August 3, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Basil rath Bone and the new Adventures.
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Of Sherlock Home.
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The Petrie family, the family that took time to bring
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that master Detective Sherlock Home.
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And now I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson is
ready for us. Let's go in and join.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Come in, Oh there, you almost bought her good evening?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Are you all ready with the nice new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'm ready if you on the boy, how would you
like to hear a story that took patient Italy?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
In Italy?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Say you and the great Cheerlock home certainly did get around?
What took you there?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We've gone to Rome to investigate the sudden death of
Cardinal Tosca, an inquiry which I may tell you, mister Bartell,
was carried out by Holmes at the express desire of
his holiness, the Pope. And say, doctor, that sounds like,
oh no, no, mister Bartell, that's the story that I
am afraid I can never tell you. However, tonight's adventure
took place a few days after Holmes had brought his
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case to a satisfactory though somewhat terrifying conclusion. I suggested
to the great Man that a short holiday would be
good for us before returning to England. And so we
spent some happy days browsing among the architectural traces of
old Rome, the Colosseum, the baths of Caracalla, the Forum,
the wonderful ruins on the Palatine Hill. I couldn't drag
homes away from mister Bartell, and at night time he
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was able to indounce to his heart's content his great
love of music. Finally, it was two nights before we
were to sail for England. I remember we went to
the opera house to hear the famous Italian soprano Gina
Valcaesi singing bared his immortal l traviata. I can hear
that exquisite voice now, mister Bartel, as hoes and I
seated in the box, listened Spale down to the great
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bell Casey singing her last he.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Que a hoy S Watson, What a magnificent boy. Yes
it is, Holmes.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So pretty though that most Offera stars who see a
nightingale seemed to have the figures of unusually well fed
out of pigeons.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Poor woman.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
She must wave least twenty stone. Nevertheless, you mustn't prefer
to her as poor, my dear jap.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Despite her some out unfortunate proportions, Signora tuned about case
remains one of the greatest and wealthiest of contemporous funnels.
Listening to her pa and not a listen sing a OnCore.
We might as well go back to addressing them now
the operas o.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, we going back to herdress. During the last division,
I received a note from her requesting my attendance. What
did the notes say?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, it seems that the lady is not too popular
with certain members of the opera company. Well, I've no
wish to become entangled in any opera clashed temperaments, I
confess I find myself not a little interested in meeting
the lady she's been seeing a blancore.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Are you really going back to her dressing?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
A summons from you know is no more to be
disobeyed than our royal commands.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I must ask her, you, gentlemen, not to stand outside
bla bark a dressing room. We permit on our strangers,
particularly for us.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The Senora has requested our presence. May I ask who
you are.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Permit me to introduce to myself, gentlemen, I am Armando Belini,
Inspector of Police.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
My name is Homes. Sheilla comes and this is my friend,
doctor Watson. Sure lack of Homes ah, but this is
a great honor.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Allow me to apologize here in the opera, eurse.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We have to be so careful.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You understand that of be intrigued. There are so many
but Senor Homes and his friend. I am so happy
to meet you both at headquarters. I hear wonderful reports
of your work.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And the Cardinal Toskap I prefer not to mention that
unfortunate matter. Inspector accept on the conditions of extreme privacy
are quite so.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And behind the scenes that the opera is not the
most secluded place. Please to forgive me. You are waiting
still level cases. Yes, she is still on the stage,
as she has requested your presence.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
You say in your home, Yes, I trust the meeting
is to be a social and not a profession. No
one where staying for England in a couple of days, and.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You come to hear the great virquesa singer before you.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Left, must understand a magnificent voice. Inspector yes, a doctor
and still well, I am a devout operl ova myself.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yet I cannot help but feel it's a futilizer with
those who can add a youth and bety into a
great volar.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
That's true, true sign. But where can you find such
a combination? I have found it here in the opera.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
There is a girl. She is my protege. Some day
I hope she will be my wife. At the moment
she is only understudying La Balcsi. If she should ever
get the opportunity of seeing her her place, then a
new star will be born.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Really, what's her name?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Lisa Bordoni.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
She has but recently come to Ron from Milano, where
she was studied with the great Alphaer. Confidentially, I think
that laval Casey is so jealous of all that here
is Lisa now, and that is her brother with her,
that Lisa Karma pleaser to join us, by goge, What
a beautiful girl? What is did Armando permit me to
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present the famous English detecative senior shell like a Holmes
and his friend doctor Watts.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You do you do, young lady?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Glad to meet you both. This is my brother worry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Going to do I certainly feel that I know a
lot about you, two gentlemen. No, I can't tell you
how many times I've read your stories, Doctor Watson in Dieta.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I'm very flattered, Lisa Karma, and we were just a
saying that an youth and the beauty combined with the
voice lies our future harp in the offera your They
will come, Lisa Mirr, they will come soon.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I hope you're right, Armando, But as long as I
understand a Gina Valcati, I don't see when I'll get
my chance if she's disgustingly healthy.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
If you're about my saying so, young lady, though your
name is BORDONI you and your brother don't sound to
the East.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Italian, but we're not, mister Holmes, We're American. But to
succeed in Italian opera, my sister has found that the
Italian name is essential, so the Bordon family became the Borders.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
In any case, my real name is Lizzie Bordon.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
I'm sure you, mister Holmes, is a famous detective. She
will see that I had to change my name.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I can will understand who was Lizzie boy.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Well, my never are one of the greatest and most
successful of murderesses, who will enacts with incredible dexterity. I've
often regretted that I was in Tibet instead of America
at the time of that particular case in your arms.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I do not understand you Angelo's accents to me, and
murderous is a murderous Now when you speak of a
greatness in women, I feel But here comes jin Abal Casey.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now I will introduce.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You many times, but I tell you a lot. No,
I want to stand outside by Trasy Rome. Send him away,
Love Casey is time.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But do you wish to see Senior shell Uck Holmes
said the famous detective.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Here's a come here in answer to your request. Please
uponmit me to present him.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And also is a friend, Doctor Watts?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Are you losing?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'm Readianna to meet you, senor Dr Casey. And now
perhaps if we may come into your dressing room and
can sir privately?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
What would love?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But did you have to say to a detective, I
mean you're not the police. That's zero, okay?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
What you get that she slammed the door in my face?
Water waiter, bring me some more coffee. Please say you're
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very pleasant dining here on the hotel. Tell us someone's confess.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Amazingly considering yesterday snow, yes it is later.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I suggest we pay another visit to the opera, and
yeah about Cases, saying you'll done Rigoletto.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh, my soul, Homes, it seems to me that you're
astonishingly casual after the way that woman insulted you last night,
spamming the door in your faces.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
If you were a tradesman, shocking.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
What would you have me do, my dear chap, boss
my way into a into a room, demand an apology,
or I have my friend challenge her to what duell
in order to offend my honor. Oh, don't try to
be funny, Homes.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You know perfectly well what I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The lady asks you to come and see her, and
when you do, she pretends she's never heard of you.
And here it is nearly twenty four hours later, and
you've done absolutely nothing about her.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Dearl Watson nearly quite upset over the affair, aren't you well?
If it will make you any happier, let me tell
you what I have done something about it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I hear it what This morning I was able.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
To obtain a specimen of bradal Case's handwriting from an
autograph picture in the possession of Inspector Bilinae. I compared
the writing with that on the note and I that
I received from the box last night. It was that
it was the same, proving that the message I received
was authentical.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
In that case, why did she snub you like that? Well,
something was to find her.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I suppose something or someone who was standing at the
dressing room door with us.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, who was the inspect of Blini, Lisa Bordoni and
her brother.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Therefore, we may assume that La Valkeese had notes to
recognize me their presence.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But if you think they're those, why haven't you been
in touch with her today? She may be in some
dreadful way.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
If she is, she can find me easily enough. I meanwhile,
I'm perfectly happy to be alone. The last few weeks
have been sufficiently strenuous. Willout becoming involved in some fresh case?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Im I so home?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You must be tired. I've never known you to be
so indifferent to a case.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Great Scott is Watson look walking to waters Signora vel
CAZy herself and judging.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
From the expression, she seems to be in some distressed
could mean Senola, you wrong I must speaks I Joe,
this is my colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
How do you do First, I'm not apologize for my
behavior last to night. She would have been dangerous if.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
That old Katie had acknowledged that she had to communicate
with you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's just what my friend assumed.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
A lease speak quite pretty now, Senola, no one can
overhear us seen.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I am a being persecute. My life is in a danger.
You want have saved me be dreading see seas and
now today tried to do as a stroke my sist.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
My beloved Bella, their death from a murderous attack, an
attack that was a meant for me.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Good Lord, what happened, madam?
Speaker 9 (12:05):
If you will please to keep it quiet and level
that Jesus speak, will I learn that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Sorry, madam the money.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
This is the morning, nor is myself. Take my dog
for a walk, but this is the morning. I feel
the trace of a cold. I asked my sister to
take the dog for a walk. Please don't understand that
my seater is a very much like me, a peeress.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I understand, Senora. Please continue.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She woke alone in the park from nowhere her husband
come gallop and the ride her door sink. How much
I learned from the traces in the snow when I
pray and goes to find her.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Was she able to tell you who the horseman was?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, she cannot speaks to you. They say at the
hospital that her skull is a fractured, that she may
not leave it in your arms.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
That attack, it was a.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Meant for me. You must have protected me.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I shall do everything in my No, No, what's.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Wrong, madam?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Somewhere to the cat I know, I cannot.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I'll make it go away. Please, I gotta stand some
without even a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, no, I.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It must be your imagination.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I am sorry to make such a scene, but I
cannot appear to be nearing cap I cannot tell you
what it.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Does to me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
May sound no, no, not a sula. Such a condition
is quite common. In fact, I believe medical science has
given it a name. It's known as ila.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Whatever is called make me ill.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
I must go to my room. I cannot stand much more,
My poor.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I imagine your sister death. Do Simula, you will not
sing tonight?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
See your arms. I love her very much, but even
as sister, he is only a sister.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
My heart is my life in an hour, singer, I
think you'll either wriggle let though, you will attend the performance,
and afterwards you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Will tell aloud that Katy as she may trap.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
This devil who'll stick to destroyer. Oh Holmes, it's after
I'm thirty. We've missed quite a lot of the opera.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Hardly worth going to our box now, just been time
to hear about kids hastening the incomparable caronomy Alta. Let's
set in quite as we can.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Seems to me we should have been in our box
from the beginning of the performance. She asked you to
keep an eye on it and as all chance.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
But it occurred to me that an attack on her
during the performance was unlikely, and that our time might
be more proper to pretent thinking inquiries of the writing academy.
She drew a blank with there no trace of that
mysterious rider. No, but at least be tried. Here we are.
Let's turned at the back of the fear.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
For few minutes.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
It's Scott that isn't our cases singing. It's I'm just study.
But he is proto shape the American girl. He said, well,
don't it what a beautiful life? Fun but with a beautiful,
so wonderful range. Okare we We have no time to
listen to her now and this go to that out
cases dressing him at once. We know she left the
tonight with the intention of singing. I'm very much afraid
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there's devil's work of what wats you? Why doesn't she answer?
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Listen right, that's inside her dressing room. Come on, watch
them look, let just hold it for it. Come on,
help me, Come on, that's more. Come on now'n't there.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Freaks cut? She's unconscious, Watson, See what you can do
for her. She must have think it's a spice.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yes, some fiend, knowing her deadly fear of cats as
lucked her in here with half a dozen of them.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
True, Poe off me shoe.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Her eyes are opening, homes, she's coming too, seor DARKIZI.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Her lips are moving, she's trying to speak.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Signor darkies? Tell me who did this to you?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Great heavens?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Her voice gone. I've known many vicious crimes my lifetime, Watson,
But to murder a voice, a voice that was one
of the treasures of the world, is as by a
killing as I've ever encountered.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
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Speaker 1 (17:34):
Doctor Watson saw the great.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Opera singer lost her voice when someone locked in a
room full of cats.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Huh, what did you and Sherlock Holmes do?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We took senior Valcazy back to her hotel at once,
and so that she was properly taken care of.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How did the understudy Lisa Bordoni make out?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The tragedy of the Dover tookk Valcazy gave her her
great chance. She received a tremendous ovationion of the close
of the performance, and it seemed certain that another star
had been borne. But let me tell you the story
just as if happened, mister Bartel. A little later that night,
Holmes and I.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Were once again standing on the balcony of our.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Hotel, watching a crowd of people.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That are assembled in the courts.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Do you see that crowd, Watson, Yes, I suppose they've
come here to acclaim the news stuff. Oh no, my
dear fellow, that crowd isn't planning a celebration. Look at
them and listen to their angry murmuring her faith. There's
going to be trouble. I don't like to look at it. Hello,
here comes Lisa Border and his brother.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Worry.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
What rum'sir?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Mister Holmes, Mister Holses, you've got to do something. What's happened?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, somehow the story about the cats in Lord Old
Casey's dressing room is spread. The crowd outside are saying
that my sister Lisa planned the whole thing so that
she could sink all Casey's part in the opportunity of
her sister. Now in a room at the hotel here,
I managed to get her away from the crowd and
I locked her in.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The mob I'm fighting.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Ah yeah, comes the official representative, the blond daughter and
inspected Billina Walla.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Where is Lisa?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I was just telling mister Holmes that I'd locked her
in a room, and that crowd's in a dangerous mood.
You ain't what precautions you're taking.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I ever thrown a card on a polish around the hotel.
The mob is getting out of my hand on the moon.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I must be protected.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
As a matter of fact, the situation is even worse
than the crowd knows. I have just been told that
labat Case's twin sister, Bella died in the hospital to night,
that I had some murder charge. If the crowd knew
about that, I tremble to think what might happen?
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Did you say that laid Casey's sister there was a twin,
Inspector says, in your arms, she was a hor exact
double in everything but voice.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Indeed, how very illuminating. If you don't mind I striking
a few words in private with my friend, Doctor Watson
excuses prommandes, what do you make of at homes? Why
do you will chat?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
The American girl seemed really charming and all that, but
she might have done it. It had to be either her,
her brother, or the inspector himself. They all had a
motive for wanting La Belle Casey to lose her voice.
But I would say, I can't understand the motive behind
the murder of her twin sister.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think I can give you the answer to that
question in aoy two minutes. But meanwhile the mob gets
uglier and uglier. The only way to avert violence, Watson,
is to give them proof and there certainty of conviction
and just go back to BERLINI and the American and
I want to keep an eye on them. Meanwhile, I
want you to slip out and get me a cat.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Cat.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You will find out soon enough.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
What kind of a cat?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Any kind? But hurry, come on, kitty, Come on, kitty.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There's a good kitty. Yeah here, Yeah, what you're doing
a hotel kage?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Senor? Oh? You want to play with my cat?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Or?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is he you're a cat? Johnny Little? I'd like to
borrow him for a little while. Why you want to
borrow my cat? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I thought i'd take him up to my hotel room
and have a little game with him. I've got some
old socks he can play with.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Deal.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
The English had a crazy race. My cat does not
like to play with the old socks.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Look here, he has fifty lire for you.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Oh no, no, no, I tell you my cat does
not like to play with old socks. My cat will
stay here and you can keep in your mind. I'll
give you a hundred lyric dog that you.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
May stuff my cat full of old socks.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
No, no, give me back.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
Makes this with you, you'll get it back the stuffing
stuff in the crazy englishman, he's stealing my cart.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, I got a cat for your homes, but I
wish you'd tell me what we're doing outside Valkes's door
with it.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm going to try an experiment. You open the backroom
door softly, so slip the cat in so and close
the door.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Homes Man, what.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The places you think you're doing? You'll drive on.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Man, I did not listen and watch through the keyhole.
If you can Holmes come back, Yes, I thought it might.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I can see her through the keyhole. She's picking the
cat up by the scruff of its neck.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
She's walking toward the.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Balconyes, and towards the crouch down below. An excellent opportunity
for a public confession.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Come on, come on, what do you want?
Speaker 13 (22:24):
I charge you with the murder of your sister, the
great singer about Kissy if there was a magnificence in
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your homes, a magnifers the way you force her to
confess on the balcony and the foreside of the muth
and so.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You saved Lisa.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I can't thank you enough, mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
No can I though I still don't see how you
guessed she up so much like her sister, the chief
FOOLI in me her understands.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, it was an extremely cunning plot, mister Dunney. Maril
Valcase sent me that note last night. When I met
her at the dressing room door, she denied having sent
for me. Because the three of you were there, I
suppose that she suspected one of us. Oh yes, obviously
and no doubt. She told her twin sister Bella and
about having sent me the message, and also announced her
intention of coming to see me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Tell Us saw her opportunity murdered.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
La Valkase assumed her identity and to give added realism
to her role, followed through with her sister's plan by
coming to see me today, But I.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Still don't understand this business, mister Holmes. Why did the
twin sister lock herself in her dress room and fill
it with cats?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
What did it accomplish?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It gave me the chance to say.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's true, which is why Watson felt certain the criminal
must be you, your brother, or signor Belline. But you see,
the episode of the cats accoplished on another thing. It
made it plausible that the great Bealcase should never sing again.
To whose advantage would there be foster across a person
or a twin sister who could not sing, and who
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must surely end her sister's great Now exactly, my dear fellow.
As soon as I knew they were twin sisters and
everything but vice, it became more than a possibility. It
became probability. But it had to be tested. That's why
I sent for the cat, Watson. When the sister, thinking
herself unobserved, exhibited no terror for cats, well, it became
a certainty on my soul.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Home. This is as fantastic as plot as ever.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We've met a diabolical plan, Watson, and I'm only thankful
Miss Boudonney that we were able to expose it. Before
the crowd reached you tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't know what I can ever do to repay you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Oh that would be hard, my dear. A box of
clock and garden for your London debut would be well
an ample repayment. And from what I hear of your
reception in Rigoletto tonight, I shan't have to wait very
long for that reward, eh.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
En, excuse to be pleased.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
All over the hotel I look up for my cat,
I say to myself, pease, he's stealing my cat.
Speaker 12 (24:58):
He's pector Bellina you were next time he tried a
pine and then he run away from the cat and
filling for a holding this suck o.
Speaker 14 (25:06):
Ship doctor, I'd jill like to have a picture of
you running away with that fellow's cat under.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
A cat stealer, you know, a bit funny, mister, Believe me.
It was most embarrassing. I know, but it was all
for a good cause, and I think you were splendid
about the whole thing. Uh. Incidentally, how'd you happen to
look for a cat in a hotel kitchen?
Speaker 15 (25:38):
All there's usually one round the back door of a kitchen,
haven't you ever wandered a well, the backstage in the
hotel fascinating, of course I have, But I've never been
in a hotel kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Then where were you and the wine selling? I should
have known.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
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because when I see a Patrie wine, I know I'm
looking at a good wine.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And Petree wine is good because of the Petrie family.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The Petrie family first started making fine wine before the
beginning of this century, generations ago. Since then, wine making
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So you can take it for granted that the Petrie
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of wine is more than a trademark. It's the personal
assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of wine
in that bottle is good wine. You just can't go
wrong with Petrie wine because Petrie took time to bring
you good wine. Well, doctor Watson, what story are you
planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Next week, mister Bartil, I'm going to tell you a
strange adventure that Holmes and I had many many years ago.
It concerns a young girl, the mutilation of her doll,
and the tragedy that overtook a certain wise woman from
the mountains.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
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and was suggested by an incident in this Arthur Conan
Doyle story.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
The Adventure of Black Peter Music is by Dean Postler.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
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Speaker 3 (27:51):
Same time, same station.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood Studios. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petree family
for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas listed every
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Speaker 1 (28:13):
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tell us another exciting adventure he shared with his good friend,
that master Detective Sherlock Home.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And as for me, well, I'd like to ask you if.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
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Speaker 1 (00:49):
Boy, what a wine.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Look.
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
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And serve it. Probably because five letters P E.
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And now I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson is
ready for us. Let's go in and join.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Come in, Oh there, you almost bought her good evening?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Are you all ready with the nice new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'm ready if you on the boy, how would you
like to hear a story that took patient Italy?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
In Italy?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Say you and the great Cheerlock home certainly did get around?
What took you there?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
We've gone to Rome to investigate the sudden death of
Cardinal Tosca, an inquiry which I may tell you, mister Bartell,
was carried out by Holmes at the express desire of
his holiness, the Pope. And say, doctor, that sounds like,
oh no, no, mister Bartell, that's the story that I
am afraid I can never tell you. However, tonight's adventure
took place a few days after Holmes had brought his
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case to a satisfactory though somewhat terrifying conclusion. I suggested
to the great Man that a short holiday would be
good for us before returning to England. And so we
spent some happy days browsing among the architectural traces of
old Rome, the Colosseum, the baths of Caracalla, the Forum,
the wonderful ruins on the Palatine Hill. I couldn't drag
homes away from mister Bartell, and at night time he
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was able to indounce to his heart's content his great
love of music. Finally, it was two nights before we
were to sail for England. I remember we went to
the opera house to hear the famous Italian soprano Gina
Valcaesi singing bared his immortal l traviata. I can hear
that exquisite voice now, mister Bartel, as hoes and I
seated in the box, listened Spale down to the great
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bell Casey singing her last he.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Que a hoy S Watson, What a magnificent boy. Yes
it is, Holmes.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So pretty though that most Offera stars who see a
nightingale seemed to have the figures of unusually well fed
out of pigeons.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Poor woman.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
She must wave least twenty stone. Nevertheless, you mustn't prefer
to her as poor, my dear jap.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Despite her some out unfortunate proportions, Signora tuned about case
remains one of the greatest and wealthiest of contemporous funnels.
Listening to her pa and not a listen sing a OnCore.
We might as well go back to addressing them now
the operas o.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, we going back to herdress. During the last division,
I received a note from her requesting my attendance. What
did the notes say?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, it seems that the lady is not too popular
with certain members of the opera company. Well, I've no
wish to become entangled in any opera clashed temperaments, I
confess I find myself not a little interested in meeting
the lady she's been seeing a blancore.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Are you really going back to her dressing?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
A summons from you know is no more to be
disobeyed than our royal commands.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I must ask her, you, gentlemen, not to stand outside
bla bark a dressing room. We permit on our strangers,
particularly for us.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The Senora has requested our presence. May I ask who
you are.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Permit me to introduce to myself, gentlemen, I am Armando Belini,
Inspector of Police.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
My name is Homes. Sheilla comes and this is my friend,
doctor Watson. Sure lack of Homes ah, but this is
a great honor.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Allow me to apologize here in the opera, eurse.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We have to be so careful.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You understand that of be intrigued. There are so many
but Senor Homes and his friend. I am so happy
to meet you both at headquarters. I hear wonderful reports
of your work.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And the Cardinal Toskap I prefer not to mention that
unfortunate matter. Inspector accept on the conditions of extreme privacy
are quite so.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And behind the scenes that the opera is not the
most secluded place. Please to forgive me. You are waiting
still level cases. Yes, she is still on the stage,
as she has requested your presence.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
You say in your home, Yes, I trust the meeting
is to be a social and not a profession. No
one where staying for England in a couple of days, and.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You come to hear the great virquesa singer before you.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Left, must understand a magnificent voice. Inspector yes, a doctor
and still well, I am a devout operl ova myself.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yet I cannot help but feel it's a futilizer with
those who can add a youth and bety into a
great volar.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
That's true, true sign. But where can you find such
a combination? I have found it here in the opera.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
There is a girl. She is my protege. Some day
I hope she will be my wife. At the moment
she is only understudying La Balcsi. If she should ever
get the opportunity of seeing her her place, then a
new star will be born.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Really, what's her name?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Lisa Bordoni.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
She has but recently come to Ron from Milano, where
she was studied with the great Alphaer. Confidentially, I think
that laval Casey is so jealous of all that here
is Lisa now, and that is her brother with her,
that Lisa Karma pleaser to join us, by goge, What
a beautiful girl? What is did Armando permit me to
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present the famous English detecative senior shell like a Holmes
and his friend doctor Watts.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You do you do, young lady?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Glad to meet you both. This is my brother worry, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Going to do I certainly feel that I know a
lot about you, two gentlemen. No, I can't tell you
how many times I've read your stories, Doctor Watson in Dieta.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I'm very flattered, Lisa Karma, and we were just a
saying that an youth and the beauty combined with the
voice lies our future harp in the offera your They
will come, Lisa Mirr, they will come soon.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
I hope you're right, Armando, But as long as I
understand a Gina Valcati, I don't see when I'll get
my chance if she's disgustingly healthy.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
If you're about my saying so, young lady, though your
name is BORDONI you and your brother don't sound to
the East.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Italian, but we're not, mister Holmes, We're American. But to
succeed in Italian opera, my sister has found that the
Italian name is essential, so the Bordon family became the Borders.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
In any case, my real name is Lizzie Bordon.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
I'm sure you, mister Holmes, is a famous detective. She
will see that I had to change my name.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I can will understand who was Lizzie boy.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Well, my never are one of the greatest and most
successful of murderesses, who will enacts with incredible dexterity. I've
often regretted that I was in Tibet instead of America
at the time of that particular case in your arms.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I do not understand you Angelo's accents to me, and
murderous is a murderous Now when you speak of a
greatness in women, I feel But here comes jin Abal Casey.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now I will introduce.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You many times, but I tell you a lot. No,
I want to stand outside by Trasy Rome. Send him away,
Love Casey is time.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But do you wish to see Senior shell Uck Holmes
said the famous detective.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Here's a come here in answer to your request. Please
uponmit me to present him.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And also is a friend, Doctor Watts?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Are you losing?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'm Readianna to meet you, senor Dr Casey. And now
perhaps if we may come into your dressing room and
can sir privately?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
What would love?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But did you have to say to a detective, I
mean you're not the police. That's zero, okay?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
What you get that she slammed the door in my face?
Water waiter, bring me some more coffee. Please say you're
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very pleasant dining here on the hotel. Tell us someone's confess.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Amazingly considering yesterday snow, yes it is later.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
I suggest we pay another visit to the opera, and
yeah about Cases, saying you'll done Rigoletto.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh, my soul, Homes, it seems to me that you're
astonishingly casual after the way that woman insulted you last night,
spamming the door in your faces.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
If you were a tradesman, shocking.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
What would you have me do, my dear chap, boss
my way into a into a room, demand an apology,
or I have my friend challenge her to what duell
in order to offend my honor. Oh, don't try to
be funny, Homes.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You know perfectly well what I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The lady asks you to come and see her, and
when you do, she pretends she's never heard of you.
And here it is nearly twenty four hours later, and
you've done absolutely nothing about her.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Dearl Watson nearly quite upset over the affair, aren't you well?
If it will make you any happier, let me tell
you what I have done something about it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I hear it what This morning I was able.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
To obtain a specimen of bradal Case's handwriting from an
autograph picture in the possession of Inspector Bilinae. I compared
the writing with that on the note and I that
I received from the box last night. It was that
it was the same, proving that the message I received
was authentical.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
In that case, why did she snub you like that? Well,
something was to find her.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I suppose something or someone who was standing at the
dressing room door with us.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, who was the inspect of Blini, Lisa Bordoni and
her brother.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Therefore, we may assume that La Valkeese had notes to
recognize me their presence.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But if you think they're those, why haven't you been
in touch with her today? She may be in some
dreadful way.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
If she is, she can find me easily enough. I meanwhile,
I'm perfectly happy to be alone. The last few weeks
have been sufficiently strenuous. Willout becoming involved in some fresh case?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Im I so home?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You must be tired. I've never known you to be
so indifferent to a case.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Great Scott is Watson look walking to waters Signora vel
CAZy herself and judging.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
From the expression, she seems to be in some distressed
could mean Senola, you wrong I must speaks I Joe,
this is my colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
How do you do First, I'm not apologize for my
behavior last to night. She would have been dangerous if.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
That old Katie had acknowledged that she had to communicate
with you.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's just what my friend assumed.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
A lease speak quite pretty now, Senola, no one can
overhear us seen.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I am a being persecute. My life is in a danger.
You want have saved me be dreading see seas and
now today tried to do as a stroke my sist.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
My beloved Bella, their death from a murderous attack, an
attack that was a meant for me.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Good Lord, what happened, madam?
Speaker 9 (12:05):
If you will please to keep it quiet and level
that Jesus speak, will I learn that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Sorry, madam the money.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
This is the morning, nor is myself. Take my dog
for a walk, but this is the morning. I feel
the trace of a cold. I asked my sister to
take the dog for a walk. Please don't understand that
my seater is a very much like me, a peeress.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I understand, Senora. Please continue.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
She woke alone in the park from nowhere her husband
come gallop and the ride her door sink. How much
I learned from the traces in the snow when I
pray and goes to find her.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Was she able to tell you who the horseman was?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, she cannot speaks to you. They say at the
hospital that her skull is a fractured, that she may
not leave it in your arms.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
That attack, it was a.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Meant for me. You must have protected me.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I shall do everything in my No, No, what's.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Wrong, madam?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Somewhere to the cat I know, I cannot.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I'll make it go away. Please, I gotta stand some
without even a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, no, I.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It must be your imagination.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I am sorry to make such a scene, but I
cannot appear to be nearing cap I cannot tell you
what it.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Does to me.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
May sound no, no, not a sula. Such a condition
is quite common. In fact, I believe medical science has
given it a name. It's known as ila.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Whatever is called make me ill.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
I must go to my room. I cannot stand much more,
My poor.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
I imagine your sister death. Do Simula, you will not
sing tonight?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
See your arms. I love her very much, but even
as sister, he is only a sister.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
My heart is my life in an hour, singer, I
think you'll either wriggle let though, you will attend the performance,
and afterwards you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Will tell aloud that Katy as she may trap.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
This devil who'll stick to destroyer. Oh Holmes, it's after
I'm thirty. We've missed quite a lot of the opera.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Hardly worth going to our box now, just been time
to hear about kids hastening the incomparable caronomy Alta. Let's
set in quite as we can.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Seems to me we should have been in our box
from the beginning of the performance. She asked you to
keep an eye on it and as all chance.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
But it occurred to me that an attack on her
during the performance was unlikely, and that our time might
be more proper to pretent thinking inquiries of the writing academy.
She drew a blank with there no trace of that
mysterious rider. No, but at least be tried. Here we are.
Let's turned at the back of the fear.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
For few minutes.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
It's Scott that isn't our cases singing. It's I'm just study.
But he is proto shape the American girl. He said, well,
don't it what a beautiful life? Fun but with a beautiful,
so wonderful range. Okare we We have no time to
listen to her now and this go to that out
cases dressing him at once. We know she left the
tonight with the intention of singing. I'm very much afraid
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there's devil's work of what wats you? Why doesn't she answer?
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Listen right, that's inside her dressing room. Come on, watch
them look, let just hold it for it. Come on,
help me, Come on, that's more. Come on now'n't there.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Freaks cut? She's unconscious, Watson, See what you can do
for her. She must have think it's a spice.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yes, some fiend, knowing her deadly fear of cats as
lucked her in here with half a dozen of them.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
True, Poe off me shoe.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Her eyes are opening, homes, she's coming too, seor DARKIZI.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Her lips are moving, she's trying to speak.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Signor darkies? Tell me who did this to you?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Great heavens?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Her voice gone. I've known many vicious crimes my lifetime, Watson,
But to murder a voice, a voice that was one
of the treasures of the world, is as by a
killing as I've ever encountered.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story
in just a few seconds. And right now would be
a wonderful time to try a glass of Patrie California Port.
In the evening after dinner, Well, any time you're taking
things easy is the perfect time for Petri Port. Petri
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you like to sift slowly so you won't miss a
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I say you owe it to yourself and your family
to try Petri Port. In fact, you should try petri
Port and Petrie Muscatel. So don't buy one by two,
buy both Port and Muscatel. Just be sure you get Petrie,
because Petrie wine is always good wine.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Doctor Watson saw the great.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Opera singer lost her voice when someone locked in a
room full of cats.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Huh, what did you and Sherlock Holmes do?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We took senior Valcazy back to her hotel at once,
and so that she was properly taken care of.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How did the understudy Lisa Bordoni make out?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The tragedy of the Dover tookk Valcazy gave her her
great chance. She received a tremendous ovationion of the close
of the performance, and it seemed certain that another star
had been borne. But let me tell you the story
just as if happened, mister Bartel. A little later that night,
Holmes and I.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Were once again standing on the balcony of our.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Hotel, watching a crowd of people.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That are assembled in the courts.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Do you see that crowd, Watson, Yes, I suppose they've
come here to acclaim the news stuff. Oh no, my
dear fellow, that crowd isn't planning a celebration. Look at
them and listen to their angry murmuring her faith. There's
going to be trouble. I don't like to look at it. Hello,
here comes Lisa Border and his brother.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Worry.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
What rum'sir?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Mister Holmes, Mister Holses, you've got to do something. What's happened?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, somehow the story about the cats in Lord Old
Casey's dressing room is spread. The crowd outside are saying
that my sister Lisa planned the whole thing so that
she could sink all Casey's part in the opportunity of
her sister. Now in a room at the hotel here,
I managed to get her away from the crowd and
I locked her in.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The mob I'm fighting.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Ah yeah, comes the official representative, the blond daughter and
inspected Billina Walla.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Where is Lisa?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I was just telling mister Holmes that I'd locked her
in a room, and that crowd's in a dangerous mood.
You ain't what precautions you're taking.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I ever thrown a card on a polish around the hotel.
The mob is getting out of my hand on the moon.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I must be protected.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
As a matter of fact, the situation is even worse
than the crowd knows. I have just been told that
labat Case's twin sister, Bella died in the hospital to night,
that I had some murder charge. If the crowd knew
about that, I tremble to think what might happen?
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Did you say that laid Casey's sister there was a twin,
Inspector says, in your arms, she was a hor exact
double in everything but voice.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Indeed, how very illuminating. If you don't mind I striking
a few words in private with my friend, Doctor Watson
excuses prommandes, what do you make of at homes? Why
do you will chat?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
The American girl seemed really charming and all that, but
she might have done it. It had to be either her,
her brother, or the inspector himself. They all had a
motive for wanting La Belle Casey to lose her voice.
But I would say, I can't understand the motive behind
the murder of her twin sister.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think I can give you the answer to that
question in aoy two minutes. But meanwhile the mob gets
uglier and uglier. The only way to avert violence, Watson,
is to give them proof and there certainty of conviction
and just go back to BERLINI and the American and
I want to keep an eye on them. Meanwhile, I
want you to slip out and get me a cat.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Cat.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You will find out soon enough.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
What kind of a cat?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Any kind? But hurry, come on, kitty, Come on, kitty.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There's a good kitty. Yeah here, Yeah, what you're doing
a hotel kage?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Senor? Oh? You want to play with my cat?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Or?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is he you're a cat? Johnny Little? I'd like to
borrow him for a little while. Why you want to
borrow my cat? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I thought i'd take him up to my hotel room
and have a little game with him. I've got some
old socks he can play with.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Deal.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
The English had a crazy race. My cat does not
like to play with the old socks.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Look here, he has fifty lire for you.
Speaker 12 (20:58):
Oh no, no, no, I tell you my cat does
not like to play with old socks. My cat will
stay here and you can keep in your mind. I'll
give you a hundred lyric dog that you.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
May stuff my cat full of old socks.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
No, no, give me back.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
Makes this with you, you'll get it back the stuffing
stuff in the crazy englishman, he's stealing my cart.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, I got a cat for your homes, but I
wish you'd tell me what we're doing outside Valkes's door
with it.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm going to try an experiment. You open the backroom
door softly, so slip the cat in so and close
the door.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Homes Man, what.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
The places you think you're doing? You'll drive on.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Man, I did not listen and watch through the keyhole.
If you can Holmes come back, Yes, I thought it might.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I can see her through the keyhole. She's picking the
cat up by the scruff of its neck.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
She's walking toward the.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Balconyes, and towards the crouch down below. An excellent opportunity
for a public confession.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Come on, come on, what do you want?
Speaker 13 (22:24):
I charge you with the murder of your sister, the
great singer about Kissy if there was a magnificence in
(22:46):
your homes, a magnifers the way you force her to
confess on the balcony and the foreside of the muth
and so.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You saved Lisa.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I can't thank you enough, mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
No can I though I still don't see how you
guessed she up so much like her sister, the chief
FOOLI in me her understands.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yes, it was an extremely cunning plot, mister Dunney. Maril
Valcase sent me that note last night. When I met
her at the dressing room door, she denied having sent
for me. Because the three of you were there, I
suppose that she suspected one of us. Oh yes, obviously
and no doubt. She told her twin sister Bella and
about having sent me the message, and also announced her
intention of coming to see me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Tell Us saw her opportunity murdered.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
La Valkase assumed her identity and to give added realism
to her role, followed through with her sister's plan by
coming to see me today, But I.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Still don't understand this business, mister Holmes. Why did the
twin sister lock herself in her dress room and fill
it with cats?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
What did it accomplish?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It gave me the chance to say.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's true, which is why Watson felt certain the criminal
must be you, your brother, or signor Belline. But you see,
the episode of the cats accoplished on another thing. It
made it plausible that the great Bealcase should never sing again.
To whose advantage would there be foster across a person
or a twin sister who could not sing, and who
(24:03):
must surely end her sister's great Now exactly, my dear fellow.
As soon as I knew they were twin sisters and
everything but vice, it became more than a possibility. It
became probability. But it had to be tested. That's why
I sent for the cat, Watson. When the sister, thinking
herself unobserved, exhibited no terror for cats, well, it became
a certainty on my soul.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Home. This is as fantastic as plot as ever.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
We've met a diabolical plan, Watson, and I'm only thankful
Miss Boudonney that we were able to expose it. Before
the crowd reached you tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't know what I can ever do to repay you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Oh that would be hard, my dear. A box of
clock and garden for your London debut would be well
an ample repayment. And from what I hear of your
reception in Rigoletto tonight, I shan't have to wait very
long for that reward, eh.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
En, excuse to be pleased.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
All over the hotel I look up for my cat,
I say to myself, pease, he's stealing my cat.
Speaker 12 (24:58):
He's pector Bellina you were next time he tried a
pine and then he run away from the cat and
filling for a holding this suck o.
Speaker 14 (25:06):
Ship doctor, I'd jill like to have a picture of
you running away with that fellow's cat under.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
A cat stealer, you know, a bit funny, mister, Believe me.
It was most embarrassing. I know, but it was all
for a good cause, and I think you were splendid
about the whole thing. Uh. Incidentally, how'd you happen to
look for a cat in a hotel kitchen?
Speaker 15 (25:38):
All there's usually one round the back door of a kitchen,
haven't you ever wandered a well, the backstage in the
hotel fascinating, of course I have, But I've never been
in a hotel kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Then where were you and the wine selling? I should
have known.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yes, I like to look at bottles of Petrie wine
because when I see a Patrie wine, I know I'm
looking at a good wine.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And Petree wine is good because of the Petrie family.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The Petrie family first started making fine wine before the
beginning of this century, generations ago. Since then, wine making
has been their heritage, handed on down from father to son.
So you can take it for granted that the Petrie
family really knows how to turn luscious, sun ripened grapes
into clear, fragrant, delicious wine. And you can take it
(26:24):
for granted too, that the name Petrie on a bottle
of wine is more than a trademark. It's the personal
assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of wine
in that bottle is good wine. You just can't go
wrong with Petrie wine because Petrie took time to bring
you good wine. Well, doctor Watson, what story are you
planning to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Next week, mister Bartil, I'm going to tell you a
strange adventure that Holmes and I had many many years ago.
It concerns a young girl, the mutilation of her doll,
and the tragedy that overtook a certain wise woman from
the mountains.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in this Arthur Conan
Doyle story.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
The Adventure of Black Peter Music is by Dean Postler.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy Petro Baldwin Mayor, and
tonight Doctor Watson was played by mister Eric Snood, who
substituted for mister Nigel Bruce. Mister Bruce is scheduled to
return to the program next week. The Petry Wine Company
(27:47):
of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again
next week.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Same time, same station.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood Studios. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petree family
for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas listed every
Monday on most of these same stations at eight o'clock to.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes. This is the
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