he probably realized I'd be on the track
Speaker 5: of his murderer.
Speaker 2: Yes, more than one true homes with his body, as
Speaker 2: he felt the last time he upset that bowl of
Speaker 2: varlet and his wife's name is Volet.
Speaker 5: Coincidence, I think, Watson. The flowers were not over inadvertently
Speaker 5: as he fell, But the move to the desk was
Speaker 5: a deliberate and desperate effort.
Speaker 8: Wow, if you talk about that, look here, gentlemen, lying
Speaker 8: by his right arm. Look that was knocked off.
Speaker 5: The desk too.
Speaker 3: The seal was a monogram on its right.
Speaker 8: Doctor and seal is the name of the dead man's
Speaker 8: brother in.
Speaker 5: Law, Enry Seal. Interesting, But I refuse to believe that
Speaker 5: a dying man could deliberately knock over such a comprehensive
Speaker 5: number of the incriminating objects as he died.
Speaker 3: And who do you suppose did do at Hermes at
Speaker 3: this stage of the case.
Speaker 5: I shall suppose nothing, Watson. We have the three obvious
Speaker 5: suspects waiting for us, Let's question them. Mister Ahmas wants
Speaker 5: to ask you some questions, no, inspector. I only wish
Speaker 5: to ask the one question you, missus Stoneilan, How did
Speaker 5: you occupy your time while you were waiting for the
Speaker 5: police to arrive.
Speaker 7: I was so nervous that to try to calm myself,
Speaker 7: I did some knitting.
Speaker 4: I do quite a lot of meetings for the course guide.
Speaker 5: Man, you nervous, I see, And you, mister sal what
Speaker 5: were your movements before the police arrived?
Speaker 3: I sat in the library, mister Holmes, thank Soliturn.
Speaker 5: And you Andre.
Speaker 6: I went to my own and worked on my account books.
Speaker 6: I realized that my job here was finished, and I
Speaker 6: thought I would get my books.
Speaker 5: Another I see that's aweso. Now thank you. On the third, Yes,
Speaker 5: mister Dow, I'd like you to get me those three
Speaker 5: objects spoken of, the knitting of the cards and the
Speaker 5: account books.
Speaker 8: Right you are, mister answer, I.
Speaker 3: Don't see that you've found out much were home?
Speaker 5: Don't you want some I'd have thought my line of
Speaker 5: reasoning was obvious.
Speaker 2: What are you doing leaving that keyhole?
Speaker 3: Who said that this time the pellative works had been
Speaker 3: removed through.
Speaker 5: But even though the pellet's been removed, I'm quite sure
Speaker 5: there'll be traces of wax inside the keyhole, and there
Speaker 5: are blended. I shall remove this lock and take it
Speaker 5: back to Baker Street. The merger, undoubtedless, still had some
Speaker 5: traces of wax on his fingers. A closer examination of
Speaker 5: the fragments of wax inside this keyhole, and an equally
Speaker 5: close examination of the knitting of the cards and the
Speaker 5: account books should be able to give us the solution
Speaker 5: to this case.
Speaker 2: Welhelmes, you've been pouring over the microscope for Nelliana.
Speaker 3: Have you got the answer?
Speaker 5: Nearly but not quite?
Speaker 2: That You've examined all three of the objects. Surely it
Speaker 2: is just a question of finding which one of them
Speaker 2: shows traces of wax.
Speaker 5: Oh no, old Chap, Huh. It's not as easy as that.
Speaker 5: Oddly enough, the knitting, the pack of cards, and the
Speaker 5: compbooks all show traces of wax.
Speaker 3: Great Scott, But that means that all those people were
Speaker 3: involved in the murder. It's this concerted plan between.
Speaker 5: The three of them, I think not wats them?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 5: And in five more minutes I'm sure I can prove
Speaker 5: to you who the murderer.
Speaker 6: Is, Violet? Violet, why are you sitting alone here in
Speaker 6: the library?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: Hello, And I'm so upset. They think the Chad was murdered.
Speaker 7: Inspector still questioning Henry.
Speaker 1: I've believed they think he did it.
Speaker 5: Oh it's awful.
Speaker 6: Don't worry, darling. Everything is going to be all right.
Speaker 5: The chad body hardly cold, but.
Speaker 6: Surely now that he is dead. You always made me
Speaker 6: believe that if he were dead we could be together. Done.
Speaker 7: I was insane. I thought he was neglecting me, but
Speaker 7: perhaps there was some other woman. Just before he died,
Speaker 7: we had a talk. I knew it was going to
Speaker 7: be all right again.
Speaker 6: But me, you mean you were making a fool of me.
Speaker 7: I was making a fool of myself.
Speaker 5: And please forget it.
Speaker 6: Forget it, No, Michael, blooded english woman. I am not
Speaker 6: some stupid boy you can play with. You cannot throw
Speaker 6: me aside. I have risked my life for your happiness
Speaker 6: risk and you murdered Chud. Of course that I hated him,
Speaker 6: and I hated the way he made you unhappy. And
Speaker 6: the fool gave me the perfect way to do it
Speaker 6: by telling me about his filthy Sorry, I'm then forgetting that.
Speaker 3: He had done so you could get away from me.
Speaker 6: I'm turning you over to the police. Oh you are
Speaker 6: you are going to join Chad since you love him
Speaker 6: so much.
Speaker 5: My shooting Watson's you got him in the risk.
Speaker 7: Thank Heaven, you were both behind those chats.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry that we had to wait until the last
Speaker 5: minute to disclose our presence, but it's just as well
Speaker 5: to have witnesses to a murder confession.
Speaker 6: What you have to say for yourself nothing, Send for
Speaker 6: your policeman and have been taken.
Speaker 5: To prison with pleasure, Watson ask inspect let's try to
Speaker 5: step in here. Will you tell him we have a
Speaker 5: customer for him, a customer for the gallows. Oh nice, but.
Speaker 2: We've got to get back to Bakers, stated in exhausting
Speaker 2: Evening's work.
Speaker 5: Yes, what I sworded case shabby patchwork of discontent and hatred.
Speaker 5: Oh well, we've been instrumental in sending yet another felon
Speaker 5: to his rightful destiny.
Speaker 4: Mus one or two points.
Speaker 3: I don't quite understand.
Speaker 5: I can't believe it. What are they?
Speaker 2: You said that all three objects you examined contained traces
Speaker 2: of wax.
Speaker 5: They did, And at last that confused me. But there
Speaker 5: are various qualities of wax. For instance, Missus Stoner was
Speaker 5: knitting with a certain waxed wool that is used specifically
Speaker 5: knitting for seafaring man. It gives the garments a weatherproof finish.
Speaker 5: Never heard of it? Possibly not that it's a fact.
Speaker 5: And as you know, I specialized in such odd pieces
Speaker 5: of information.
Speaker 2: What about the traces of wax on the cards that
Speaker 2: Henry Steal used when he was playing solitaire?
Speaker 5: Again, I was misled until I remembered that Missus Toner
Speaker 5: told us that her brother had been playing the violin
Speaker 5: a short while before her husband's death. Oh, he's using
Speaker 5: ragin precisely. Logically, it had to be the secretary. But
Speaker 5: the proof came when I made the final analysis of
Speaker 5: the three specimens of wax that on the account books,
Speaker 5: was the only one that exactly matched the traces of
Speaker 5: wax I found in the keyhole.
Speaker 3: The stupid home.
Speaker 5: Hmm, something else bothering you?
Speaker 2: At one point you said that the dying man tried
Speaker 2: to indicate his murder by casting a desk as he died.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sure he was trying to give us a
Speaker 5: dying message.
Speaker 3: And I was fooled by the violets and the seal.
Speaker 5: And that was a freakish coincidence. But the effort in
Speaker 5: crawling to the desk was not. That was the true message.
Speaker 2: I don't sir.
Speaker 5: Oh, come now, Watson. The secretary was a Frenchman. The
Speaker 5: French word for desk and for secretary is the same secretaire.
Speaker 5: I see it now, Oh ready, Watson.
Speaker 3: You know, Holmes, you'll never get your fear of this case.
Speaker 5: Indeed, why tone is dead.
Speaker 3: You never sell that story to the Strand magazine.
Speaker 5: Now, true, Watson, but I've no doubt that you will.
Speaker 5: But though perhaps it will be a slightly different version
Speaker 5: of it, and you'll probably call it something very melodramatic,
Speaker 5: and perhaps a murder in the locked room.