Latest / Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen / Sherlock Holmes Radio The Purloined Ruby Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway
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- 0:01Speaker 1: And now let's visit our old friend, doctor Watson.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Up here on the patio, mister Portman, some one out
- 0:11and join me.
- 0:12Speaker 3: Firing the sunset ey doctor.
- 0:14Speaker 4: Yes, my boy, it's a particularly beautiful.
- 0:16Speaker 3: One where the puppies this evening asleep on a favorite
- 0:19tweet coat of mine.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Let's just come back from the cleat.
- 0:23Speaker 3: And you hadn't the heart to move them?
- 0:24Speaker 4: I suppose no, I hadn't.
- 0:25Speaker 2: The little fellows looked so comfortable. In fact, I sometimes
- 0:28wonder if you haven't come here to listen to a
- 0:33dissertation on.
- 0:33Speaker 4: The behavior of dogs.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Well it is getting your story time, doctor, Yes.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Of course it is. Well, just let me get my
- 0:40pipe propably lighted. Ah at you.
- 0:46Speaker 4: The story I'm going to tell you tonight began in
- 0:49nineteen hundred and nine I received.
- 0:52Speaker 2: A telegram from my old friend telling me that he
- 0:54was leaving his Sussex b farm and coming to London
- 0:57for a few days. I haven't seen the great man
- 1:00and for several months, so naturally I went to Victoria
- 1:02Station to meet him.
- 1:04Speaker 4: As a train drew to a stop, the door.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Of a first cast carriage run open and Shelock Holmes
- 1:09hand out stretch jumped down onto the platform.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Degree, what's my dear fellow?
- 1:14Speaker 4: How are you o? Ho, my dear for it's good
- 1:16to see you again. I've missed you.
- 1:19Speaker 5: And are you watcha Erry Bates? Yes, Patron gets a
- 1:22handsome cab with him.
- 1:23Speaker 4: I wish I'd got a spare room for you.
- 1:25Speaker 5: It's nice to be very comfortable at the Diogenes Club,
- 1:28by the way, I touch your free this evening.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Here's naturally what are your plans, pob we go to
- 1:31the Thera?
- 1:33Speaker 4: Oh? What play do you want to see? All right?
- 1:35Speaker 5: If we go to the Savoy Thera and see the
- 1:37Shellock Holms play, I hear it's enormously success.
- 1:39Speaker 4: I know it is, but I've avoided it.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I'm told that to Claude Houghton takes strict liberties with
- 1:44your character. And as for the actor portraying me, my
- 1:47friends told me to travister he makes me nothing but
- 1:51a bumbling old fool.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Therefore, a visit to the play might be a salutary
- 1:56experience for both of us. Then, in case, my trip
- 1:58to London is a response to her urgent telegram from
- 2:01Support himself seems to eat my help Rothera badly.
- 2:03Speaker 3: Oh, it trouble well, he wasn't specific in his telegram.
- 2:06Speaker 5: He suggested, however, if you attend to Night's performance and
- 2:09discuss the matter with him afterwards.
- 2:11Speaker 4: I see, well, I suppose if you can sit through it,
- 2:13I can.
- 2:14Speaker 5: Of course, you can alfer on. In any case, you
- 2:16yourself are part responsible for place existence. Are you mean
- 2:21those sensational stories you wrote of my muddiest problems. I
- 2:25should have seen where they would eventually lead you in time?
- 2:28No doubt missile be portrayed on the cinematograph as well.
- 2:32Speaker 4: Nons that new fangled things on their toil.
- 2:35Speaker 5: I think that, Watson, we're on the edge of a strange,
- 2:37new mechanical world. In fact, I begin to feel a
- 2:39certain concern about the rumored developments and Willace Telegraphy not
- 2:44enough of these predictions. Here it comes our order with
- 2:47a cab. We'll tell the driver to take a strict
- 2:49to the Savoy Kurra.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Just look at that line of people at the box
- 3:06and the box office home, very papping old chap Well.
- 3:09Speaker 4: Possibly, but I hope it doesn't mean that we've got
- 3:11a way to our turn.
- 3:13Speaker 5: Excuse me, gentlemen, you're mister Shellock Holmes and doctor Watson
- 3:16on chair. Yes, yes, I thought I couldn't be mistaken.
- 3:19My name is Frank Fellers. I do the quard is
- 3:23a box reserved for you.
- 3:24Speaker 3: He asked me to see that you are quite comfortably
- 3:25considered of him. Will you follow me?
- 3:27Speaker 4: Please?
- 3:28Speaker 3: Thank you. Neither of you have seen the play before.
- 3:31I understand no, mister Fellows, we haven't.
- 3:34Speaker 6: There.
- 3:34Speaker 5: I imagined be a strange experiencing ourselves portrayed on the stage.
- 3:39By the way, I'm playing the part of an old
- 3:41friend of yours, Professor Moriarty.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Oh, indeed, I'm looking forward to a very entertaining evening.
- 3:47I presume that you just caape hard clutches as you was.
- 3:49Speaker 5: Will Yes, I do, mister Holmes, and I've done it
- 3:52nightly now for one hundred and thirty seven before hors
- 3:55record that I'm sure Professor Morriyaski himself would end had
- 3:58it not been for his memorable demise of the raton backfalls.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Ah.
- 4:02Speaker 5: Here we are, gentlemen. This is the Boxers there for you.
- 4:09And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to
- 4:11my dressing role. Oh oh, I never forgot this.
- 4:13Speaker 3: The host, so the cord asked me to give you
- 4:15this note.
- 4:15Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 4:16Speaker 5: I know, well, I'll see you later.
- 4:20Speaker 4: Hum, very nice fuller for an actor.
- 4:23Speaker 3: There'll be a smart Watson.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Well, what does the claud note? Sir?
- 4:27Speaker 3: I'll read it to you.
- 4:29Speaker 4: Yeare home?
- 4:29Speaker 3: Since I telegraphed you yesterday. That have been strange developments.
- 4:33Speaker 5: In fact, I've been doing some detective work off stage
- 4:35as well as on. Watch the performance tonight, and watch
- 4:38the audience too, particularly the occupant of the box opposite yours.
- 4:43Please come to my dressing room as soon as the
- 4:45last kitting has fallen.
- 4:46Speaker 4: And he's been very mysterious. And the box opposite ours
- 4:49is empty.
- 4:50Speaker 3: No, no, no, look, what's you look? Someone has just entered,
- 4:53confounded the house, lights going out the first texts beginning
- 4:56Home the purse axt Yes, well said back and relaxed,
- 5:01old fellow. Let's see what they're done to us?
- 5:16Speaker 4: Well, what did you think of the first act? Home?
- 5:18Speaker 3: Huh? All?
- 5:19Speaker 5: The first act is yes, I was examining the occupant
- 5:23of the box office ours, an attractive young lady alone
- 5:27and unusually preoccupied in her program. In fact, one might
- 5:31assume that she was trying to hide our face.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Is that the play don't you think it's ridiculous? Just
- 5:35imagine a crown jeweled in stone and love.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Why not?
- 5:39Speaker 3: It's been attempted many times.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Anyhow, you must admit that the actor who's portraying me
- 5:43behaves like like a blithering idiot, and so Claud's interpretation.
- 5:48Speaker 4: Of you is pretty far fetched.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Barthetched the flapping Watson. What poise? What suavity? What a poise?
- 5:55I find myself thoroughly entertained.
- 5:56Speaker 4: You are a strange chap Holmes accounting for taste?
- 6:00Speaker 3: Stop what to look the back of the box over there?
- 6:03Good lord, I could have sworn a man dodged behind
- 6:05the curtain. I don't think the girls saw him there
- 6:08attract a partner. I think as the young ladies alone,
- 6:12we will take a little bit of joining her.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Oh dash it. There go the lights again the second
- 6:18act starting.
- 6:18Speaker 5: Man, and sit down below. We don't want to attract attention,
- 6:21and we will join her during the.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Next Intermissionman, why are you?
- 6:40Speaker 4: What do you want with me?
- 6:41Speaker 3: My name is Shelock Combs and this is my colleague,
- 6:43Dr Watson.
- 6:44Speaker 4: How do you do, young lady?
- 6:45Speaker 5: I hope you'll forgive this intrusion, but support the questioned
- 6:47that I keep an eye on you during the play tonight.
- 6:50Speaker 3: He's coming in sit down, won't you thank you?
- 6:54Speaker 4: This is very kind of you.
- 6:56Speaker 6: Must forgive my abruptness just now, and I've just been
- 6:58watching share that cones and to Watson being impersonated on
- 7:01the stage. It's it's rather startling to have the real
- 7:03couple walk into my box.
- 7:05Speaker 3: I quite understand.
- 7:06Speaker 5: By the way, just before the curtain went up on
- 7:08the second Egg guy, I thought I noticed a man
- 7:10coming to the neck of this box and then disappear again.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Were you aware of his presence? No?
- 7:14Speaker 6: No, I didn't see him, but I know who it
- 7:16is and following me for weeks now.
- 7:18Speaker 4: You'd like to tell us about it, Miss.
- 7:21Speaker 6: Henshaw, Alicia Henshaw, Yes I would, as a matter of fact.
- 7:25That's why I'm here tonight. Sir Claude Houghton's an old
- 7:27friend of my father's. I went to ask his advice.
- 7:30He did some investigating himself for a few days, and
- 7:32then he found himself a little out of his depth,
- 7:34though he decided to telegraph for you, mister Holmes. We
- 7:37were going to meet in his dressing room after the
- 7:39performance tonight.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Blender and Amas Henshaw, what is your story?
- 7:43Speaker 6: It's strange when, mister Holmes, though I didn't realize just
- 7:46how strange until I first saw this play a few
- 7:48nights ago. You see, my story concerns a stolen ruby.
- 7:52Speaker 4: Lord Tonight's fair of all around the same thing exactly.
- 7:56Speaker 6: I might as well tell you how it all started.
- 7:59My brother's officer in the British Army stationed in Egypt
- 8:02earlier this year. He saved the life of a very
- 8:04important native personage and some uprising in Cairo, and was
- 8:07rewarded with a magnificent ruby. This jewel he sent to
- 8:10my uncle Timothy and me. Or where the last did
- 8:13the Henschager?
- 8:14Speaker 4: You see?
- 8:14Speaker 3: Did you bother tell you the name of this personage?
- 8:16He didn't know it, mister Holmes.
- 8:18Speaker 4: Apparently the whole affair.
- 8:19Speaker 3: Was hushed up, I see. Please continue.
- 8:21Speaker 6: The trouble began shortly after Uncle Timothy and I received
- 8:24the ruby. A description of it was published in the.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Papers, and a few days later a message came.
- 8:28Speaker 6: To us from an Egyptian Muhammad Ali, laying claim to
- 8:31the stone as one stolen from his family years ago.
- 8:34He sent an expert to our house who examined the
- 8:36ruby under a lens, mister Holmes, and then kept it
- 8:39with a hammer. It fell to pieces.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Twas a fraud, gracious way, an amazing thing.
- 8:45Speaker 3: I'm sure that's not the end of the story, Miss Henshaw.
- 8:47Speaker 6: Oh no, mister Holmes. I wrote and told my brother
- 8:50what had happened. He became very suspicious and suggested that
- 8:53I investigate the credentials of the expert that examined the stone.
- 8:57Speaker 5: I think I can finish the story for you the
- 8:59supposed expert, But it was a dueltief who substituted a
- 9:01paste ruby for the real one, destroyed the imitation, and
- 9:04walked off for the treasure.
- 9:05Speaker 3: And it's no trick. Of course. You haven't been able
- 9:08to find any trace of the supposed expert.
- 9:10Speaker 6: Well, that's the funny part of mister Holmes. Uncle Timothy
- 9:13and I gave a description to the police, but it
- 9:15was a very vague.
- 9:16Speaker 4: One, I'm afraid.
- 9:18Speaker 6: All the time, Uncle said, the man reminded him of
- 9:20a colleague of his many years ago at the university,
- 9:23a professor of mathematics.
- 9:25Speaker 3: He couldn't think of his name, but when we first
- 9:28saw the play a few nights ago, he was reminded
- 9:30of it. The name was Marierti, Mariatti. But Mariarti is dead,
- 9:35as Hanshaw, you saying you have been shadow it for
- 9:38some weeks.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Yes, by an Egyptian. They've stolen the ruby, mister Holmes,
- 9:42why don't they leave me alone?
- 9:44Speaker 5: That Miss Henshaw represents a very fascinating problem and one
- 9:47that I shall be most happy to help you solve.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Thank you so much, mister very good lights again last.
- 9:52Speaker 5: Act, Yes, the last act of this little play, but
- 9:55not I fear of miss Henshaw's problems. Let's meet after
- 9:59the ad dressing room shawin well, Holmes, how did you
- 10:16enjoy the player? Very maks the card? May I introduce
- 10:19my old friend, doctor Watson.
- 10:20Speaker 4: How are you doing with the card?
- 10:21Speaker 3: Hi?
- 10:21Speaker 4: Doctor?
- 10:22Speaker 5: I see you've already made the acquaintance of miss Hamshaw,
- 10:24and she no doubts has totally her trouble.
- 10:26Speaker 4: Then, and mister Holmes is promised to help me splendid.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Tell me Watson, how did you like the play?
- 10:34Speaker 4: The interesting is the claude not quite accurate?
- 10:37Speaker 3: Of course? Well you you have to allow us a
- 10:39little dramatic license. You know, what did you think of Rodney,
- 10:42the man who was portraying you?
- 10:44Speaker 2: Dot oh, since you mentioned it, I think the fellow
- 10:47needs to study dictionary.
- 10:49Speaker 5: Mumble so much, sir, Come no, fellow, I think there
- 10:54are times when you're so hard to understand yourself or rubbish.
- 10:58Speaker 4: It's the Claude.
- 10:58Speaker 3: I hope fuel meets.
- 11:00Speaker 5: The Diogenes Club and then we can go out and
- 11:02have some supper. Excellent idea. I'll join you there after
- 11:04I've taken off my mate blended.
- 11:06Speaker 4: I think I should be going home now to Claude.
- 11:08Speaker 6: I gave my address to mister Holmes, so he knows
- 11:10where to get in touch with me.
- 11:11Speaker 5: Very well, Miss Hanshoran, don't wordy. I shall give you
- 11:13a problem, my undivided attention. I'll take you to your cab,
- 11:16My dear, there's no need to say nonsense, insists.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Miss Hatchaw And good.
- 11:23Speaker 4: Night, goodnight strange business homes. Will you make of it all?
- 11:29Speaker 3: Very little as yet, but it's a fascinating problem.
- 11:31Speaker 2: So claud really seems to her have identified himself with
- 11:35the character of Sherlock Holmes.
- 11:37Speaker 4: He gave me the impression that he feels quite capable
- 11:39of solving the case by himself.
- 11:43Speaker 5: Hello, Claude hasn't left. He's coming back. In a moment,
- 11:48how'd you like to play, gentlemen?
- 11:49Speaker 4: Very much?
- 11:50Speaker 3: Your own performances, My Yati was most convincing.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Indeed, so congratulations, congratulations. A couple of times there I
- 11:57had a strange feeling, which you you.
- 11:58Speaker 3: Really well, that's very flattering.
- 12:01Speaker 4: Doctor.
- 12:02Speaker 5: Oh, hello, what the sound as if there's some trouble
- 12:06at the stage door? He excuse me?
- 12:08Speaker 3: Come on, what and let's follow him?
- 12:09Speaker 4: Right? Hello, it's a clawn. He seems upset about something.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Yes, what happens, Claud? Oh they were homes and I
- 12:20just seen miss Hanshoe off in her cap when her.
- 12:21Speaker 4: Foreign looking fellow came out of the door. William got
- 12:24into another cab.
- 12:25Speaker 3: I heard him tell the driver to follow her right.
- 12:27I tried to stop him, but he got away.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Must be the same man that we saw in our
- 12:31box during the player.
- 12:31Speaker 5: As a Claud, and we have our address. I think
- 12:33we'll dry that once and see that she's arrived safely.
- 12:36We'll join you later at the Diogenies Club.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Well, homes here we go off on another adventure.
- 12:53Speaker 5: Yes, and one they may give us an opportunity of
- 12:54crossing sword with Mariati once more.
- 12:56Speaker 4: Oh, Mariac is dead. He was killed when you and
- 12:59he fell over. The play is in ninety one.
- 13:01Speaker 3: He was supposed to have been killed just as I was,
- 13:03but his body was never found.
- 13:05Speaker 5: It's impossible, or rather possible, that he returned to four
- 13:08into the ears of Colonel Morana's story is unlikely and
- 13:11as true that the one I related to you on.
- 13:14Speaker 3: That April evening in eighteen ninety four.
- 13:16Speaker 5: One can never be sure of death, old Chap until
- 13:19one has touched the cold skin of a corpse.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Doctor Watson's story will continue in just a few seconds,
- 13:33hardly time for me to tell you about a really
- 13:35great petree wine, Petrie California muscatel. Did you ever walk
- 13:40through a vineyard early in the morning and pick a big,
- 13:43juicy muscat grape right off the vine. If you've ever
- 13:47done that, then you know what to expect when you
- 13:49taste petree muscatel. Petrie muscatel is the color of golden sunshine,
- 13:54with a flavor to match. Serve Petrie muscatel after dinner
- 13:58some evening, or serve it any times friends drop in.
- 14:01It's a wonderful way to express your hospitality with a
- 14:04wonderful wine, a petrie wine. And now back to tonight's
- 14:20new Sherlock Holmes adventure, the famous pair have become involved
- 14:23in a strange mystery concerning a stolen ruby, a frightened girl,
- 14:27and an Egyptian who appears to be shadowing her. As
- 14:30we rejoin our story, Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson are
- 14:32standing in a darkened alleyway adjoining the girl's home homes.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Look, look, look an Egyptian fellow. He's pacing up and
- 14:38down in front of our house.
- 14:40Speaker 5: Yes, therefore we may assume she's safely inside. Uh huh,
- 14:43seems to be giving up. He's coming this way, batting
- 14:46yourself against the.
- 14:47Speaker 3: Wall, believing, sir, why are you please?
- 14:54Speaker 5: We are friends of missus Henshaw, and we're very curious
- 14:56to know why you've been following her.
- 14:58Speaker 7: I'm sorry that I kind of answer your ques.
- 15:00Speaker 4: Now, look here, my man, you're talking to Sherlock Holmes.
- 15:04Speaker 7: You are mister Sherlock Holmes. I am greatly honored to
- 15:07meet you, sir. Or my life I have known of you,
- 15:10or my life I have admired you.
- 15:11Speaker 5: Then in that case, perhaps you'll answer my questions why
- 15:14have you been following miss Henshaw?
- 15:16Speaker 3: Because it is my duty. What do you mean your duty.
- 15:19Speaker 7: Perhaps I should have said my destiny, mister Holmes. For
- 15:22two generations now, the family of a rabbi of which
- 15:25I am a humbled member, I have dedicated their lives
- 15:28to finding the stolen treasure of Ashut.
- 15:30Speaker 4: Well, and I saw they're got to do with Miss Henshaw.
- 15:33Speaker 7: The treasure of Ashut is a giant ruby. It was
- 15:36stolen many years ago from the family of Muhammad Ali.
- 15:39A few months ago, missus Henshaw received a mysterious ruby.
- 15:43I have found out many things, mister Holmes. I have
- 15:46many sources of information.
- 15:47Speaker 3: And I must regard you in the right of a
- 15:49rival detective.
- 15:50Speaker 7: In this case, I heartily called myself a detective, mister Holmes.
- 15:54My life is dedicated to only one problem. Miss Henshaw
- 15:57now says the jewel was stolen from her.
- 16:00Speaker 3: I do not believe it. That is why I watch her.
- 16:03Speaker 7: If I am wrong this time, and I do not
- 16:05think I am wrong, then my quest must go on
- 16:09always it would go on.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Permit me to wish you the best of luck, sir.
- 16:12Thank you, mister Holmes. Good night, gentlemen, we shall meet again.
- 16:17Speaker 4: Oh why did you let him go? Why not?
- 16:20Speaker 5: He's frightening Miss Hanshaw, but not molesting her old chaplain.
- 16:23In fact, it might be a good thing if someone
- 16:24is keeping an eye on her. And meanwhile, Watson, let's
- 16:27say if we can find a cab and get back
- 16:29to the Diogenous Club.
- 16:30Speaker 3: I don't want to keep squat waiting.
- 16:39Speaker 4: I thought I caught hawk and arrived.
- 16:41Speaker 7: Yet, yes, mister Holmes here and another gentleman came in
- 16:43about five minutes ago.
- 16:45Speaker 3: They went up to the library. The other gentleman is
- 16:47just lying.
- 16:47Speaker 5: Say thank you this way, Watson. I'm sorry, sir, touch
- 16:56we kept you waiting. We took a little longer.
- 16:58Speaker 4: But God, great Heavens, what's the matter with him? Pose?
- 17:04Speaker 3: I I found the answer too late. It's it's letter.
- 17:11Don't trying to stand up your your ill. What are
- 17:13you trying to tell me? The Ruby, the ruby, Mariotti,
- 17:20the answer, the answers m hm, the book, mm hmm,
- 17:28the books, the card halms.
- 17:34Speaker 4: He's been stabbed. He's dead.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Just as he was trying to give me a message, he.
- 17:39Speaker 4: Was muttering something about the ruby and Mariotti, and twice
- 17:42he said it's in the book.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Yes, there's a book still in his hand.
- 17:47Speaker 4: It's a copy of the Tales of Edgar Allan Pearl.
- 17:51Speaker 5: He stuns marking a page. It's the story of the
- 17:54Pearloined Letter. Thank ju, sup Claude, you delivered your message.
- 17:57Speaker 3: Come on, Watson, we.
- 17:58Speaker 5: Want to catch a murder and a if we must
- 18:00go back to the Savoy Theater as quickly as we can.
- 18:13Speaker 4: Why do you suppose the Claude was murdered because.
- 18:15Speaker 5: It was too curious in investigating the problem of the
- 18:18stolen ruby and had found out something something he promised
- 18:22to tell me at supper, I remember, until he was
- 18:24killed by a man who came with him to the
- 18:25club tonight. Fortunately he gave me a clue by indicating
- 18:30post story of the purloined letter.
- 18:32Speaker 4: And I still don't see that Howard helps you when
- 18:34it leads us to the ruby.
- 18:36Speaker 5: The premise of post tory is that the most obvious
- 18:38hiding place is the safest. Now what a physical object
- 18:42was most prominent on the stage in tonight's.
- 18:44Speaker 4: Play by Jove A ruby?
- 18:47Speaker 3: Exactly?
- 18:48Speaker 5: How better can you hide a stolen ruby than by
- 18:50exhibiting it night after night as a stolen ruby before
- 18:53the eyes of thousands.
- 18:55Speaker 4: Well, you mean you expect to find it in the
- 18:57property room backscade.
- 18:58Speaker 5: Exactly that and a murderer wait for us, caddy. Come on, Watson, y,
- 19:05have you had an auto old chap, Yes, yes I do.
- 19:06I'll keep it handy. A visit may not be unexpected.
- 19:11Speaker 3: And a lock. That's good.
- 19:12Speaker 4: Come on, look home. Look the door keeper. He's thumped
- 19:17over his desk.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Hmmm, he's been giving chlodoform. Will take the liberty of
- 19:22borrowing his lantern.
- 19:27Speaker 2: H' The eerie atmosphere about a dark and empty theater is.
- 19:33Speaker 5: Now where with the stage properties we kept? I wander
- 19:37hold the lantern atal high with your fellow.
- 19:39Speaker 3: That's it. Uh. Look over there a large cabinet.
- 19:45Speaker 4: It's marked popular department.
- 19:48Speaker 5: And it's unlocked. Oh this is frighteningly easy. Let's look
- 19:55out for a trap. Now let's see look.
- 19:58Speaker 4: Look that's a ruby lying on that fress.
- 20:02Speaker 5: Holt up on the lantern. Watson, exactly, it's as I thought.
- 20:07This is no paste stage property. It's a genuine ruby.
- 20:11The light of this lantern, it's very hard time Watson
- 20:14quickly he nearly gunners smash the lantern. Yes, he's got
- 20:17an air rifle, a powerful one to confound it. There's
- 20:20no flash to indicate where he's firing from. Of course,
- 20:22he's baited his trap so neatly that he knows exactly
- 20:25where we are to take a shot at him.
- 20:27Speaker 4: I can't see anything, but at least that'll let him
- 20:29know we're armed.
- 20:31Speaker 3: Now move your position quickly.
- 20:32Speaker 4: Watch them just miss me, Holmes, this is hopeless shooting
- 20:35in the dark.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Yes, I've got to switch the stage lights on. Keep
- 20:40him occupied. The fellow will well. I try to find
- 20:43the light switches.
- 20:45Speaker 4: I've got him, but he can still shoot. Confound it.
- 20:49Speaker 5: Yes, when I found the light switch, keep your eye skin, Watson, I'm.
- 20:52Speaker 4: Turning it out.
- 20:54Speaker 5: There is Homes up in the darkning away Upton, Watson.
- 20:58You can jump over the rights into the box.
- 21:05Speaker 3: Ah.
- 21:05Speaker 5: I played the burdose phone, Watson, and I should have
- 21:08remembered the theater exit doors always opened from the inside.
- 21:11Speaker 2: No, he didn't get away. Homes forgot the father. It's
- 21:14that Egyptian fellow.
- 21:15Speaker 3: I hope you haven't wounded him too badly.
- 21:16Speaker 4: I I don't care if I have. He was trying
- 21:18to kill us.
- 21:20Speaker 2: It's when he should the wound. He's fainted, infernal scoundrel.
- 21:25Speaker 5: Now he's a very gallant man. Undoubtedly he was trying
- 21:27to save us as you shot him.
- 21:28Speaker 4: Just now, what on earth are you talking about? Obviously
- 21:32he's Mariati.
- 21:32Speaker 3: No wats Mariatti just escaped through the door you heard
- 21:35clang a few moments ago. And what's this man doing
- 21:37here as a fellow detective?
- 21:39Speaker 5: Undoubtedly he followed us, perhaps he preceded us when Mariatti
- 21:42started shooting. This man tried to capture him and got
- 21:44wounded by you forriss pains.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Then who is Mariati? He must be someone connected with
- 21:48his Further.
- 21:49Speaker 3: It's obvious Mariatti is Mariatti.
- 21:52Speaker 4: But you mean Frank Pharow is a fellow that played
- 21:55the part on the stage.
- 21:57Speaker 3: Again, remember Poe's story of a pearloined letter.
- 22:00Speaker 4: Why I didn't didn't you recognize him?
- 22:02Speaker 5: Remember I haven't seen him for twenty years, and you
- 22:04haven't forgotten his genius for disguise, have you?
- 22:07Speaker 4: What incredible, Aljuster?
- 22:09Speaker 5: How better could Mariatti conceal himself than by announcing nightly
- 22:13to the theater going public that he was Professor Mariatta and.
- 22:17Speaker 4: He kills the claude.
- 22:18Speaker 3: Because he did, the claude.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Must have persuaded Mariatti to go to the club with him.
- 22:23Probably he hoped to expose him in front of me,
- 22:25but Mariatte found out that the Claude knew too much.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Yes, so he stabbed in, rushed back here debate his
- 22:33trap for us.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, But how did he know that
- 22:37we'd we'd walk into it?
- 22:40Speaker 3: Oh? He knew that if the cloud had guessed his secret,
- 22:42and I certainly would, And so he was waiting for us.
- 22:44Speaker 4: Ah, Hello, he's coming through. How are you feeling, ma'mam?
- 22:51Speaker 3: The rupee, the RuBee? Did you find the rupee? Yes,
- 22:58here is sir?
- 22:59Speaker 4: Tell me?
- 23:00Speaker 3: Is it the ruby of Uhammad Ali? No?
- 23:04Speaker 8: No, it is a fine stone, but it is not
- 23:08the one for which I have searched all my life,
- 23:12and so my endless quest must go on.
- 23:21Speaker 4: He's fainted again.
- 23:23Speaker 3: Poor devil, find mess I made it this case once more.
- 23:26Speaker 4: I don't know you've recovered the rumor.
- 23:28Speaker 3: Yes, look at it, old fellow, before I turn it
- 23:30over to Miss Henshaw.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Look at it.
- 23:31Speaker 3: Well, Probably it's every facet stands for a bloody deed.
- 23:37Speaker 4: It's a beautiful stone.
- 23:39Speaker 3: And yet this lovely baubles const s to Claudie's life.
- 23:42Speaker 4: And that devil Mariotti still goes through.
- 23:45Speaker 5: One day, Watson, and may the day come soon I
- 23:49shall meet Mariotti again. And when that happens, and I
- 23:53finally bring him to justice, then and only then can
- 23:57you write Finney to the character of Shellack Combs