Latest / Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes Radio The Naval Treaty Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway

Transcript

Sherlock Holmes Radio The Naval Treaty Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway · Sherlock Holmes

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