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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Lucky Shilling Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conwa · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: An our doctor to get back to your game of
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: quest at the Bagatel Club.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, this was the adventure Holmes always referred to
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: as the case of the Lucky Shilling. As a matter
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: of accuracy, it was more than sheer luck that enabled
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Holmes to win with that particular coin. Oh were, but
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: to begin at the beginning. It was a lazy spring
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: morning in the late nineties. I emerged from my bedroom
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: with a well developed case of spring.
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: Fever, which Holmes jolted you, Adam, he did.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, before I had time to down my morning coffee,
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  Speaker 2: he bustled me into a handsome cab, and my revolver
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: in my pocket, and the scent of adventure in my nostrils.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Holmes was cold and stern and silent, his brows knit
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: in thought, and his hin lips drawn into a sardonic smile,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: a sure sign that we were on the prowl in
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: the dark jungle, a criminal London, Holmes, do you have
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: to look so sinister? After all, it's a beautiful spring morning,
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: the buds are budding, the birds are seen, and.
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: One of our well known young men of our town
• 1:13
  Speaker 4: has unaccount to be disappeared with an inconsiderable sum of money.
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: Watson. His mother sent me a frantic summons early this morning.
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: Turn him here, driver, park lane number is four twenty seven.
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: Four twenty seven park Lane. That sounds vaguely familiar.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, we've been there before. This is the house driver.
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: You all keep the change, ny you, of.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Course, it's the establishment to have laid in mine, wife
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: of the Earl of Manoud. It is through that window
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: there that her second son, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: shot by Colonel Rand's famous air gun.
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: This time it's her oldest son, Lord Robert, who's missing.
• 1:54
  Speaker 4: Is it any wonder? The letter she sent me burges
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: on hysteria.
• 2:08
  Speaker 5: But you don't understand, mister Holmes. Robert is a most
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: devoted son. He'd never leave me in my condition without
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: some sort of explanation.
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: Your condition, lady, maynuth as.
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: You know, mister Holmes. I left my husband, who was
• 2:22
  Speaker 5: governor of one of the Australian colonies, the year before last,
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: to return home to England for an operation for cataract
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: of the right eye. My second son and my daughter
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: accompanied me e.
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: That operation I believe was a complete success.
• 2:34
  Speaker 5: It was, mister Holmes, but my son's tragic death, and
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: the knowledge that my left eye was also affected and
• 2:40
  Speaker 5: in due time would have to be operated on, left
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: me in a horrible state of nervous depression.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Understandable, Holmes, Yes, quite so.
• 2:48
  Speaker 5: As the time for my second operation approached, my husband
• 2:51
  Speaker 5: insisted that our oldest son, Robert.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Should be here with me.
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: How long has he been in London, Lady meynoth less
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: than a week.
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: Hardly time for him to get into any scrape the
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: usual bad company.
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, it couldn't be anything of that sort, doctor Watson.
• 3:05
  Speaker 5: Robert is too shy and well, perhaps fastidious is the word.
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: He much preferred to spend an afternoon in the British
• 3:13
  Speaker 5: Museum or the National Gallery, then galloping up and down
• 3:16
  Speaker 5: rotten Row, or winking at pretty nursemaids in Kensington Gardens.
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: Hmm, pity.
• 3:21
  Speaker 4: A certain amount of kicking up of the heels and
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: the young lady menuth is healthy prepares them for life.
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: They learn what to beware of later on.
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, you terrify me. You don't suppose Robert has
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: fallen into the clutches of one of those theatrical hazars
• 3:35
  Speaker 5: of the gaiety who are always marrying young men with titles.
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: Calm yourself, Lady Manuth, granted your son will inherit a title.
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: I hardly think enough coin of the realm goes along
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: with it to interest one of the gaiety girls, Am
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: I right?
• 3:48
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately? Yes, That's why I'm so particularly worried about Robert.
• 3:54
  Speaker 5: He's never had the handling of a large sum of money.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: Before before what before yesterday?
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: I well, I feel I must have no secrets from you,
• 4:03
  Speaker 5: mister Holmes, if you're to find Robert. I need money desperately.
• 4:09
  Speaker 5: My second operation for cataract is to be performed by
• 4:11
  Speaker 5: the famous eye surgeon, Sir Lionold Tupper.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: A brilliant opthalmologist, best in the field, Anita up Watson.
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  Speaker 5: He is brilliant, Doctor Watson, but all so frightfully expensive.
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  Speaker 5: His fee for my lost operation was five hundred guineas
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  Speaker 5: white outrageous, but he's worth it every penny. Well, to
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: make a long story short, I had no cash in hand,
• 4:32
  Speaker 5: no possible way of raising any in the immediate future,
• 4:36
  Speaker 5: so I gave Robert my pearls to Paul. It was
• 4:40
  Speaker 5: yesterday afternoon that was the last any of us saw
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: of him.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: I pardon the question, Lady Minouth. They were valuable peels.
• 4:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, mister Holmes, they were worth many times the
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: five hundred guineas I hope to raise on them.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: I see, but pardon me.
• 4:57
  Speaker 5: I see Parker the butlers motioningly from the front hall.
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: I think he has something to tell.
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: Another case of a sealing of the upper class has
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: gone wrong, he Holmes, not necessarily, Watson, quiet is coming back.
• 5:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, mister Holmes, I'm so relieved. Pauker tells me that
• 5:16
  Speaker 5: Robert has just come in the back way and gone
• 5:19
  Speaker 5: up to his room.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry to have brought you out on a wild goose chase.
• 5:24
  Speaker 5: But you can see there's no further.
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  Speaker 3: Need for you.
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: On the contrary, Lady Manouth thisss, I'm very much mistaken.
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: This is the moment when there's the greatest need for me,
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  Speaker 4: which is your son's room.
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: First door left at the top of the stairs.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: Come along, what's up?
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: We go? What's wrong? Homes What do you think is that?
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: I may be wrong? But no, the door's locked. You
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: hear that, Homes, Yes, Watson, it's not the.
• 5:48
  Speaker 4: First time we've put the devil's tattoo in Heaven's name.
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: What is it the sound of heels beating against a
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: closet door. Lady Maynooth, your son has hanged him?
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: So confound the explanations. Homes helped me break down the door. There,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: Who do that? Was a narrow squeak, old man.
• 6:16
  Speaker 5: Don't do it again, oh Robert, how could you?
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mother. I guess I'm just no good.
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  Speaker 6: I lost the money, mother, the money they gave me
• 6:27
  Speaker 6: for pawning your pearls.
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: There's nothing to pay for your operation.
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  Speaker 7: What does it matter?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, nothing cats but having you safe and some game.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: How did you lose the money at cards? Mister Holmes?
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm not as good a whist player as
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: I thought I.
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: Was, you young scoundrel. You mean you took the money
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  Speaker 2: for your mother's operation and gambled it away.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: But I had to believe me. It was the only way.
• 6:51
  Speaker 6: A notorious in fletchers, the money lenders where I went
• 6:54
  Speaker 6: upon the pearls. I was ushered into the office of
• 6:57
  Speaker 6: mister Juan Satorius himself when they found out it was
• 6:59
  Speaker 6: the nuth nickolace I had in my pocket. Well, when
• 7:03
  Speaker 6: I entered the door, the old boy was friendliness itself.
• 7:07
  Speaker 6: He stood back at his desk, bowing and wringing his
• 7:10
  Speaker 6: fat little hands. When I pull the pearls out of
• 7:12
  Speaker 6: my pocket, he almost snatched at them. His hand fairly
• 7:16
  Speaker 6: shook as he adjusted his jeweler's eyeglass to one shiny
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  Speaker 6: black eye.
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  Speaker 8: Beautiful, but yes, they are beautiful and so perfectly matched.
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  Speaker 8: Tell the lady may know that I shall be very
• 7:42
  Speaker 8: generous to her. I shall off for seven thousand guineas
• 7:46
  Speaker 8: for her pearls.
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  Speaker 6: But if, mister Satorius, I'm afraid you don't understand. No,
• 7:51
  Speaker 6: the pearls are not for sale. I couldn't sell them
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  Speaker 6: if I wanted to see. They're part of the estate,
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  Speaker 6: and as such her entainment.
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  Speaker 8: In that case, I'm not interested, but surely a slight lonely.
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  Speaker 6: It's only for a short time until the rents from
• 8:06
  Speaker 6: our Lancaster properties are do. My mother must have that operation.
• 8:09
  Speaker 8: Tell her to wait till the rents are paid.
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  Speaker 3: But she can't. Don't you understand that they may leave
• 8:14
  Speaker 3: her blind?
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Please, can't you let me have the money. It's only
• 8:17
  Speaker 6: five hundred guineas. I'll pay any rate of interest.
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  Speaker 8: Young man, you touch my heart, I give you two
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  Speaker 8: hundred and fifteen percent.
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  Speaker 3: Two hundred, but I need five. I must have it.
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  Speaker 8: Three hundred then, but that's the last word, three hundred.
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  Speaker 3: What good is three hundred? In my position?
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  Speaker 2: You are a man of the world.
• 8:39
  Speaker 8: I believe you belong to clubs. No seems to me.
• 8:44
  Speaker 8: I hear you're a good whist player, as your brother
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  Speaker 8: before you. All the main news have what is called
• 8:50
  Speaker 8: the card sense.
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  Speaker 6: No, yes, that is I suppose so. I always managed
• 8:56
  Speaker 6: to win a bit, but I never played for high stakes.
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  Speaker 8: Not you, idiot. A young man with a three hundred
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  Speaker 8: guinea nestache who understands cards can do very well for himself.
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  Speaker 5: No, oh, Robert, who didn't go to one of those
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  Speaker 5: whist clubs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, mother, I chose the bag of Tell the.
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  Speaker 5: Bagateur firsctiful heavens, that's where your brother met that dreadful
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: Colonel Morn who caused his death.
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  Speaker 6: Mother, that was an unfortunate exception. What the Bagotelle is
• 9:36
  Speaker 6: a gentleman's club. They're famous for having the most brilliant
• 9:39
  Speaker 6: but most honest games in all London. Besides, you know
• 9:42
  Speaker 6: the old saying lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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  Speaker 3: But in your case it did. Lord Robert. Yes, I'm afraid, sir,
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  Speaker 3: you hand a particularly bad run of cards. No, I
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: can't even claim that. Then there was no crooked beming.
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  Speaker 4: Oh good lord, No, it was just well, nothing seemed
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: to work out for me, while your opponent's hands dovetail perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: That's about the size of it. Mister Holmes. You played
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: a set game.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: Oh no, sir.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: We cut for partners after every rubber. And who was
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: the big winner? Well it was a mister Horatio Webster.
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  Speaker 6: If he'd been able to see straight through the cards,
• 10:18
  Speaker 6: he could have had better luck.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, mister Horatio Webster, double or nothing.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: Webster. He'd rather gamble the neat I understand, so would
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: I if I had his luck. I wonder if it's
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: all luck.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: No one's luck can be as good as mister Webster's
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  Speaker 4: unless he sold his soul to the devil.
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  Speaker 2: There wouldn't be a metaphor for as yet suggesting the
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  Speaker 2: gentleman isn't entirely honest.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Go to the head of the class, Watson. But we
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: can't prove anything. But what can I do?
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: Justice see that Watson and I are presented with visitors
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: cards to the Bagatelle. I rather think we'd enjoy an
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: evening at the tables.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Homes. Have you taken leave of your senses? You haven't
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: played Whist for over a year.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: Even so, my dear Watson, I fancy I may be
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: able to teach mister double or nothing Webster trick.
• 11:00
  Speaker 9: Or two after all, Homes, Why I have to crawl
• 11:14
  Speaker 9: into this, into this high collar and the stiff shirt,
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  Speaker 9: just to.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Spend the evening playing cards.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: Is more than I stop spluttering, Watson. The bag of
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: tell is a very elegant establishment.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: We us step up to the tradition Bolla dash once more.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: I can't say I look forward to having you as
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: a partner for the entire evening.
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Come now, Watson, my method of playing Whist may be unorthodox,
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  Speaker 4: but it is rather brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly, but it's enough to give you a partner nervous prostration.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: You play every game is a bit of a poker.
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  Speaker 2: I please, Holmes, promise that tonight you won't bluff.
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  Speaker 4: I'll try to control myself, Watson. Now where did I
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: put my lucky shilling?
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: And just remember we've done ever this tend to be
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: having the world out of the bank in order to
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  Speaker 2: have this bling.
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: Don't be so conservative once, and we may lose a
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: bit of our nest egg during the course of the ning,
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: but don't let it upset you. Before the game's over,
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: we shall have won back not only our losses, but
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: enough to pay for Lady Maynooth's operation as well.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: What makes you so sure of that?
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: This shilly, my lucky shilly, I can't possibly lose with
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: that on my side.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Pretty, isn't it.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Where did you get that thing? You never carried a
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: pocket piece before, never needed one before, and how do
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: you know it's so lucky? I've been working on it
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: all afternoon.
• 12:40
  Speaker 10: A Gill and Tonic for doctor Watson, Comfort Scotch and
• 12:43
  Speaker 10: sorld of for Lord Beavers, and another for me, and
• 12:46
  Speaker 10: the Brandy for mister Holmes, the double brandid Comfort.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: Simply the pleasure to welcome you to the Bagatel Club,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: mister Helms.
• 12:52
  Speaker 10: I've heard so much about your mental prowess. I admit
• 12:55
  Speaker 10: I'm prepared to spend the very unprofitable evening show a
• 12:58
  Speaker 10: cut for the deal.
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: Your own reputation is fairly colorful, mister Webster, and they
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: say you've cornered the market on fortuity.
• 13:06
  Speaker 10: Watson heaven a in this club, the Ace is low.
• 13:08
  Speaker 10: Doctor Watson gets the deal if you will each shuffle
• 13:11
  Speaker 10: the cards gentlemen, mister Holmes, fir you next not beabs
• 13:18
  Speaker 10: total beams is quite deaf, you know. Fortunately it doesn't
• 13:21
  Speaker 10: affect his card sense. Oh now my shuffle, and now
• 13:26
  Speaker 10: the dealer. Ah, here are drinks. Your cat, mister Webster
• 13:33
  Speaker 10: hires with pleasure. There deal them out. May the best
• 13:38
  Speaker 10: team win? Shall we play a set game, gentlemen? Or
• 13:42
  Speaker 10: shall we cut or rotate after every rubber?
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: By all means that stay where we are. I'm not
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: the athletic type myself. I loathe that not of bobbing
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: about too much, like playing musical.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Chairs, spades or trumps.
• 13:55
  Speaker 10: Lead please, and that gives us three tricks, which means
• 14:10
  Speaker 10: game and rubber, but not to mention a four on account. Hmm,
• 14:14
  Speaker 10: that's let me see. Yes, you each lose another two
• 14:18
  Speaker 10: pounds eleven and sixpence, gentlemen.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: Dear me, so we do weigh Watson, settle up, old chap.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: That's a good fellow.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: Afraid all I have in my pockets, my lucky shilly.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Doesn't seem to have brought him much luck so far. Home.
• 14:29
  Speaker 10: Give it time, Watson, give it time, Pumfort. Mister Holmes's
• 14:33
  Speaker 10: glasses empty. Thank you, Pumfort cut please, mister Holmes, thank you.
• 14:44
  Speaker 10: I hope you don't mind the way old Pumfort hangs
• 14:45
  Speaker 10: around the table. He's been a way to here for
• 14:48
  Speaker 10: forty years. The game still fascinative, Yes.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: So it seems. Never try a hand at it himself.
• 14:54
  Speaker 10: Good lord, Now there's no one card from another. Ah,
• 14:58
  Speaker 10: clubs are trump this time? Gentlemen, four more points for
• 15:13
  Speaker 10: our side. I'm afraid that's another rubber for us. You
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: better throw away that lucky shilling, mister Holmes, or was
• 15:19
  Speaker 10: that puppet the same all round puppet has indicated the
• 15:23
  Speaker 10: bar is about the clothes.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: It, Scott, isn't that late?
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: You sure you wouldn't like to quit, mister Webster.
• 15:28
  Speaker 10: Not me, as long as my luck holds out, mister Holmes,
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: of course, if you've had it enough.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Oh not at all. We haven't even started to warm up, hey, Watson.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Warm up? Really? Herm is the way you're playing tonight.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Twice you've timped a good trick of mine, and that
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: last lead. What in Heaven's name.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Was that, my dear Watson, don't tell me you didn't
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: recognize it? That's the new American lead. Fourth from your
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: longest and Strongest suit, very ably explained in the Little
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Treatise by mister Nicholas Brown's Twist of New Orleans, USA.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Oh to blazes with mister twist, that gives us another
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: game and rubber.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: And it's getting to be positively monotonously.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Watson Holmes, have you any idea how much we've lost
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: during the night?
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Vaguely wantson vaguely.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I'm found that flash go away.
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: It's getting to be daylight. Even the flies are waking up.
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: Sure you don't want to call it quit?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Just one more rubber, one more loss, and will be
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: cleaned out homes very well.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Want soon before that happens, I'll make you a little
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: side bet. Put a shilling on the table in your corner. Now,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I'll put my lucky shilling here in mine. I'll bet
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: you a guinea that fly lights on my shilling before
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: he does on yours.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Ah, there he goes again over in my corner. That's
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: a good chap.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: That makes ten guineas. I owe you once. And yes, hello,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: here comes another fly to get in the game. Perhaps
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: he'll bring me luck.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I doubt it, but let's get on with the rubber.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: It's indeed.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: I believe it's funny how the last rubber is always
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: the longest, I.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Said, mister Holmes.
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: I wonder if I could enter a shilling on your sweepsticks.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I certainly, mister Webster. But in that case, I think
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I'll turn my coin over just for luck your shuffle.
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: I believe, mister Webster, coy little beggar that fly nearly
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: had him on my coin that time. No, by Jovi's
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: lit on yours, mister Holmes.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Perhaps my luck has changed at last.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Here's five guineas as it hasn't fair enough and out
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that's too steep for me, got mister Webster, Thank you,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Io look at the silly little buzzer.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: Oh you win again, mister Holmes. How about anothergo at it?
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: Same stakes?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Delighted, mister Webster.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought this to yourself? How can I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: get the advantages of group buying and still trade at
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the local independent store? I trust well the answer is
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: really a very simple one. For through the amazing clipper
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Craft Plan, we've made it our business to bring your
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: remarkable values in clothes at the local store of your choice.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It took real planning to accomplish this, and here's what happened.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: The clipper Craft Plan concentrates the buying power are of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: ten hundred thirty six stores from coast to coast, bringing
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you beautifully tailored clipper Craft suits at only forty and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: forty five dollars, top coats and overcoats at only forty dollars,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Yes, selling
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: independent stores is the great, big idea behind the clipper
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Craft Plan. That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: your city.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: add their names to Clippercraft and your suit, top coat
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: and overcoat. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy, Newarck. And in Jamaica,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty four O
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: eight Jamaica Avenue.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And now let's return to the Bagateel club where Holmes
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is trying to lure a fly with this lucky shilling.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Confound it. You win again, mister Holmes.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: That makes two hundred guineas you owe me, mister Webster.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Shall we say double or nothing?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Soul gentlemen, let's not forget there's a wrist game going on.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: That's right, you are a heart, said Trump your lucky suit.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I believe Watson. By the way, did you know that
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: of the original name for Trump's is triumphs. Ah, there's
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the little beast on my coin again. It makes four
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: hundred guineas you owe me, mister Webster. I'll double the bet,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: mister Holmes. If you like Holmes, are you out of
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: your mind? You've nearly run back our losses.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: As I was saying, Trump's were once called triumphs.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: That's what Shakespeare's alluding to an Anthony and clear Patcha
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: when he says she Earras has packed cards with Caesar
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and false played my glory onto an enemy's triumph at
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: four seen twelve.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: I've founded Holmes, fly has chosen your coin again.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: That's eight hundred. You oebe the usual mister Webster, double
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: or nothing, homes?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Are you adding?
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: Excuse me, mister Holmes, I figured the law of averages
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: must break in my direction for a change.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Nice little fly, careful, now there's sixteen hundred guineas riding
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: on you, old champ.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Careful once and don't revoke.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Oh confounded homes. How can I keep my mind on
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the game with a sixteen hundred guinea bet on the tables?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Follow suit? Watson, just follows suit, Oh confounded? Will that
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: fly never liked?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Patience, mister Webster, patience. The history of the game called
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: wist is rather colorful.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: The earliest form was called rough and honored homes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Did anyone ever tell you the word west means hush
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: or shut up? Pray?
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: Do so? Sorry, Watson, I've founded Holmes, the fly has
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: chosen you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: And I take the final trick, which makes game and rubber.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: The evening is finished, gentlemen.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: One moment, mister Holmes, before I settle up, I'd like
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: one look at that shilling of yours with.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Pleasure, mister Webster. The careful of your fingers, though it's
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: slightly sticky, sticky by the Lord Harry and sweet to
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: the taste. I've been robbed, Holmes. You're a chicken, a thief.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I refuse to pay my losses, but.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: A Welsh on your debt say, I wouldn't advise it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: You know, really I wouldn't, or I should be forced
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: to report to the governors of this club that the
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Webster luck at cards is largely due to old Pumfort
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: the waiter. He stands behind your opponent's chair with his
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: silver serving tray angled in such a way that, from
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: where you sit it mirrors every card in your opponent's hand. Well,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: that was a neat little trick on hole part, Doctor Watson.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Did mister Webster pay his debts?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Oh naturally, there was more than enough to cover Lady
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Maynuld's operation and recoup our losses.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: But tell me what was it Holmes had on his
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: lucky shilling to attract the fly.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: A mixture of rum and sugar absolutely visible. You know.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It's an old trick invented by two famous racetrack touts
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: in the nineties. When they had a particularly bad day
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: at the track, they always managed to get into the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: same railway carried with a heavy winner. Needless to say,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: by the time they'd reached London, the winner generally had
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: empty pockets.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, would you like to tell us
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: what story you have in store for us next week?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Let me see. Next week, I think I'll tell you
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: a story that began with a young man in a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: gory bandage who collapsed on my waiting room floor, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: which ended with Holmes finding himself in the tightest spot
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: literally as well as figuratively, of his entire career.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Sounds promising, Doctor Watson, What do you call the story?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: The adventure of the Engineer's come