Latest / Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes Radio A Scandal in Bohemia Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Con
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now I know doctor Watson's waiting for us, so let's
- 0:04Speaker 1: go in and join him. Come in, Come in, good inning,
- 0:09Speaker 1: doctor Watson.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Good evening, mister Bartow. You're quite muffled up tonight. I
- 0:13Speaker 2: see overcoats, calf and gloves. Slip them off and come
- 0:17Speaker 2: and join.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Me by the far Thanks doctor, Quite a nippany are tonight?
- 0:21Speaker 3: Yes, that is indeed well.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Doctor, you told us last week that tonight's story centered
- 0:25Speaker 1: around the activities of.
- 0:27Speaker 3: A brilliant and beautiful woman.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Yes, my boy, her name is Irene Edler, but I
- 0:32Speaker 2: never knew Holmes to refer to her by any other
- 0:34Speaker 2: name than the woman.
- 0:36Speaker 4: Who she sounds mighty and trading. How did you happen
- 0:39Speaker 4: to meet up with her?
- 0:39Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you the story from the beginning. One night.
- 0:43Speaker 2: It was on the twentieth of March eighteen hundred and
- 0:45Speaker 2: eighty eight, to be exact. I was returning home from
- 0:48Speaker 2: a visit to patients when my steps led me through
- 0:50Speaker 2: Baker Street.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Since my marriage, I haven't seen much of.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes, and you couldn't resist stopping by two twenty
- 0:57Speaker 1: one b I'm sure, doc, of.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Course I couldn't. As I stood outside the well remembered door.
- 1:02Speaker 3: I looked up at the.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Lighted windows and saw the tall, spare figure of my
- 1:07Speaker 2: old friend pass twice in dark silhouette against the blind.
- 1:11Speaker 2: He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head
- 1:15Speaker 2: sunk on his chest and his hands clasped behind him.
- 1:19Speaker 2: To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his
- 1:22Speaker 2: attitude and manner tells our own story, he was hot
- 1:25Speaker 2: on the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell,
- 1:29Speaker 2: and a few moments later, hind myself standing.
- 1:33Speaker 4: PoID Mary ex suits you Watson, looking splendid.
- 1:38Speaker 5: Chase yes, some time, fully, very wong and in practice again.
- 1:40Speaker 5: I see you didn't tell me that you've gone back
- 1:43Speaker 5: into Hannes.
- 1:44Speaker 4: How do you know?
- 1:45Speaker 5: I imagine, my dear Chap, if a gentleman walks into
- 1:47Speaker 5: my rooms and smelling a biodaform with a black mark
- 1:51Speaker 5: of nitrate of silvon his right forefinger and a bulge
- 1:54Speaker 5: on the left side of his hats to show where
- 1:57Speaker 5: he has secreted his steposcope, Hush, Bedelinde. I I didn't
- 2:00Speaker 5: pronounce him to be an active member the medical professional.
- 2:03Speaker 2: The same as their homes. By the way, I'm not interrupting.
- 2:07Speaker 4: You am I llow, but it's a most welcome interruption.
- 2:10Speaker 3: You're working on a new k.
- 2:12Speaker 4: It looks like it.
- 2:13Speaker 5: This letter arrived by the last person today, is undated
- 2:15Speaker 5: and has neither signature nor address.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Read it.
- 2:20Speaker 2: They will call upon you tonight to quarter to eight o'clock,
- 2:23Speaker 2: a gentlemen, who deserves to consult you upon a matter
- 2:27Speaker 2: of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one
- 2:31Speaker 2: of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you
- 2:34Speaker 2: are one who may safely be trusted. This account of
- 2:38Speaker 2: you we have from all quarters received. Be in your
- 2:43Speaker 2: chamber then at that hour, and do not take it
- 2:46Speaker 2: amiss if your visitor wears a mask.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Quicks God. All sounds very mysterious. What do you imagine
- 2:53Speaker 3: it means?
- 2:54Speaker 4: Look carefully at the note, Watson, what you deduce from it?
- 2:58Speaker 2: Let's see all the man who wrote, if it was
- 3:00Speaker 2: presumably well to do, such a paper couldn't be bought
- 3:02Speaker 2: for under half a crowd of packet.
- 3:04Speaker 3: And it's peculiarly strong and stiff.
- 3:07Speaker 5: Peculiar that's the very word. It's not an English paper
- 3:11Speaker 5: at all.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Hold it up to the light.
- 3:13Speaker 2: You notice anything, Yes, there is a large eve with
- 3:17Speaker 2: a small G and a large G with a small
- 3:21Speaker 2: T woven into the texture.
- 3:23Speaker 3: Of the paper.
- 3:24Speaker 4: What does that suggest you the name of.
- 3:26Speaker 2: The maker, no doubt, or perhaps there is monogram.
- 3:29Speaker 4: Now that's all, my dear fellow.
- 3:30Speaker 5: The G with a small T stands for gazelle shaft,
- 3:34Speaker 5: which is the German for company, and the EG that
- 3:38Speaker 5: stands for Egrea, the German speaking country in Bohemia, not
- 3:41Speaker 5: far from Carlsbad.
- 3:42Speaker 3: So the paper was made in Bohemia.
- 3:44Speaker 4: Undoubtedly the man who wrote the note is a German.
- 3:47Speaker 3: How do you know that?
- 3:48Speaker 4: Observe the curious construction of the sentence.
- 3:51Speaker 5: This account of you we have from all quarters received.
- 3:55Speaker 5: A Frenchman or a Russian could not have written that.
- 3:58Speaker 5: It's the German who is so curtious to his verbs.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Oh there's your current. Now I'd better go home.
- 4:04Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, unless you have to o good
- 4:07Speaker 4: stay for ah then, my dear Chap.
- 4:08Speaker 5: Stay by all means I'm lost without my bus will
- 4:11Speaker 5: and this promise is to be interesting. I told missus
- 4:14Speaker 5: Hudson to let the mask visitor come upstairs unannounced.
- 4:19Speaker 4: Come in good evening, sir, you you received my note?
- 4:28Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, come in watch rooms her down. This is
- 4:31Speaker 5: my friend and colleague, Dr Watson. You may say anything
- 4:34Speaker 5: for poor him that you can say to me. Whom
- 4:37Speaker 5: have I the honor to address? Can he address me?
- 4:40Speaker 5: As a content cram? You must excuse this mask that
- 4:44Speaker 5: I hear the august person who employs me, which she
- 4:47Speaker 5: is his agent, to be unknown to you. And I
- 4:50Speaker 5: may confess at once that the title by which I
- 4:52Speaker 5: have just called myself is not exactly my own.
- 4:54Speaker 4: I was well aware of that fact, sir, you see,
- 4:57Speaker 4: mister Holmes.
- 4:57Speaker 5: Sir, as a matter I'm about to discuss, implicates the
- 5:02Speaker 5: great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of bohem.
- 5:05Speaker 4: That had not escaped me either, sir.
- 5:07Speaker 5: In fact, if you will stake your case, I should
- 5:09Speaker 5: be better able to advise you. Your majesty, How did you?
- 5:16Speaker 4: Yes?
- 5:17Speaker 5: Yes, I am the king. Why should I attempt to
- 5:20Speaker 5: conceal it?
- 5:21Speaker 4: Why? Indeed, I shall remove the.
- 5:24Speaker 5: Mask there, mister Holmes, I have traveled incognito from Prague
- 5:32Speaker 5: for the express purpose of consulting you, and pray consult briefly.
- 5:35Speaker 4: The facts are these.
- 5:37Speaker 5: Some five years ago, during a visitor Warsaw, I meet
- 5:41Speaker 5: the acquaintance of the well known adventurests.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Irene Adler, Irene Adler.
- 5:46Speaker 3: We know of her, your man, sir, and.
- 5:48Speaker 5: Look her up an index for me, Willi Watson, it's
- 5:50Speaker 5: right beside you on the desk there. I imagined that
- 5:53Speaker 5: the name would not be unfamiliar to you.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Here we are, here, we are hey Abraham's acton Green
- 5:59Speaker 3: Hatchet murders Edler.
- 6:01Speaker 5: Eddler splendid him in the Pharaoh chap Thank YopE. Annie
- 6:07Speaker 5: Ndler born in New Jersey in the United States of
- 6:11Speaker 5: America in eighteen fifty eight, contralto MM Primadanna Imperial Opera
- 6:17Speaker 5: of warsaw Oh retired from our operatic stage living in London.
- 6:23Speaker 4: Quite so. And here's a recent notation. H huh.
- 6:27Speaker 5: Your majesty, as I understand, became entangled with this young person,
- 6:31Speaker 5: wrote her some compromising letters and is now desirous of getting.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Those letters back. Precisely so. But how was there a
- 6:37Speaker 4: secret merriage? None? No legal papers or certificates.
- 6:42Speaker 3: No.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Then I failed to follow your majesty.
- 6:44Speaker 5: If this young ladyship produced her letters for blackmailing purposes,
- 6:48Speaker 5: how she'd approved their authenticity. Here's the handwriting that could
- 6:52Speaker 5: be a forgery of men, but it was private modepaper,
- 6:54Speaker 5: stolen my own seal, imitated my photograph.
- 6:58Speaker 4: What a boat in the photograph? Oh dmb, yes, that's
- 7:03Speaker 4: very bad. Your majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion.
- 7:07Speaker 3: Did you inscribe this photograph, your mastery.
- 7:11Speaker 5: Yes, doctor Watson, I am afraid I did, mister Holmes.
- 7:15Speaker 4: It must be recovered.
- 7:16Speaker 5: Perhaps if you were to pay enough, the photograph might
- 7:18Speaker 5: be bought. She refuses to serve stolen that five attempts
- 7:22Speaker 5: have been made, twice burglars in my pal and sacked
- 7:26Speaker 5: our house once.
- 7:27Speaker 4: We diverted her luggage when she traveled twice. She has
- 7:30Speaker 4: been very late. There has been no result. That's quite
- 7:33Speaker 4: a pretty little problem. It is a deadly serious one
- 7:36Speaker 4: to me, your.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Majesty, What does miss Adlin tend to do with the
- 7:39Speaker 2: photograph to ruin me?
- 7:40Speaker 4: Nahauser help.
- 7:43Speaker 5: I am about to be married to the second daughter
- 7:45Speaker 5: of the King of Scandinavia. She is the soul of delicacy.
- 7:49Speaker 5: A shadow of a doubt as to my conduct would
- 7:53Speaker 5: bring the matter to an end, And I really Adler
- 7:56Speaker 5: threatens to send the photography of fiancespers Yes, and she
- 7:59Speaker 5: will do it rather than let me marry another woman.
- 8:02Speaker 5: There are no lengths to which she would not go none.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Are you sure she hasn't already sent it to your magic?
- 8:08Speaker 5: I am sure? And why she said she would send it?
- 8:11Speaker 5: And the day my betrothal is publicly announced That day
- 8:17Speaker 5: will be next Monday, splendid. Then we still have won
- 8:19Speaker 5: three days. Your majesty will of course stay in London
- 8:22Speaker 5: for the present. Certainly you would find me at the
- 8:25Speaker 5: Langham Hotel registered as count from Crown.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Are just two questions before you leave? Is the photograph
- 8:31Speaker 4: large or small? Quite large? And it was in a
- 8:35Speaker 4: heavy frame? I see? And what is ireny address?
- 8:39Speaker 5: London address News Greeny Lodge, seventeen Avenue, Saint John's. Would
- 8:44Speaker 5: thank you your majesty, good night, and I trust that
- 8:46Speaker 5: we shall soon have some good news for you.
- 8:47Speaker 4: I am placing all my hopes in you, mister Holmes.
- 8:50Speaker 4: Good night, good night, doctor Morrow.
- 8:52Speaker 3: Good night to your mergin snading problem homes.
- 8:58Speaker 4: I wish I could help you, you can, my dear Chap,
- 9:01Speaker 4: I should be gare of your company. So our first move, Holmes,
- 9:03Speaker 4: a good night's rest.
- 9:05Speaker 5: We'll meet here at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and then, then,
- 9:07Speaker 5: my dear Fellawn, we will see what we can find
- 9:09Speaker 5: out about miss irene Idler, later the Warsaw Imperial Opera
- 9:13Speaker 5: Company and at present residing at Bryanny Lodge, Serpentine Avenue,
- 9:16Speaker 5: Saint John's Wood.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Well Holmes are Cashier.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Examination of Brownie Lodge didn't.
- 9:33Speaker 3: Prove very illuminating.
- 9:35Speaker 4: No visual residents.
- 9:36Speaker 5: That represents the essence of dignified suburbia, but tells us
- 9:40Speaker 5: very little about the owner. I think a visit to
- 9:43Speaker 5: the local public house might prove more instructive. Come on,
- 9:46Speaker 5: old Chap, I see the door of the coach and
- 9:49Speaker 5: horses inviting us from across the road.
- 9:53Speaker 2: Well, our disguises shouldn't cause any I suggested them in.
- 9:58Speaker 5: The character of a couple tables, I felt that we
- 10:02Speaker 5: might inspire confidence.
- 10:04Speaker 4: This is a falsey neighborhood.
- 10:06Speaker 5: There's a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among that fraternity.
- 10:10Speaker 4: There we are. They'll let me do most of the talking.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Yes, well, I'm sure your accent will be more convincing
- 10:15Speaker 2: than Mother and Joy.
- 10:25Speaker 5: Well, worry me off of all them off, please, I
- 10:29Speaker 5: bet you, Charlie all at the time.
- 10:32Speaker 6: You were off of a hold a mile. Here we
- 10:45Speaker 6: are made here, help me in talent, have a drink.
- 10:48Speaker 6: Mothers coming out pot old body boy, you all of.
- 10:51Speaker 4: A ginnis you bloke shirt you around.
- 10:55Speaker 6: Here a yesh.
- 10:56Speaker 4: We had just come out from clapping TlAP. He mad,
- 11:00Speaker 4: he's looking at you.
- 11:04Speaker 3: You are union for.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Job as that's right.
- 11:07Speaker 5: Well we were telling that miss out across at Bryany
- 11:10Speaker 5: Lodge and needed a new coachman and groom.
- 11:12Speaker 4: Quirk's the first I've heard of it, but it might
- 11:15Speaker 4: be true.
- 11:16Speaker 6: Everybody over there.
- 11:17Speaker 4: Was no not yet. We thought we find out something
- 11:20Speaker 4: about the old God first, she ain't no old girl.
- 11:24Speaker 6: Maybe she's the pretty as young thing you ever saw
- 11:27Speaker 6: under a bonnet. And that's effect. I know her governor, Yeah,
- 11:31Speaker 6: of course I know. He used to drive a carriage.
- 11:34Speaker 6: I did before I come to work here.
- 11:37Speaker 5: What's she like?
- 11:38Speaker 4: We're nice little ladies. You'll find workyard, No, no, no, And.
- 11:43Speaker 6: She lives there quiet luck, goes out singing at concerts
- 11:47Speaker 6: once in a while, rest of the time it's money
- 11:50Speaker 6: for jam. She goes up for driving the park every
- 11:53Speaker 6: day at five and comes back to dinner at six thirty.
- 11:57Speaker 6: Rest to the times, I sha'n't manage to say it,
- 12:01Speaker 6: but she's got a bloke watch if that comes to
- 12:04Speaker 6: see her all the time.
- 12:06Speaker 4: He's a barrasser. Nice gentlemen.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Mister Jeffrey Norton is his name, and looking Philip wouldn't
- 12:12Speaker 5: be surprised to see him get nice chance.
- 12:14Speaker 4: I can ask pussy job to me.
- 12:15Speaker 5: Come on, Charlie, let's get over to the house and
- 12:17Speaker 5: see what's what much obliged to you?
- 12:19Speaker 4: Jump with good luck made thanks for.
- 12:28Speaker 3: What's what's our next move home?
- 12:30Speaker 5: Let's drove back to Brownie Lodge away and I'm decided
- 12:33Speaker 5: whether to continue my investigations there or to try and
- 12:37Speaker 5: find out something about mister Jeffrey North from the barristern.
- 12:41Speaker 5: If he is just her lawyer and nothing else, it's
- 12:43Speaker 5: more than likely that she's interested to put it out
- 12:45Speaker 5: to his safekeeping, said cab waiting outside. Missus, hurry, Watson,
- 12:49Speaker 5: Maybe mister Norton's are here.
- 12:52Speaker 4: We are, citate, yes, and here comes a man harding
- 12:56Speaker 4: down the pathway quickly. I just posed to listen. We're
- 13:01Speaker 4: too nigh.
- 13:02Speaker 7: Mister Norton tried right to devil, first to Gross and
- 13:05Speaker 7: Hankees in Regent Street, and then to the Church of
- 13:07Speaker 7: Saint Monica in the edge Road. Half a sovereign if
- 13:10Speaker 7: you do it in twenty minutes, write charmster Norton off me.
- 13:17Speaker 4: Crime signal to cab Watson, win us follow him.
- 13:20Speaker 3: Here comes one. No, no, no, doesn't it it's it's
- 13:22Speaker 3: a private carriage.
- 13:23Speaker 4: She said, does no doubt. But here she comes down
- 13:25Speaker 4: the pathway.
- 13:26Speaker 3: I can buy the post.
- 13:27Speaker 4: Watson, where come is.
- 13:33Speaker 2: That leads to Saint Monica, John and half a seven
- 13:36Speaker 2: if you reach it in twenty minutes.
- 13:41Speaker 4: Games quick, let's get a cabin. Follow them.
- 13:44Speaker 2: Here comes handsome Kenny, Hi, Hi, Kelly.
- 13:48Speaker 4: Have you brall's got enough money to take a care
- 13:50Speaker 4: half sovereign for you, my man?
- 13:52Speaker 3: Right?
- 13:52Speaker 4: Yah?
- 13:52Speaker 5: Where too, governor the Church of Saint Monica in the
- 13:54Speaker 5: Edgebury Road, and another half sovereign for you.
- 13:57Speaker 4: You can get us there in twenty minutes.
- 14:14Speaker 1: We'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
- 14:16Speaker 1: a second. But let me tell you something. If you're
- 14:19Speaker 1: going to have chicken for dinner tomorrow night or any night,
- 14:23Speaker 1: don't forget to serve that chicken with Petrie California so turned.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Believe me, Petree so turned is just about the last
- 14:30Speaker 1: word in white wines.
- 14:32Speaker 4: It's beautifully golden in color.
- 14:34Speaker 1: It's delicate and intriguing in flavor, and it's just well,
- 14:38Speaker 1: you taste it and see for yourself. If you want
- 14:41Speaker 1: a delicious white wine, you certainly wantch Petree.
- 14:44Speaker 3: So turned.
- 14:46Speaker 4: Doctor again.
- 14:47Speaker 1: You broke off your story at the most exciting point.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Did you and Sherlock Holmes reach that church inside the
- 14:52Speaker 1: twenty minutes?
- 14:53Speaker 4: Yes?
- 14:53Speaker 2: What about to tell her? We did, but the other
- 14:55Speaker 2: carriages were there before us. Holmes went into the church
- 14:58Speaker 2: after telling me to guard the outside. I must have
- 15:00Speaker 2: waited for ten minutes or more before mister Jeffery Norton
- 15:03Speaker 2: and miss Adler came out, spoke a few words to
- 15:06Speaker 2: each other, and then left then in the in their
- 15:09Speaker 2: separate conveyances. A moment later, Holmes, still dressed as a
- 15:13Speaker 2: stable hand, came striding out of the church and down
- 15:15Speaker 2: the steps towards me. He was, obviously say excited, what's
- 15:23Speaker 2: happy left here?
- 15:23Speaker 3: Since in separate cabs.
- 15:25Speaker 2: I overheard him say that he was going back to
- 15:27Speaker 2: his office, and she said, I shall drive out in
- 15:30Speaker 2: the park at five o'clock as.
- 15:31Speaker 4: Usual, splendid, and come on you can return to Big Street.
- 15:36Speaker 3: What happened inside the church homes?
- 15:38Speaker 5: They were married married, of course, the ceremony would have
- 15:41Speaker 5: been illegal if performed afternoon. That accounted for their wild
- 15:45Speaker 5: dash to the church. Jump into the cable clone, We're
- 15:47Speaker 5: too long over No two twenty one be bigger street.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Oh so so they got married? Then?
- 15:53Speaker 6: Yes?
- 15:53Speaker 4: And you may amuse you to know that I acted
- 15:55Speaker 4: as witness of the ceremony of did But how.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Did that happen?
- 15:59Speaker 4: They're own witness? It failed to a pier and I
- 16:01Speaker 4: was dragged into the breach.
- 16:02Speaker 5: He right gave me this sovereign as a memento. Think
- 16:06Speaker 5: I'll wear it on my watch chain in memory of
- 16:08Speaker 5: the case.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Not an amazing situation. Things begin to look better for
- 16:11Speaker 2: the King, doesn't there Now that she's missus Norton, the
- 16:14Speaker 2: chances are that she won't want to expose his majesty
- 16:17Speaker 2: after all, I hope.
- 16:18Speaker 4: So what's my hope? So though we can't have thought
- 16:20Speaker 4: to take any chances, I think the time is ripe
- 16:22Speaker 4: for us to come to closer grips with the lady.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Well Homes. Now that we've eaten. Perhaps you'll kill me your.
- 16:37Speaker 5: Plans preasure, my dear fellow man. While I'm so doing,
- 16:39Speaker 5: I'll proceed with the applying the makeup my new disguise.
- 16:42Speaker 5: Now that this guy is, I wants you to be
- 16:44Speaker 5: the character and appearance of an amiable, simple minded, nonconformist clergyman.
- 16:48Speaker 5: Would be the mist suited to my plan for entering
- 16:50Speaker 5: Miss Adler's house.
- 16:50Speaker 3: You're going to try and enter them.
- 16:52Speaker 4: I must make it, fellow.
- 16:53Speaker 5: I'm sure the photograph is there, Miss Handler, or rather
- 16:55Speaker 5: missus Norton, who will returned from her drive in the
- 16:58Speaker 5: park at six thirty. We must be a Brian a
- 17:00Speaker 5: lodge tomta and what?
- 17:01Speaker 3: Then?
- 17:01Speaker 4: You must leave that to me.
- 17:03Speaker 5: I've already made my arrangements. There is only one point
- 17:05Speaker 5: on which I must insist. You must not interfere.
- 17:07Speaker 3: Come.
- 17:08Speaker 4: What may you understand?
- 17:09Speaker 5: I'm to remain neutral. Yes, there will be some small unpleasantness.
- 17:12Speaker 5: Don't join in. It will end in my being conveyed
- 17:14Speaker 5: into the house. As soon as I'm able to, I
- 17:16Speaker 5: shall open one of the windows. You are to watch
- 17:18Speaker 5: from the outside. When I raise my hand, you will
- 17:20Speaker 5: throw an object that I shall give you through the window,
- 17:22Speaker 5: and at the same time cry fire be follow me.
- 17:25Speaker 3: What am I to throw?
- 17:26Speaker 4: It's nothing very formidable here it.
- 17:28Speaker 3: Is huh so you a great picture of God?
- 17:30Speaker 4: What is ordinary?
- 17:31Speaker 5: Plumbers smoke rocket that it with a cap at either
- 17:34Speaker 5: end to make itself lighting. Your task is confined to
- 17:36Speaker 5: throwing it through the window. When you raise the cry
- 17:39Speaker 5: of five will be taken up by quite a number
- 17:41Speaker 5: of people. You may then walk to the end of
- 17:42Speaker 5: the street and I'll rejoin you in ten minutes. I
- 17:45Speaker 5: hope I've made myself clear, perfect good and now ollow.
- 17:49Speaker 5: As soon as I've drawne my clericle attar, let's be
- 17:51Speaker 5: on our way. There's no time to be lost.
- 18:04Speaker 2: There's six thirty homes. You've been pacing up and down
- 18:07Speaker 2: in front of her house for half an hour.
- 18:09Speaker 3: Now. I hope she does come back.
- 18:11Speaker 4: I'm sure she will.
- 18:12Speaker 3: There seem to be a lot of loafers hanging around
- 18:14Speaker 3: a gate.
- 18:15Speaker 4: Or part of my conspiracy old jep. You'll see them
- 18:17Speaker 4: play their parts in a few minutes.
- 18:19Speaker 3: You still think the photograph is inside.
- 18:21Speaker 5: The house, Yes, it's sent first un likely that she
- 18:23Speaker 5: carries it about with her. Remember the king told us
- 18:25Speaker 5: there was a large frame picture, and also remember that
- 18:28Speaker 5: she planned to use it within a few days. It
- 18:31Speaker 5: must be where she can lay her hands on it.
- 18:32Speaker 5: It must be inside her house.
- 18:34Speaker 3: But her house has been burglar or pice.
- 18:36Speaker 4: I didn't know how to look.
- 18:38Speaker 3: How will you look?
- 18:39Speaker 5: I won't I'll get her to show me. She'll refuse,
- 18:41Speaker 5: won't be able to sh There comes the carriage. Now,
- 18:45Speaker 5: remember Watson, carry out my orders to the letter.
- 18:48Speaker 3: You can trust me.
- 18:50Speaker 4: Good luck. Blimey, here comes the duchess. Let's put out
- 18:55Speaker 4: of carpet. She might get us this way.
- 18:57Speaker 3: Put a shock.
- 18:58Speaker 4: Hey, hell, she no better than she ought that night.
- 19:05Speaker 4: We'll all come in and have a cover of.
- 19:10Speaker 3: Away. Please and get the lady through just cause.
- 19:13Speaker 4: Your color said the roadway around. You can't fail out, Fanny.
- 19:18Speaker 4: Take your nose out of it. Please, please, don't fight
- 19:23Speaker 4: about it. I'll tell you what I can stop more
- 19:26Speaker 4: listing the lady? Please? Ye, then how would you like
- 19:29Speaker 4: a fIF on the nose?
- 19:33Speaker 5: Oh?
- 19:33Speaker 4: He hit the poor man and then he ran away
- 19:35Speaker 4: the cows.
- 19:36Speaker 2: It is the purgimint.
- 19:37Speaker 3: Badly he is it, mamma, as he fell If you
- 19:39Speaker 3: ask me, he's that bad. He's fleeting something terrible. Can
- 19:43Speaker 3: we bring you in, MoMA? He can't lie here in
- 19:46Speaker 3: the street, of course, right mama, yeah.
- 19:50Speaker 6: Right hand?
- 19:51Speaker 3: Oh cool, Poor Phyllis.
- 19:57Speaker 4: Do you see what happened to him?
- 19:59Speaker 2: Mister I saw, my good woman a very convincing demonstration.
- 20:03Speaker 2: What do you mean, weren't you paid by a certain
- 20:06Speaker 2: gentlemen for this performance?
- 20:08Speaker 4: Oh he knows about it too. You must be a
- 20:11Speaker 4: friend of mister Sherlock Holmes.
- 20:13Speaker 3: I am.
- 20:14Speaker 4: How nice gentlemen you give us five barbered peeps to
- 20:17Speaker 4: for the night's work. We ain't through yet, though.
- 20:20Speaker 1: We've got to start yelling fower when somebody.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Tells us I'm not somebody, my dear lady. There's mister Holmes.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Now he's inside the house.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Yes, he's out in the window.
- 20:28Speaker 3: I was raising his hand. That's my signal how to
- 20:30Speaker 3: throw the rocket. There we are homes there you are.
- 20:52Speaker 3: You have the photograph, But I.
- 20:54Speaker 4: Know where it is. He showed me as I told
- 20:56Speaker 4: her she would.
- 20:57Speaker 3: I'm stood in the dark.
- 20:58Speaker 4: There's miss jel Chap.
- 20:59Speaker 5: When my comes tarted around the street, I had a
- 21:01Speaker 5: little moist red paint in my hand. My good friend
- 21:04Speaker 5: Alfred pretended to strike me. I tapped my hand to
- 21:06Speaker 5: my head and fell down.
- 21:07Speaker 4: Small trick.
- 21:08Speaker 3: Did I understand that? How did my throwing the rock?
- 21:10Speaker 3: It help?
- 21:11Speaker 4: It? All important, my dear fellow.
- 21:12Speaker 5: When a woman thinks her house is on fire, her
- 21:14Speaker 5: instinct is at once to rush for the thing that
- 21:16Speaker 5: she values most. I married one grabs her baby, and
- 21:19Speaker 5: unmarried one riches for her jawabox.
- 21:21Speaker 4: In this case, of course, it was the photograph.
- 21:24Speaker 5: Where was it in the recess in the living room,
- 21:26Speaker 5: just about the right hand bell call I caught a
- 21:28Speaker 5: glimpse of it as she drew it out. When I
- 21:31Speaker 5: made it known that the fire was a false alarm,
- 21:33Speaker 5: she replaced the photograph as soon as I was able to.
- 21:36Speaker 5: I had advised her that I was feeling well enough
- 21:38Speaker 5: to leave.
- 21:38Speaker 3: And didn't take the photographer.
- 21:40Speaker 6: No.
- 21:40Speaker 4: I felt that over precipitance of this stage might go
- 21:43Speaker 4: in everything.
- 21:43Speaker 3: What do we do now?
- 21:44Speaker 5: Right to the langamow tellon and formed his majesty of
- 21:46Speaker 5: what has happened? Then return with him here. After that,
- 21:49Speaker 5: my dear Chap, the case will be ended. This is
- 22:10Speaker 5: brandie large, your majesty Ash, I'm all impatience yourself and
- 22:14Speaker 5: the photographs will still be there, mister, I have every
- 22:16Speaker 5: reason to believe so, your majesty, mm I must confess
- 22:22Speaker 5: this is going to be something about what to use,
- 22:24Speaker 5: and I suggest that you let me do the talking,
- 22:26Speaker 5: your majesty, I think I know how to handle the lady,
- 22:37Speaker 5: mister Sherlock Holmes.
- 22:38Speaker 4: I believe, yes, I am, mister Holmes. But how did
- 22:41Speaker 4: you know? My mistress told me it would be likely
- 22:43Speaker 4: to call. She's left for the continent with her husband.
- 22:46Speaker 4: You mean she's left room in the papers and the
- 22:50Speaker 4: photographs all is lost? Will soon see follow me?
- 22:55Speaker 1: He said, you'd be looking for something.
- 22:57Speaker 4: I hope you'll find it.
- 23:01Speaker 5: This was their rope sliding panel behind it. H huh,
- 23:05Speaker 5: there it is, Yeah, it's it's the photographs here, mister Holmes.
- 23:13Speaker 5: There is a photograph, your majesty, but it's a photograph
- 23:17Speaker 5: of the lady alone.
- 23:18Speaker 4: He has a letter and it's addressed me.
- 23:21Speaker 5: I wanted to say, Holmes, my dear, mister Sherlock Holmes,
- 23:24Speaker 5: you really did it very well.
- 23:26Speaker 4: Until after the fire alarm, I had no suspicion.
- 23:28Speaker 5: But then, when I realized how I had betrayed myself,
- 23:32Speaker 5: I began to think I'd been warned that.
- 23:35Speaker 4: If the King employed an agent, he would certainly employ you.
- 23:38Speaker 5: May I congratulate you on your disguise as a du oldtrap.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Got you's much more color than your thought home.
- 23:44Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, go on, what else does it see?
- 23:47Speaker 5: And my husband and I both thought of the best
- 23:49Speaker 5: recourse was flight. So you will find the nest empty.
- 23:54Speaker 5: As to the photograph of the King and myself, his
- 23:57Speaker 5: Majesty may rest in peace. Oh thank goodness for that.
- 24:00Speaker 5: I love and am loved by a better man. And
- 24:03Speaker 5: he I leave another photograph, however, that he might care
- 24:07Speaker 5: to possess, and I remain dear mister Sherlock comes very
- 24:11Speaker 5: truly yours. Irene Norton nay Adler. What a woman, Watson
- 24:18Speaker 5: water woman, what a magnificent woman. She fooled me completely.
- 24:21Speaker 5: But oh I I'm sorry, your majesty, I've been unable
- 24:25Speaker 5: to bring your business to a more successful conclusion. On
- 24:28Speaker 5: the contrary, my dear sir, nothing could be more successful.
- 24:32Speaker 5: I know that Irene's word is inviolate. The incriminating photograph
- 24:36Speaker 5: is now as safe as it did were in the fire.
- 24:38Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad to hear your Majesty says.
- 24:40Speaker 4: I am immensely indebted to you.
- 24:43Speaker 5: Pray tell me in front three I can reward you this,
- 24:46Speaker 5: this barrel ring that I wear.
- 24:48Speaker 4: I should be proud.
- 24:50Speaker 5: Your Majesty has something that I should value with Mohaley.
- 24:53Speaker 4: You have but to name it.
- 24:55Speaker 5: This photograph, Sir Irene's photograph. But certainly, however, you must
- 25:00Speaker 5: let me give you something more substantial. No, your majesty, this,
- 25:04Speaker 5: this is something I shall treasure all my life. This
- 25:07Speaker 5: and a golden sovereign I received from the lady's hand.
- 25:11Speaker 5: It will remind me that I was once tricked by
- 25:13Speaker 5: a woman, a woman that I shall never forget.