Latest / Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen / Sherlock Holmes Radio The Naval Treaty Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway
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- 0:01Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, how about that stolen neighbor Treedy.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Yes, let's see.
- 0:06Speaker 1: One July morning.
- 0:08Speaker 3: It was the July which immediately succeeded my marriage. Eh
- 0:12and received a communication from an old school friend, Percy Philips.
- 0:17Percy's mother's brother was Lord Holhurst, the great Conservative politician,
- 0:22and this rather gorder relationship was.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Of little value to him when we were at.
- 0:27Speaker 3: School, I can assure you. However, they let us seem
- 0:30to be fairly urgent. So I headed around to Baker Street.
- 0:35I found Homes in his dressing gown, plunged in the
- 0:38middle of a chemical investigation. A large curved retort was
- 0:43boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner.
- 0:47Seeing the look of concentration on Holmes's face, I seated
- 0:51myself in my old arm chair and waited, hardly daring
- 0:55to breathe.
- 1:13Speaker 1: H Most enlightening, Most enlightening. Yes, you come at a crisis, Watson.
- 1:19If this slip of paper remains blue when it touches
- 1:21the solution, all will be well. If it turned red,
- 1:25it means a man's life. I see sturn it rupt Watson.
- 1:27This is the crucial moment. I watch carefully there, But
- 1:35I see it has burned red and nasty blood red.
- 1:38Blood red is quite correct, Watson, A very commonplace murder.
- 1:42Well that's the end of battle experiment. Hi, fill up
- 1:45your pipe and then hand me the Persian slip on.
- 1:47All right, here you are, so you've come on business, Watson? Yes,
- 1:55but how did you know the letter touched so tightly
- 1:57in your right hand? Not to mention the look of
- 1:59acitment and anxiety on your face. You are the stormy
- 2:03petrol of crime. Watson. What is it with this letter?
- 2:06It came in the morning mail. Read it to me.
- 2:07That's a good chap.
- 2:08Speaker 3: It's from an old schoolfellow of mine. I haven't seen
- 2:10him for years.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Yes, but what did he say?
- 2:13Speaker 3: The letter is headed Briar Bray Woking. My dear Watson,
- 2:17I trust you still remember Tadpole Phelps, who was in
- 2:21the fourth Forem when you were in the third. You
- 2:23may even have heard that through my uncle's influence, I
- 2:26obtained a good appointment at the Foreign Office, where I
- 2:29was in a situation of trust until a horrible misfortune
- 2:33suddenly blasted my career. Do you think you could persuade
- 2:36your friend Sherlock Holmes to come down here to help
- 2:39solve this terrible mess.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Assure him that the only reason I have not asked.
- 2:43Speaker 3: His advice sooner was because I have been completely off
- 2:47my head for nine weeks. I am still so weak
- 2:50that I have to write by dictating, as you see,
- 2:53your old schoolfellow, Percy Phelps, h let.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Me see that letter doesn't tell us very much, does
- 3:00hardly anything. Yet the writing is of interest, but it's
- 3:03not his own. Precisely, it's a woman's, but it looks
- 3:05like a man. No, it's a woman's, and a woman
- 3:07of unusually strong character. It's always interesting to know that
- 3:10your client is in close contact with someone who, for
- 3:13good or evil, has an exceptional nature. Yes, my interest
- 3:16is already awakened in the matter. Then you will take
- 3:18the case. The next train for walking leaves an exactly
- 3:21forty three minutes. Howry, what's no we shall miss.
- 3:23Speaker 4: It if you step in here, gentlemen, I find out
- 3:42if mister Phelps.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Can see you.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Dear, dear, Well, the old place hasn't changed since the
- 3:50days when I used to visit here on my vacations.
- 3:53Speaker 1: It makes me feel quite young again.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Ah, show our curves, I perceive and Dr Watson too,
- 3:59I presume, so glad you could come. Percy's been inquiring
- 4:02for you all morning. Poor chap it clings to any straw.
- 4:06Speaker 1: My dear man, I may look as thin as a straw,
- 4:08but I promise you I have more weight mentally. I've
- 4:11to see you yourself and not a member of the family. Oh,
- 4:14dear me, how did you know the monogram on the
- 4:16pocket of your blazer?
- 4:17Speaker 5: J H Of course, of course, But a moment I
- 4:20thought you had done something clever.
- 4:22Speaker 2: My name is Hardison, Joseph Edison.
- 4:24Speaker 5: Percy is engaged to marry my sister Annie, so I
- 4:27shall soon be a relation by marriage. At any rate.
- 4:31My sister is with him now. She's nursed him hand
- 4:33and foot during these trying two months.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Soothing his fevered brow. Eh, lucky fellow.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yes, you will find them in his room, My room rather.
- 4:41Speaker 5: At least it used to be my room until he
- 4:44came home after the catastrophe and corpsed. They couldn't carry
- 4:48him upstairs he was in such a state, so they
- 4:50took him into my room.
- 4:53Speaker 2: We'd better go in it once. I know how impatient he
- 4:56is to see you.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Yes, this conversation is delightful, But after all, we did
- 4:59come to see mister Phelps.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, quite so go on this way. It's
- 5:02in this swing next to the dining room.
- 5:04Speaker 1: You say, this is the door. I'll leave you here.
- 5:06You can come in if you like. Oh no, thank you.
- 5:08Speaker 5: No invalids are always depressing, and with this misfortune hanging
- 5:12over his head, poor fellow, very well, come in.
- 5:19Speaker 6: Oh you've come at last, at least I presume this
- 5:22is Sherlock Holmes.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Quite and how is your patient? Well, he's much better,
- 5:25thank you? What's in my dear fellow? Well tell you
- 5:27that I hardly knew you under that mustache. I didn't
- 5:31delight to see your both. This is my fanswer, Miss Harrison.
- 5:35Please sit down. Shall I leave Percy? Oh no, don't
- 5:38go any if you don't mind, mister Herbs, not at all.
- 5:41I feel much steadier when she's here. Quite and now
- 5:44this Phelps, Well you see, mister Herbs, it's like this.
- 5:48I was a happy and successful man, even being married,
- 5:52and then this dreadful misfortune wrecked my life. I'm a
- 5:56broken man, my honor God, I I ruined.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Ruined Percy.
- 6:00Speaker 6: Please you'll make yourself ill again.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and perhaps you'd better just tell us the
- 6:05facts as quietly as you can. So, of course, mister Holmes,
- 6:09I was, as Watson may have told you, in the
- 6:11Foreign Office, in a responsible position. My uncle, Lord Holdhurst
- 6:15is the foreign minister, you know well, nearly eight years ago,
- 6:20weeks rather the twenty third of May to me exact,
- 6:23he called me into his private room and informed that
- 6:26he had a commission of trust for me to execute.
- 6:42Speaker 7: Come in, Come in, Oh it's you, Percy. Anyone out
- 6:48there in the hall nursing good, Come in and lock
- 6:52the door.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Now come over here.
- 6:55Speaker 7: I want to make sure we can't be overheard.
- 6:58Speaker 1: That's it. What's up, uncle? You look tremendously solemn. It's
- 7:01a solemn matter, Percy. You see this piece of paper.
- 7:05Speaker 7: It's a secret treaty covering our naval situation in the Mediterranean.
- 7:10Harmless enough in itself, but a bombshell. If it should
- 7:12fall into the hands of well certain government, the very
- 7:19walls may have years.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Persy.
- 7:21Speaker 7: Let us merely say the country of X. You understand,
- 7:25I understand. I want you to make a copy of it.
- 7:28I must have a complete copy by tomorrow morning. You
- 7:31may have to work on it the better part of
- 7:33the night.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, sir. Joseph and his brother you know,
- 7:36is going to stop buy for me. We're going to
- 7:38take the nine o'clock train together. He can tell the
- 7:40family I've been kept in town on business.
- 7:41Speaker 7: Very well, but leave the message with the commissionaire downstairs.
- 7:45I don't want anyone in your room when you're copying
- 7:48that document.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Very good, sir.
- 7:50Speaker 7: When you've finished, you can put the document and the
- 7:53copy in my safe. You know the combination. I believe,
- 7:57certainly that's all percy. But don't forget. You hold the
- 8:02peace of Europe in your hands. I won't forget. Good night,
- 8:07Uncle Bert, good night. This is the way I'll have
- 8:13to make a night of it.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Ay. Well, hello, Gotta, you're still here.
- 8:23Speaker 5: Oh yes, I had some details to clear up, so
- 8:26I thought you'd want me to stay.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, Gotta. You can finish tomorrow, Yes, sir,
- 8:31are you sure you won't need me? No? Thanks, doesn't
- 8:36look as though I have a chance to go out
- 8:37for dinner. At least I can bring for coffee. Oh confounded?
- 8:43That bell pulls twisted again. Huh rains coming down harder
- 8:50than ever. Nice jolly little evening.
- 8:53Speaker 2: This is you?
- 8:55Speaker 1: Sure?
- 8:55Speaker 2: There's nothing I can do with to the phelps?
- 8:56Speaker 1: Good lord?
- 8:57Speaker 8: No gota run along? Good night, sir, good I gotta hello,
- 9:15are you?
- 9:15Speaker 1: I'm the Commissioner's wife, sir. What's more, I'm the child
- 9:19idea around here, the child lady. I see. I don't
- 9:23believe I've ever had the pleasure of making your acquaintance before. No, sir,
- 9:26that you haven't. If you mean what I think you do,
- 9:30would you inquire if your esteem spouse would spare me
- 9:32a coup of the excellent coffee he keeps hot for
- 9:35any pay slaves of the Empire who are obliged to
- 9:38work at night.
- 9:39Speaker 7: You mean, herb, we should bring you half a cup
- 9:40of coffee.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Yes, please, I'll see what I can do about Yes,
- 9:45use your influence. Well let's have a look at that treaty.
- 9:51Mm great Britain triple Alliance. Yes, French leaped complete ascendency.
- 10:14Speaker 7: Oh it's no use, I'm too drowsy.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Oh is the guy would have a cup of coffee? Herbert,
- 10:27I say, Herbert coffee? Oh found a fellow draft all
- 10:32the way downstairs, Herbert. Mm hmm, fast asleep, Herbert, Wake up?
- 10:46Speaker 9: Hell.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Well, Oh it's you, mister Philps. Yes, I came down
- 10:52to see my coffee was ready. But I think the
- 10:54front doorbells rang bell? Yes, but if you was here,
- 11:00who rang that bell? What bell? I told you it
- 11:03was that it's the bell of the room you was
- 11:05working inside. Great thunder my bell. There's no one up there. Treaty,
- 11:10Oh good, heavens. I left it on the table quick, covid.
- 11:12We've got to get up there. Something terrible is heavening. Go,
- 11:17don't run so faster, Gray Cord. It's not too late.
- 11:21Wad I lopened the door, stand back of it.
- 11:23Speaker 2: He be armed.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I got my army revolver. There's no one here. What
- 11:29look the treaty. The treaty is gone? Or who could
- 11:32have taken it?
- 11:33Speaker 7: No one's been in the front way tonight, sir.
- 11:35Speaker 1: And there was no one in the rooms but yourself.
- 11:38My wife says, so then you must have comped the
- 11:40stairs in the side door and slipped out that way too.
- 11:42You're after in heaven quickly. You may not be too late.
- 11:44Pray man, hurry, don't you go out, sir? You miss
- 11:47your besked to the skin. Hell, there's a policeman on
- 11:55the corner. Have he's seen something? I say, Bobby, if
- 11:57if youre there's been a robbery in the poll an office?
- 11:59Has any passed this way? It's tending a quarter of
- 12:02an hour soon. Only one living souls passed in that time?
- 12:04Who was it that all old lady in Appaisley Shaw.
- 12:07She seemed in a hurry, for that was my wife?
- 12:09Which way did she go? You're just wasting your time, sir,
- 12:12and every minutes of importance. It's all right, we'll go
- 12:15back and forward. Scotland Yard. Oh, it is terrible, terrible,
- 12:18we're ruined. Uh, never you mind, sir.
- 12:21Speaker 7: You'll lose your posts perhaps, but they can't do nothing,
- 12:24so dreadful to you.
- 12:26Speaker 1: It's not myself I'm thinking of.
- 12:27Speaker 8: It's England.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Well offices from Scotland Yard. We're waiting for the charwoman
- 12:46when she got home. And what did they find? Nothing?
- 12:49Absolutely nothing? And god did they trace him, yes, mister Holmes,
- 12:53but again nothing was found. I was frantic, out of
- 12:56my mind. They had to get a doctor to take
- 12:58me home. I was delirious seven weeks and these two
- 13:01people got own the charwoman. They've been under observation ever since.
- 13:04I suppose, Yes, with no results. You say it had
- 13:07been raining all evening. Yes, but you found no traces
- 13:10of any kind in the room. No footprints, I mean
- 13:12absolutely none, not even those are the charwoman's muddy boots.
- 13:16How do you explain that? Well, the charwomen in the
- 13:18habit of taking off their boots and wearing just carpet slippers.
- 13:21No footprints. Eh, has been lightening. Must have come in
- 13:24a cab and got away that way too the next day.
- 13:27The policeman's not seeing not in mister Phelps. Could anyone
- 13:30have been concealed in the room or in the corridor? Impossible?
- 13:33There there was no cover of any kind, windows thirty
- 13:36feet above the ground and locked on the inside. That
- 13:38it must have been the side door. Who knew you
- 13:41were to have the treaty in your possession? No, I'd
- 13:43take my oath on it. In your opinion, what would
- 13:46happen if those papers were to fall into the hands
- 13:48of a rival government war almost instantaneously? But it's eight
- 13:53weeks and we're not at war. Therefore it's not unfair
- 13:56to suppose the treaty hasn't reached them. I don't imagine
- 13:58the thief took the treaty in all to frame it
- 14:00quite when he's undoubtedly waiting for a better price. There's
- 14:04only one clue that puzzles me. What is that the bell?
- 14:07Did someone ring it to prevent the crime or was
- 14:09it an accident? If we only knew why the bell
- 14:12was run, we should have the solution of this case.
- 14:14It's even possible if he didn't. Of course, of course,
- 14:19what a fool I was not to think of that before.
- 14:21You think you can help me, possibly possibly, God bless
- 14:23you for that, mister Holmes.
- 14:25Speaker 6: If we can keep our courage and our patience, the
- 14:27truth must come out. But Percy has won more adventure
- 14:30to tell you about. You're sure you're strong enough, darling.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Oh, I feel better than I have for days. Hope
- 14:35is a splendid tonic anny. And what was this other incident,
- 14:38mister Phelps. Well, you see, mister Holmes, last night was
- 14:41the very first night that I'd slept without a nurse
- 14:43in my rooms. I was rather wakeful. I had a
- 14:47nightmare or two, and suddenly I heard a slight noise,
- 14:51kind of noise like a mouse gnawing a plank. It
- 14:55grew louder, and all at once there was a sharp,
- 14:57metallic snack someone forcing the wind. As I realized that too,
- 15:01I jumped out of bed and flung open the shutters.
- 15:03A man was crouching in the window. He was gone
- 15:06like a flash. What do you look like? I don't
- 15:08really know. He was wrapped in some sort of cloak
- 15:10which had come across the lower part of his face. Oh,
- 15:12A one thing I am sure of. He had a
- 15:14long weapon in his hand that looked like a knife.
- 15:17I saw the gleam of it as he turned to run.
- 15:18I shouted after him, and then then I must have
- 15:22collapsed from the effort. The next thing I knew, I
- 15:24was surrounded by the entire household. Oh, Joseph and the
- 15:27groom found marks in the flower bed outside this window.
- 15:30You could see them from where you sit. Hear me, Yes,
- 15:33I'm afraid Joseph and the groom have been a bit
- 15:34too energetic for me to learn anything from the traces.
- 15:37A flower bed looks as if it had been trampled
- 15:39on by an army. Oh, I'm sorry. Why should a burglar,
- 15:42if it was a burglar, choose to enter this room.
- 15:44The dining room windows are much larger and more accessible.
- 15:47Speaker 6: I can't imagine anless well unless it's a plot against Percy.
- 15:51Speaker 1: If that sounds a bit melodramatic, ed at all, as
- 15:54something in what Miss Hallison says so much that Doctor
- 15:57Watson and I are got to take you up to
- 15:58London with us.
- 15:59Speaker 6: Yes, but he's not very strong.
- 16:01Speaker 1: You know the trip to London will not be nearly
- 16:03so dangerous to your fiance, Miss Harrison as another night
- 16:06in this room and another thing, Miss Harrison, you can
- 16:09be very helpful to answer to mister Help help mister Phelps.
- 16:12If you'll do one thing for me, you may take courage,
- 16:14but I think I can promise that you will be
- 16:16in no great personal danger. What is it you want
- 16:18me to do? Stay in this room until you go
- 16:20to bed tonight. Don't leave it for an instant, Mister Phelps,
- 16:23reputation and my whole future may depend on it. I'm
- 16:26not going to ask you to sleep here, but when
- 16:28you leave for the night, I want you to lock
- 16:29the bedroom door on the outside. Yes, but look here,
- 16:32something might happen. Not a word to anyone. It's for
- 16:34his sake. Remember, come in lunch, everybody. Something is specially
- 16:39nice for you. Percy. Come along, Anny, oh.
- 16:41Speaker 6: Joseph, if you'll excuse me. I have a slight headache.
- 16:45I think I'll eat in here by myself.
- 16:48Speaker 10: There's a breeze, and I want to be alone.
- 17:13Speaker 1: I can't say I enjoyed cross country walks in the
- 17:15middle of the night, Watson. I thought we were going
- 17:17back to London. That's what you told everybody.
- 17:21Speaker 3: We get on the train with Percy and the nurse
- 17:23and then we get off at the next station and
- 17:25leave Percy and the nurse to go up to London alone.
- 17:28Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense. Stop fussing. He'll be all right.
- 17:30I sent him on to Baker Street. With any luck,
- 17:32we should be there ourselves in time to have breakfast
- 17:34with him. Yes, but why sneak back to Briar Bray
- 17:37like this? Not so loud? There's the house now, you
- 17:40can see its gables in the moonlight. Follow me here
- 17:44through the hedge. But why the hedge when the gate's open.
- 17:46Not so loud.
- 17:48Speaker 9: We've got to get as near as a house as
- 17:49possible without being seen.
- 17:51Speaker 3: I say, there's quite a myster rising, ghostly looking white
- 17:55strips of it over there in the meadow. I say, look,
- 18:00the lamp is still lit. Him pleasant, I mean in
- 18:02Joseph's room. Miss Hallison must have kept her promise.
- 18:05Speaker 9: Sh Yes, there she is reading a book. Now she's
- 18:14put it down. She's picking up the lamp.
- 18:19Speaker 11: I say, Holmes, she must be getting ready to.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Go to bed, quite possibly, Watson. I only hope she
- 18:24doesn't forget to lock the door on the outside. There
- 18:27she goes to the dining room. Now the light's gone.
- 18:34Speaker 3: I see the mists are creeping up in the meadow. Y,
- 18:38if only the thief doesn't wait until they blanket the house.
- 18:42Speaker 11: Look, the service door is opening. Excellent.
- 18:47Speaker 1: I didn't think he'd wait very long.
- 18:50Speaker 11: There he comes out into the moonlight. He's waiting a
- 18:54long black keep. You can't see his face. He's forcing
- 19:00the window. He's kind of open. He's climbing over the sill.
- 19:06We must get closer so we can see.
- 19:09Speaker 1: I see he's letting the candles on the mantle.
- 19:13Speaker 11: Look, he's putting back the rug in the floor. I
- 19:18thought so he's lifting up aboard.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Now, then, mister Joseph Harrison, he good enough to hand
- 19:26over the papers you've just removed from that hiding pace. Hold,
- 19:28he's got a knife. You really have to see clipper
- 19:44craft clothes to know their excellence, and it's easy enough
- 19:47to see them right at your own local independent store.
- 19:51You have to see them because such superlatively fine quality
- 19:55sold at such low prices amazes even the experts. Suits
- 19:58are only forty dollars and forty three seventy five top
- 20:02coats and overcoats are only forty dollars, and sport jackets
- 20:05only twenty five dollars. The fit is beautiful, the woolens
- 20:08are long wearing, the tailoring is really superb. The famous
- 20:12clipper Craft plan makes this sheer magic possible, concentrating the
- 20:16buying power of nine hundred and twenty four leading stores
- 20:20across the nation, giving you the savings from this group.
- 20:23Buying at the store you trust. Selling expensive clothes at
- 20:27inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest independent stores is
- 20:31the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft Plan. That's why
- 20:35men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes, So be sure
- 20:39to visit the Clippercraft store in your city.
- 20:42Speaker 12: The leading stores in the metropolitan area that bring you
- 20:45Clippercraft clothes are Sacks thirty fourth Broadway of thirty fourth Street, Manhattan,
- 20:49Abraham and Strauss, Brooklyn, the Boulevard Men's Shop, Creskin Ewick, Newick,
- 20:53New Jersey, and the B and B Clothes Shop, one
- 20:56sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica. These great, courteous
- 21:00and friendly stores are proud to add their names to
- 21:03that of Clippercraft in the label of your suit, top coat,
- 21:07sports jacket and overcoat. Now let's return to two twenty
- 21:24one B Baker Street, where Percy Phelps is anxiously awaiting
- 21:27the arrival of Sherlock Holmes.
- 21:37Speaker 1: But it's almost nine now, Missus Hudson, and Holmes said
- 21:39they'd be here for breakfast at nine. Now, don't you worry,
- 21:41mister Phelps. If he says he'll be here for breakfast,
- 21:44he'll be here. It's when he don't say that, that's
- 21:48when you don't know whether it'll be breakfast or supper.
- 21:51He'll be wanting next. What did I.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Tell you here?
- 21:55Speaker 1: They are now driving up in a handsome cab.
- 22:02Speaker 3: There's the front door and it's nine to the second.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Good morning, Missus Hudson, Good morning, sir. Breakfast is on
- 22:10the tablets. What I say, homes, you've been wounded, your
- 22:14hands all tied up just to scratch hmm, breakfast, three
- 22:20covered dishes, splendid and plenty of steaming coffee. Excellent? Did
- 22:27you I mean income? Come? Business can wait until after breakfast.
- 22:31You look as if you needed a bit of nourishment,
- 22:32mister Phelps. Well I'm rilling up, really hungry. Well we are,
- 22:35Andrey Watson, I'm revenous. Ha ha what's this? Mm? Carry
- 22:43chicken and this ham and eggs? Better and better? Which
- 22:51will you take? Mister Phelps? Thank you. I couldn't touch
- 22:53a thing or come try the dish before you. I'd
- 22:55rather not. Really, Well, then I suppose you have no
- 22:57objection to helping me. Let's see what that dish contains.
- 23:01Certainly what it's papers, it's the neighbor, a treaty, the neighbor. Oh,
- 23:08God bless you, mister Holmes, God bless you. You saved
- 23:12me and you have saved England. Don't mention it, my
- 23:15dear Chap, don't mention it. But when that thorns first
- 23:31began to suspect that Harrison fellow, doctor Watson, when.
- 23:34Speaker 3: He heard that pers he was expecting to stop bad
- 23:36for him. Mister Harris, I'm afraid Joseph's character was blacker
- 23:40than one would judge from his appearance we learnedlyter that
- 23:44he had lost heavily in dabbling in stocks, and he.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Thought he could turn the treaty into money.
- 23:48Speaker 3: Yes, besides, no one but Joseph could be so anxious
- 23:51to get into that bedroom, because no one but Joseph
- 23:54could have concealed anything there. Also, the attempt was me
- 23:58the first night the nurse was out of the way.
- 24:01Therefore the intruder was well acquainted with the house. But
- 24:04the bell, Doctor Watson, why was that so significant? Well,
- 24:07mister Harrison showed that the thief had not come there
- 24:10to pass his office.
- 24:11Speaker 1: To steal the papers.
- 24:12Speaker 3: He he came for another reason by appointment.
- 24:15Speaker 1: As we know. He rang the bell and then happened
- 24:18to see the papers, Doctor Watson. Was he convicted, No,
- 24:22the case was never brought to court.
- 24:24Speaker 3: It would have been a too ticklish a position for
- 24:26the Foreign Office.
- 24:28Speaker 1: He was advice, however, to get out of the country
- 24:30and stay out, and did personally marry the sister doctor
- 24:33He did, And.
- 24:35Speaker 3: To this day I don't believe she knows why her
- 24:37brother never returns to England.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Why that was an exciting case, doctor Watson. And now
- 24:41what story are we to have next week. Will let
- 24:44me see.
- 24:45Speaker 3: Next week, I think I'll tell about the Cornish horror
- 24:50or the Cradle that rocked itself.
- 24:52Speaker 1: The cradle that rocked itself, yes, mister Harris.
- 24:55Speaker 3: The the rocking cradle was supposed to indicate that someone
- 24:58in the Travening household was about to die. As a
- 25:01matter of fact, there were two deaths and another The
- 25:04turbines are the suppose I leave that till next weeknd