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Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Speaker 4: Doctor it is, and a.
Speaker 3: Strange story it is. It was in the autumn of
eighteen hundred and ninety nine, mister Bartell, that I decided
both his doctor and friend, Sherlock Holmes, was in desperate
need of a holiday.
Speaker 2: He had really been overdoing it. Oh my boy, it.
Speaker 3: Had been in a new It was really busy here,
and at the time my story begins, Holmes were suffering
from complete ENGROSSI so, my boy. Towards the end of
October that year, we found ourselves in the charming city
of Kazanlak, capital of the small Balkan kingdom of Grosnia.
A few nights after our arrival, I remember Pavlu Krasnodar,
Grossian minister of Police, took us to hear the singing
of a certain young Hungarian opera star, Miss Lily.
Speaker 2: Raina, was then touring Europe.
Speaker 3: At our table was a fiorcelle charming young aristocrat, Prince Stefano,
And it was very easy to see as he sat
there listening to the song that the boy was head
over heels in love. It is a haunting melody that
she sang. Mister Bartel, I can almost cheer it up.
You're a very lucky man, Prince Stevano. Your fiance's voice
matches her beauty.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, doctor Putson, I consider myself the most fortunate
man in.
Speaker 2: Gorodness a magnificent voice.
Speaker 4: The finance singing I can recall since square, mister, I
was thinking of a prima donna of the Warsaw Opera
who attained considerable success in London, Miss iring A.
Speaker 2: Oh my good, yes, he was a criminal, one of
the few that out willed you. Holmes. Oh that was
the case that we have interested you, mister Krosnoda.
Speaker 5: I am familiar with it, my dear Waa usually solemn Tonight, Presna,
have a glass of wine, and I will bring Lily
to our angel and we will toast our happiness. I
am afraid I cannot drink to that toast, Prince Stefano.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: I know why you, the notorious lady kill got near
a jealous You're in love with Lily, said Prince Stefano.
I have sad news for you. I have come here
tonight but for one purpose to arrest your fiance.
Speaker 2: Oh joke, It.
Speaker 6: Is far from a joke.
Speaker 5: At my ministry, we have evidence, conclusive evidence that missus
Lily Raina is a spy by good law tip a
spying in grossnew That, my friend, is why I would
drink no toust in Krosnia. The penalty for Escianas is death.
So I know, But Holmes, you must do something to
say that girl. You can't just turn in for the
night without trying to help her in some way.
Speaker 2: It might shoot her in the morning.
Speaker 4: Kasnd's no fool, since he's maybe arrest obviously as a
water dyke case.
Speaker 2: Against the girl. One last pipe.
Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't understand her fiance's behavior. He didn't
do a thing, just stood there in the Krasnodara rest
the girl.
Speaker 4: What could he have done? Krasnodara's Commissioner of Police. There's
no point in arguing with him until the evidence had
been examined.
Speaker 3: I imagine the principle try and pull some political strings.
Speaker 2: After all, come in to speak to me, mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 7: I have come to talk to you about my baby.
Speaker 2: My name is Martha Grigget your baby, mister Holmes, down
my baby.
Speaker 7: She is twenty years old and she is flaxen haired
and beautiful.
Speaker 3: Oh that's entirely different matter who if you delighted to
help you delighted?
Speaker 2: She won't you? And who's behalf if you come to me?
Speaker 7: Poor Lily Rena.
Speaker 2: Lily Rena, that's the girl who's arrested tonight.
Speaker 7: I am only her dresser, and yet I'm Martha Greggor
I'm her.
Speaker 2: Mother and father. I have toured Europe with her ever.
Speaker 7: Since she left Vienna.
Speaker 4: She sent you to me tonight.
Speaker 7: I suppose yes, mister Holmes, she said you would understand
she mean Manna. I wonder she said that mister Holmes
would take care that a talent like her should not perish.
Speaker 2: Just because she broke.
Speaker 4: In other words, she wishes me to establish her innocence
in the same breath as she confesses her guilt. And
I'm afraid I don't take that sort of plant.
Speaker 6: Good night you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Doctor Watson, I am glad that you came to my
office this morning. I can show you the proof of
Miss Lily Raina's guilt. As distinguished foreigners, I should like
you to know that though the penalty for political crimes
is swift and severe, we are most careful that the
incriminating evidence is beyond question.
Speaker 2: You see these letters.
Speaker 6: We found them sold into the bodies of her gown.
Speaker 5: There are a series of highly dangerous letters from yourself,
the leader of the revolutionary party, with whom she is
obviously handing love.
Speaker 4: Here you may examine them if you wish.
Speaker 2: It looks like Greek men.
Speaker 4: Our knowledge of the Grossnian language is far from perfect,
because these letters certainly seem to incriminate their own beyond doubt.
Speaker 2: You will observe that the letters have followed her to.
Speaker 4: Each of the cities in which he has been singing.
Speaker 5: All of them ask questions as to the military garrisons
and the chances of a successful revolution.
Speaker 2: She has been a dangerous fy.
Speaker 3: Yes, I can see that though, But even so, isn't
the death penalty excessively severe?
Speaker 2: Particularly for a woman?
Speaker 5: Doctor Watson? The Balkan states are a hotbed of European intrigue.
Our penalties must be severe, and we cannot make concessions
to the sex of a culprit.
Speaker 4: From Joseph letter, Have you been able to find and
trace them?
Speaker 2: None?
Speaker 4: If only we could, But we have never even seen
the man.
Speaker 5: However, we are fortunate to trap his assistant and apparently
the lady of his choice.
Speaker 2: Lady of his choice, but she was engaged to Prince.
Speaker 5: De Paru, undoubtedly a blind. In her home we found
an unsigned love letter in English. It wasn't the same
handwriting as these letters from Yosep.
Speaker 2: Are you satisfied, Watson?
Speaker 4: Well, obviously she's okay. There's no place for me in
this affair, particularly when you consider that she made us
virtual concession sending out Breser to me last night.
Speaker 2: I suppose you're right just the same.
Speaker 3: If you want to tramp this man your sup I
should think you'd be wiser to hold the girls or hostage.
Speaker 2: It might bring him on the scene. If he's a friend,
you'll talk. If you hang her, you will never find him,
doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: In my country we found that front justice gets the
best results, and for your edification, we do not hang.
In Grosna, death penalty is exacted at the hands of
a firing squad. Now when it's the execution to take place,
your time, your visit, well, my friends, please to step
onto the balcony.
Speaker 4: I think that answers your question.
Speaker 2: Mister Holmes, prid Scott against the wall, blindfold of the
firing squad before her.
Speaker 4: It's lili rena Grasnian justice indeed moves swiftly, mister Krasnoda,
it has some friends.
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't care what she's done. I don't
want to see it. Oh huh, she's coming to the
ground full little thing.
Speaker 4: What an artist? I have to see a woman executed,
and if she is a.
Speaker 5: Spy, lay all traitors to gross near die a swiftly.
But what a lost her beautiful voice, Yes, her beautiful voice.
Shall we go in, gentlemen, in her homes.
Speaker 2: I can still see that poor girl. She crumbled before
the firing squad.
Speaker 4: Seven, I old chair.
Speaker 2: That's her song you're playing, isn't it. Yes, the melody
is still. Won't say you blame me, don't you'll blame
you for what They're not preventing her death?
Speaker 3: Oh of course I don't blame your homes. The girls guilty.
Rosnie in law prescribes the death penalty for her crime.
I'll brow you've done about it?
Speaker 4: Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2: And yep, Yet, what I wonder if she was right?
Speaker 4: And I wonder if ancestry is that descers. Isn't a
greater value for you humanity than spying in any cause?
Speaker 2: It's not much good worrying about that, now, is it?
The girl's dead't burried? What's what's? Did you hear that?
I hear what I swear?
Speaker 4: Did I that the dead girl's voice? She was singing
a song to my accompaniment.
Speaker 2: Oh really, your nurse must be in a very bad
stagholes hearing voices. Indeed, you better turn in for the knife.
Speaker 4: Perhaps maybe more my conscience than my nerves.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a sleeping draft if you like.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm all right.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I could have sworn the oh well place,
all that tune were your holes?
Speaker 4: What heavens, Ah, you had it this time at Watson.
Speaker 2: Of course I did. It was her voice, There's no mistaking. Oh.
I don't believe in ghosts, and yet I could swim Listen,
good lord, it is a sh soon I let him go.
Who are you? Where are you about?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: Strack a mat.
Speaker 3: Watson, strack a match like the gas gocle. Here in
the moonlight, moving past the window. It's the figure of
that girl shot at the mate.
Speaker 2: Watson.
Speaker 4: I got the door.
Speaker 2: The guesses like him, she finished old.
Speaker 4: Not by means of this door. They're standing in front
of it, and there's no exit from the room.
Speaker 2: I don't like this. We're gabbling in the supernet.
Speaker 4: Stop trembling, Watson. Whatever the explanation for this may be
one thing at least I find quite fascinating. And what's
that It's the first time in my career that I
had a ghost for a clant. Doctor Watson Little tell
us the rest of his story in just a second.
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doctor Watson, So you had a ghostly visitor calling on
you at the hotel that night.
Speaker 3: Here's my boy, and I confess I was so badly
shaken by the experience that my heart slept a wink
all night.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: The next morning, after an early breakfast, Holmes and I
located the proprietor a hotel and began to question him
as to the.
Speaker 2: History of the building.
Speaker 4: I'm not the architecture of this building ever since you,
ever since we came here, and house of this period
would undarkly have been built with secret passages and staticism.
Speaker 8: I confess that I know of one secret staircase.
Speaker 4: Then they will be others, indeed, and then here's the
one you know of.
Speaker 2: If you wish to explore it, gentlemen, Oh very much,
My friend and I are most interested in I think
follow me please.
Speaker 8: These stairs will lead to our wine cellars. Thousands of
feet are tramped up and down these steps. Only I see,
like few know that behind this tapestry, here, behind this tapestry, gentlemen,
is apparently.
Speaker 4: A solid wall.
Speaker 2: But the wall is not solid. You have a match perhaps?
Oh yes, of course you know.
Speaker 8: We keep a candle here in this niche for just
such an occasion as this, So please hold back tapestries.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got it, thank you.
Speaker 8: Now let me see one, two, three, four, the fourth
break up from his stair.
Speaker 2: I press it so and look, great gun section of
the wall swinging.
Speaker 4: Up a step away behind it. Genius.
Speaker 8: Dear gentlemen, allow me to give you the candle.
Speaker 2: But aren't you going to lead the well? No, sir,
I'm not going to lead the way, thank you.
Speaker 8: I have owned this hotel for thirty two years, and
yet I have never explored this stairway. Why, sir, is
it refuted to be halted? Yes, it is supposed to
be haunted. The candle chans. I'm not obliged to come on, Watson,
I should wait here.
Speaker 2: I don't think I care for this old, fine dark
in here.
Speaker 3: Damn moody, too fat, worst landing, landing, but nothing but
does doesn't come when a person or chap there's a
think imprinted a woman's heel here, Oh my god. Yes,
shoes that are gone both up and down these stairs
in the last twentyforectly and.
Speaker 4: There's a first printer here. This, my dear chap, I think,
accounts for the appearance and disappearance of our visitor last night.
Speaker 2: It hopes it was the singer Lily Rainer. Yet we
saw her shop yesterday morning.
Speaker 4: Harbish? What's rubbish? What have we to do with walking corpses?
Come on, old fellow, Let's see where this stairway leads
us to.
Speaker 2: Over then, what did we see? We didn't see a
ghost last.
Speaker 4: Night, lap, my dear chap, this is what we have
to find out. Mm hmm, Wait a minute, staircase end, yes.
Speaker 2: Against the blank wall. That does make sense.
Speaker 4: And yet the entrance to this stairway was an apparent
blank wall tool. Remember, let's see if the same formula
would do the same trick here it.
Speaker 2: Was if one, two, three, four, four.
Speaker 4: Bricks up from the stair bi press so and.
Speaker 2: Open stool swinging back again? What do we see?
Speaker 4: Another tapestry, a tapestry that was very familiar.
Speaker 2: Well say so, this hidden door leads into your very
own better room. Act about your chat.
Speaker 4: Now we know beyond doubt how the apparent ghost made
her appearance last night.
Speaker 2: You suppose it must have been someone impersonating the.
Speaker 4: Day, my dear fellow, is a question that can only
be answered by calling on her fiancee, Prince Stefano. Let's
go over and see him at once, Shelby, Prince Stevano.
I just like to intrude upon your personal tragedy, but
I must.
Speaker 2: Ask you a few questions. Ask your question.
Speaker 4: Did your fiance have a sister, a sister who may
have resembled her?
Speaker 9: No, she had no living relatives at all, mister Holmes,
Oh tell me that who inherits her estates progress her?
A faithful old woman by the name of Mata Gregorth,
who looked after her for.
Speaker 4: Some united sy Did miss Rainer have an understudy as
a singer? She could have no understudy. She was, if
you please, you say, as a singer. Was she also
an actress? She's, mister Holmes, how very unusual. The first
time I saw her was in Tosca.
Speaker 9: She she was not another girl now, but the performances
very promising one considering her age.
Speaker 2: In my country.
Speaker 9: Of course, she was not able to appear in anything
but Oftener because because she could not speak Rosstian.
Speaker 4: She didn't speak Crossian. Now why have the answer?
Speaker 2: Do you answer?
Speaker 4: That's too hot to this entire story from the rest
of your fiancee to certain strange visitations of my hotel
last night. What do you mean, mister Home, did you
come to my hotel room tonight? My dear Prince, I
can safely promise to make the whole matter with you,
and I dare go a little further. I think that
I can even help you find consolation in your bereavement.
A Ladies and gentlemen, I can see that you wonder
why Dr Watson and I have asked you to come
here to our hotel tonight.
Speaker 5: As Minister of Police, I should be stupid if I
did not realize that, since your other to guess the
Prince Stefano and Martha dreg of the dead girl's dresser,
that this meeting has some bearing on the execution of Rainer, I.
Speaker 2: Should prefer to say her murder.
Speaker 4: Lat and gentlemen, if you please, and.
Speaker 2: I should like to make my own position in this matter.
Speaker 4: Quite two nights ago, you Mather came to me on
behalf of miss Rainer to solicit my aid. I convinced
that she was guilty, refused that aid. Yesterday morning, she
died before a firing squad. Last night, her ghost appeared
to me here in this room and asked me to
avenge her death.
Speaker 2: A ghost?
Speaker 4: What nonsense are you talking?
Speaker 7: It would be no surprise to me if her poor
murdered soul came back from the grave to ask for justice.
Speaker 2: Sir, I shaw, my good woman. Almost as clearly as
I see you all, I.
Speaker 4: Agree with Krasna dat to talk of ghosts as the younger.
Speaker 2: Please, that's finish.
Speaker 4: When I this visitation last night, I decided to investigate
the case thoroughly. I did so today, and I can
assure you that miss Vrainer paid for a crime she
did not commit. What grounds do you have for saying that, mister?
The letters that were supposedly written to her were in
the Grosnian language, and yet today Prince Stefano informed me
that she could not appear in the theire here because
she did not speak the language.
Speaker 2: Those letters were shown into her bodies.
Speaker 4: That's true, my dear fellow. And who is the only
person who had the opportunity to do that. The same
person who came to me two nights ago and succeeded
in convincing me that Miss Rayner was guilty undress her
and suppose, Franks, are you suggesting I'm not suggesting that
you inherited her estate on her death, and that you
would have.
Speaker 5: Lost that inheritance if she had married and had a
family of her own. Well you have to say in
answer to that, Martha, that I.
Speaker 4: Am among madmen.
Speaker 2: This stocal ghost proves it terrible.
Speaker 4: Then let the guests support my theories. Held me Volin,
will you not, Colone?
Speaker 2: I got thank you. Now turned on the gas light.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's it.
Speaker 2: And listen.
Speaker 9: Yes, that's her voice, and that's her figure standing there
in the moonlight, even though she's dead.
Speaker 4: I'd say, mother, aren't you responsible for her death? If
I ghost can sing, I'm sure I can also talk.
Speaker 2: I did do it.
Speaker 4: The letters belongs to me.
Speaker 2: I sacrifice my own baby before the goals may have
enough mercy on my soul.
Speaker 4: A confession in front of four witnesses. Why not take
it away, Krassnador, we'll tentify later.
Speaker 2: I will come with me, Martha, I chilled my complete
I this letter die. But shall I Can I turn
up the guest homes.
Speaker 4: Ask Prince Stepano, No, len I turn it up.
Speaker 9: I've seen heard the ghost of my beloved when the
lights for down and I'm not afraid, please play her
melody again, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Aren't you afraid, Prince Saparo?
Speaker 4: Where should I be afraid?
Speaker 2: Your spirit and can be no eager run. I love it,
I loved you, living.
Speaker 9: The pleasure of love last, but an instant lovest regrets
last for a lifetime.
Speaker 4: This is now my lifetime, brightened by your gracious cost.
I'm sure this is a very touching scene, but it's
getting a dreadfully mordlin. All right, Miss Rayner, you may
come from behind the tapes to now and what's no
chap shall up the guest light as good for But
you are, Prince Stefano, permit me to reintroduce you to
your far from gurst li fionce. Miss Lily Rainer really
my beloved you?
Speaker 2: No, I am not bid, so I cannot see how
shellacomstead of my secret. And there, my dear young lady,
you're in exactly the same boat as I. Sure the
answer is obvious.
Speaker 4: You gave me the key yourself, Prince Stefanily keep But
how mister will you informed that Miss Rainer had once
played the title role in Toscar Tosco, has I've gotta
do with anything the plot, Watson, a minister of police
who is very deceptible at her latest charms, arranges a
false execution. Knowing mister Krasnadaw's weakness, Miss Rayner, you prevailed
upon him to do likewise.
Speaker 3: Hu whethern the whole execution was a piece of pandomime.
The rifles must have contained Blain.
Speaker 4: I have tried altern What should have heightened my suspicion
as reign It was the fact that, at the moment,
if you're a talent test mister Krasnodorf quoted a line
from Toscar He said, what an artist? And I was
not perceptive enough at the time to evaluate the mark correctly.
I'm afraid when the simulated execution took place, you were free,
but assume dead.
Speaker 2: But why should I indulge in such a trick? Fit
the hole?
Speaker 4: You reason that had you come to me directly, I
might easily have turned you over as a fugitive from justice.
And when you decided to dramatize the situation and appear
last night is an apalent ghost, you knew it would oil,
at the very least stimulate my curiosity it would caused
me to investigate the matter and possibly to learn the
truth and clear you from suspicion.
Speaker 3: Yes, but hops if she's innocent, how about the love
let in English which was in the handwriting of yourships revolutionarily?
Speaker 4: Now I can see only one explanation for that, you,
Prince Pano, are that mysterious or revolutionary? Yosip final that
is a post.
Speaker 2: Mister Holmes, you're a visitory in my country. I do
not suppose you will be staying here much longer. Have
fun all day once you received me silent, lily.
Speaker 9: Litle men, I hope for your own sake you will
not be staying here much longer.
Speaker 4: I've been threatened by far more imposing adversities than you,
Prince Stefanu. I just that you leave my room. It's
none of my business dabbling in Grossnian political affairs. Your
secret is safe in any case. I came to Grossnia
for holiday. Goodbye, goodbye, oh my soul. If we were
in London, you would behave in a so off henway.
Speaker 2: But we're in Grossnier Chap Barkley, helly the varlin.
Speaker 1: Will you hear?
Speaker 4: You know what's and not? I've only had professional dealings
with two singers in my life. The first was I
really Adler and she fooled me, oh so cleverly. And
this singer tried to fool you and failed dismally. Seems
to me the score chat.
Speaker 2: No, this one was not Irene Adler will always be.
Speaker 4: The woman. Oh well, I think that's an excitement for
one day, don't you. I'm sure I am supposed to
be taking a holiday.
Speaker 5: Doctor.
Speaker 2: That was a swell story.
Speaker 1: And I bet that you were a lot more interested
in the beautiful lily than your story.
Speaker 4: And I would have us believe.
Speaker 2: Of course I'm interested in a beautiful woman. But then
what managed check? But don't worry about me, mister Bartel.
Speaker 3: You know, in a family man, I just naturally associate
a beautiful woman and home.
Speaker 2: And that makes me think of hospitality. What do you
mean by that?
Speaker 3: Well, according to you, I'm interested in home life. You
you're primarily interested in wine. Put it together, and we're
interested in wine in the home.
Speaker 2: Isn't it an important part of hospitality.
Speaker 1: That I admit? But remember, my interest in wine is
entirely an interest in good wine, in petrie wine, to
be exact, Because I know all about Petrie Wine. I
know that the Petrie family has been making wine for generations.
With the Petrie family, the growing of perfect sun ripe
and grapes and the art of turning those grapes into fragrant,
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Speaker 2: It's a heritage handed.
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But you'll discover that for yourself. You'll learn that no
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when it's a Petrie wine because Petrie took time to
bring you good wine. Well, doctor Watson, what new Sherlock
Holmes adventure do you have lined up for us next day,
our next week?
Speaker 3: Mister Bartel, I'm going to tell you a most unusual story.
Sherlock Holmes crossed swords with the famous frenchman, improved that
although the English have been called a nation of shopkeepers,
that a murder did not always.
Speaker 2: Prove to be a good bug.
Speaker 1: Tonight, Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by Dennis Pain and
Anthony Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Sussex Vampires. Music is
by Dean for mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and tonight, Doctor Watson was played by
mister Joe Kerns, who substituted for mister Knichel Bruce. Mister
Bruce is scheduled to return to the program next week.
The Petryline Company of San Francisco, California invites you to
tune in again next week, same time, same station. Sherlock
Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio.
Speaker 2: This is Harry Bartel.
Speaker 1: Saying good night for the Petrie family. For a solid
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