October 19, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pet Tree Wine brings you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures of
Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took time
to bring you good wine, invites you to listen to
doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared with
his old friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes. And I
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want to ask you something you know. Every now and then,
I've told you about the good old American custom of
serving a glass of sherry before dinner, particularly Petrie California sherry.
And I wonder if you've tried that Petrie sherry. Really,
a glass of Petrie sherry is the best beginning a
good meal ever had. Petrie sherry is clear, fragrant, and
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truly delicious. It's a wonderful wine whose flavor is the
essence of luscious sun ripened grapes. And Petrie makes two
kinds of sherry wine, a regular sherry and Petree pale dry.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
If you don't know which you prefer, try them both.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Don't buy one, buy two, but remember always buy Petrie
because Petree wine is always good wine. Well, I'm sure
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doctor Watson is ready for us. Let's go in and
join him, shall.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We evening, mister.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Qui dogs saying very pleased with themselves tonight did they
have a good day's the three of us did?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
My boy the patio, I took.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A seven iron and some old golf poles on the
beach this afternoon and proved my game. I'm thinking the
dogs had a great time chasing the golf poles. On
the way home, the little rascals had a furious battle
with an elderly Pelican, so the day was complete.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'll have to join you on one of your afternoons, Trollers,
Doctor and the dog seem to have so much fun
for we got your comfort, mister Bartell.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well drap your usual churn. I'll get on with tonight Sherlock.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Holmes Adventure from the Hens who gave us last week.
I guess the Frenchman played a prominent part in the story.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, indeed he did, mister Bartell.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
His name was France fir Leavilla. He was a detective
of some notes in his own country the time my
story begins, it was in eighteen hundred and eighty.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Nine, to meet zech Navilla come.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Over to London to discuss with Holmes the difficulties of
translating some of his monographs into the French language. At
this particular time, I was in the early days of
my marriage, mister Bartell. Of this fact, combined with the
busy factice, meant that I saw very little of my
old friend.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He must have missed you, Daker, you do well.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of course he'd admit the fact. But Herbert didn't get
home with my story.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
One troubtless June afternoon, I found myself in the neighborhood
of Baker Street, and I couldn't persist paying a visit
to Holmes.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Missus Hudson was out, but having retained my old letchke,
I let myself in and mounted the familiar stairs. It
gave me a strange feeling as I raised my hand
to knock on what once had been my own living
room door. An aaren, Hello, Oh, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
How very nice.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's great to see you at homes. I'm sorry I
interrupted you. I didn't know that you had.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Company now at all. My dear fellow were delighted. Aunt.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
This is a how you do chantchier. I wouldn't wish
to meet the so charming doctor Watson. Holmes has told
me a great deal about you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That suit she Watson expended old gained a little weight, haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You, Oh, there's a few pounds away.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Don't you You sure that I'm not interrupting you in
some important discussion?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no, shut up.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
There we were having a good natured argument on the
relative abilities of the French criminal compared to the English
your support.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Parts, Levi, I is convinced that the English criminal is
a very dull dog.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Indeed, well, we've met far from dull ones that time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I assure you, Monsieur Levia, Ah, the exceptions rather than
the whole life here moshell lit and aunt Olivia. I
believe me, dear friend, that I will yield to no
one in my admiration of your knowledge and skill. That
is why I wish I could persuade you to practice
in Paris. Ah, there you would find opponents really worthy
of your Still, what can happen to interest you in
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this land of grave frogs, boiled potatoes and pots of tea?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're you're not the flat number of insula I offense,
my friend?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Will you say the English criminal is dull?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Perhaps if you were to read a published story of
man called a Study in scarlet, you think differently. It
tells a very exciting adventure.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
That Holmes and I head.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I have read it, my friend.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
An extremely gripping story. But surely you will admit that
the was essentially of a Melton.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Ah, he's right, but he's perfect, a right, Jomy. What
can I do to vindicate the dishonor of the London criminal?
Let me see? Oh, yes, yes, of course, a copy
of Today's Times. That's fine. I shall introduce you to
a section known as the agony column. Now, oh, yes,
here we are. This should convince you of the color
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and variety of English life. The agony column Mechan's most painful.
What is it for.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
A personal columns?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Lable to contain anything from a lover's frantic appeal to
his lady.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Love to a ransom note.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
In my profession, I've frequently found it an invaluable medium
for contacting the underworld. Yes, now here we are, Yes, nothing, Jemmy,
Oh dear, No, today's column seems rather uninspired. I'm afraid
may I examine it?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Of course, if the lady who helped my little boy
across the road at the corner of Threadwell Street and
Hyauburn last Wednesday at four, or we'll get in touch
with Box eight four five. She will learn of something
to her advantage that we can be more colorful than that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Emparies my friendness. I think we can do better than
that too.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, printer must have been half asleep, but he set
up the type for this adverllisement.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Will any gentlemen interested in discussing cryptography and cipher writing
please communicate with box x ql six nine six.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
The time Why I failed to find this message anymore
stelling than before?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
She didn't want to notice the execrable printing. Dunchem did
I do?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
It is all mixed up the first world will It
starts with the capital W and the capital I the
second world, and he starts with a small A and
then has a capital N and y. It is a
shocking example of typogun.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And when it a.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Curtain of paper noted for its excellence in typesetting, man
realizes that this is no mistake. This is underbeed their
code message.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Hawk Now, my friend, I defy even you to make
a mystery out of the printer's negative Accept.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your challenge, my deal of beyond if you recall the
Baconian bilateral cipher depends upon the use of two sizes
of type. If we group the letters in units of five,
the arrangements of small and capital letters within the groups
should give us the message. Now, let's see two capitals
followed by three small gives us the letter H, and
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then two capitals one small, two more that gives us EH.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I still think you're trying to make an adventure out
of a mere printing aims.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No mere printing accident could sell readily fall into one
of the great traditional ciphers. Now let's see this message
read E help help Q two small QUI culta help,
cultera l L two small and large elms help culta
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elms thirty is yes, pent help cultera elms pence help
quiltera elms pend. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Presumably a man named Quilta who lives at a house
called the Elms in the village of Penge.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Needs help ah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I see it now, a helpless victim help prisoner is
more deserved this message as a as a harmless person,
and restriction instructions that it be printed on this out form.
He knows that the amateurs of cryptography to whom it
is addressed will decipher this cultural help hewell.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Monsieur Villa, you seem ready to grant the adventure can
exist in London.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
After all, the advantage, my dear Watson, of a more
mercurial temperament than the Englishman possessed well and beyond what
about it? So we set off for Pens and rescue
the junior ingenious mister Quilter from what about dire fate
awaits him in the elms. I am all in patience,
s spend it, Watson. I suppose you are too busy
to join us. Too busy well, I mean your practice.
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I'm sure that you have patience will.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Matter of fact, I have two further visits to make today,
one to a pepri old miser who has gout, another
to a wealthy society woman who has a due to
attack of hat Hope Condria they call it, but the
places from.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The home both from I'm coming with your holmes if
you want me, Barbro.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wasn't then grab your hat and coat. The game's a
foot here you are, gents, the helms Pin. Nice afternoon
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for a drive, wasn't it? Fraid it'll cost you fifteen
bod though there's a humbring for you. You can keep
the change me.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Thanks again now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Top of the evening to your gents.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So this is the Elms. Eh quite a bit of
land for such a.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Modest neighborhood to call it the Elms seem remarkably new group.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I cannot see an edm tree inside. So you see,
Livia the English have for imagination.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And you credit card? Are you just going to walk
up to the front door and knock?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Why not? The direct approach is often the most satisfactory. Oh,
you disappoint me.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I had hoped that perhaps you would adopt one of
the disguises in which you have so adapt I am told, well,
since it's unlikely with these people know me by sight,
that's hardly necessary. Is however, I trust that this little
problem may reward you with some colorful highlights before with row.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
No, it's got volver shots. They came from the house.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Have you have too late? Mister? Couldn't guys be murdered?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think not. You will observe that the next door
neighbor to the Elms was mowing his front lawn as
we drove up. He is still engaged in the same occupation. Obviously,
revolver shots attract little attention this way since.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The mon dieu.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
You mean that violence in sudden death are not common,
that they do not attractive at passing interns.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
No Ah, even the British are not as phlegmatic as that.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Then what is the answer to those shots?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Some member of this household is addicted to pistol practice.
The fact that a shooting target is nailed to the
back of that fence over there would further suppor the theory.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That's rather ominous in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, hit me out the front door. Let's keep our
wits about us anyway. Are you killing it one of
the Doctor Watson know this stethoscope.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'm afraid I was prepared for sickness when I left
the house today and not for crime.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I tour my nams. How about you miss only a
magnifying glass, I'm afraid, hardly a very lethal weapon. Yeah,
my friends and I were calling on this quitter.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Oh who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
My name is Sheelack Holmes, and these are my friends,
doctor Watson and Monsieur Levier. Expect I don't know. We
have read his advertisement in the Agony column of the
Times today and came down here at once. Are you
a relation of his.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I'm his niece.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
My name is Donas Stavisham, coming, don't.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You, miss Faversham?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I suppose to, yes, doctor, Miss stavish Oh, we had
three revolver shots as we were walking up the driveway.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
They he paved us quite a start, mademoiselle. We were
afraid that we might have arrived at the time of tragedy.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Indeed tragedy. My hobby is with bother shooting. I was
doing some target practice in the back garden.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You arrive shooting. Very interesting. I have found of myself
that I'm something of a marksman myself.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Oh really, perhaps we can have a match, won't.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You sit down your challenge and treats me in establishing?
But before I accepted, I should like to see mister
Quitter well.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Uncle George is paralyzed, you know, spend you any time
in a quil chair. I'm not at all sure he'll
see you.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well. At least you can ask him, can't you, Fabio.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
It is customer at this time of the day to
take a little nap. Perhaps tomorrow he's still awake. Some
men have come to see you, Uncle, salom me, gentlemen. Uncle,
this is mister Shella Combs, doctor Watson and monsieur miss.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Leia, Missy Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Day took you long enough to decipher my message and
get here, didn't it? Your brothers are much faster workers.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Me. What makes you say that, mister Cutter received this
telegram prior at eleven o'clock this morning? Really for yourself? Well,
suggest you can sult my brother Sherlock and it's it's
signed Microft Homes. Yes, mister Croton, my brother is a
much faster worker. Or shall we say that he suffers
from the unfortunate habit of early rising. He undoubtedly read
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the Agony column three hours before I did today.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I don't know about that, but I've been expecting you
all day. I imagine you know why I inserted that advertisement.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Well, I had the.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Impression that you were under some form of restraint, that
if you were in need of a rescue party, As it.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Were, rubbish, My advertisement was a piece of subtle bait.
The only person that could decided the message would obviously
be someone who knew the Baconian cipher.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That a logical deductions to Pulta.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You see, I'm convinced that any sensible man should be
that the so called Shakespearean plays were written by Sir
Francis Bacon, but I felt that he needed a clever
man to prove the fact. I'm sure that anyone who
was able to decipher my message was the man I needed.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And what did you take, mister Holmes to do the job?
I'm a rich man. Name your feet.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You need to say that you inveigled mister Holmes down
here just to do some research on the origin of
Shakespeare's work.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
You needn't look so shocked, Docter Botton. My uncle is
gofered to being a handsome thing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, what do your name? Is an interesting subject for research.
I can side that ignacious Donnelly and others have proved
almost gone out that William Shakespeare are strata and Aidan
did not write the place. But I greatly doubt that
Lord Bacon did. I made a vote my leisure in
later years to some investigation on the subject. But in
the Meanwhilenessir, and I'm afraid I'm much too busy to
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want to take such an assignment. Clease it up, show
the gentlemen out. Darlis right.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Too bad you had this long guy down here for nothing, Jeral.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I quite agree on him.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It would seemed to me that your uncle has a
distinct talent for political joking, mademoiselle.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Uncle uncle never made a joke in his life. Mister Holmes,
now that you're here, perhaps you like to induls a
little shooting map.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Thank you, Miss Faversham. But done as I told your
unclimb a busy man. Good evening to you, goodbye, gentlemen, Bye.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Homes old follow you're you're losing your touch. You'd never
made a blunder like this if I've still been with you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It is comforting for an aspiring detective like myself to
know that the glatial occurrence is fallible.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Then am I to assume that I must continue the
case alone?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Oh? You mean continue the case there is? There isn't one,
so there's in no danger.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He's in desperate danger. I'm only afraid I may be
too late to say that what we have just spoken
to the man? Oh no, did neither of you notice
the traces of fresh alone on the boots of that
supposedly paralyzed man. Gentlemen, I fear the agony column has
led us to murder.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
a second time enough for me to mention that any
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If you're having a roast or chops, or any kind
of meat or meat dish, then, by all means, sir,
Petrie California Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is a hearty, full flavored
red wine, one of the most delicious red wines.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You ever poured from a bottle.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When I get a bottle of each Petri Burgundy and
Petri So Turned, then no matter what you have for dinner,
you'll surely have the right wine, a Petri Wine.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, doctor, why did you have to break off your
story there?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, I had to break it off some worms to Bartolo.
That seemed to be the most exciting spot.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It certainly was. I was convinced that the Great Show
I Coms had been fooled for once. What happened next, well,
but I need this to remark.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
We did not get into a cab and go back
to London. But me pick up the story at the
same place that I broke it off.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
As Holmes said, gentlemen, I felt the agony column has
led us to murder.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Murder.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
There was fresh earth on the soldier of his boots,
you say, distinct traces proving that the man in the
wheelchair was not paralyzed.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
That man, whoever he is, was impersonating Quilt to put
us off the track, and their ill quilt only have
been killed.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I'm afraid, so let's stop here. Fra Amoma wait while
we make our plans. Miss Edge will hide us from
the house in case they're watching from the windows. Now,
this isn't a hard picture to reconstruct. It undoubtedly is
or was a paralyzed Baconian scholar named Qultter. He managed
to smuggle out that ingenious tea for help, but Microft's
unfortunate telegram gave the game away.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Mm hmmm, I see it now, And the people in
there holding prisoner forced him to reveal what he has done.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
What they may have done to him. Heaven alone knows.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
One of the criminals, guessing from the telegram that I
might appear on the case posed as the crippled culta.
What's our next move? But that's singularly unattracted young ladies
killed Above. We misseearch the grounds as unobtrusively as we can.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's the girls.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
For what I can answer this question? Shout up. We
searched for signs of the freshly s termed earth of
a grave.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well we didn't find any traces in the poor devil's corpse,
Thank Heaven.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
No a great disappointment. Cheering you are very blood burst
into the beyond. Hello, May we all thoughtout trimming the
hedge over there? The gardener to a chapter may be
able to give us some information. Good eating to you,
eaving you gentlemen. You we fomis quicker that I do,
her that I do. If I worked, I've seldom seen
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a better kept up. Thank you, sir. I do pride
myself in my word. Where if you can help me,
you can't do if I can. So. Did you see
a telegraph by deliver a message here this morning?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That day?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Did sir? The boy came here about ten o'clock this morning?
I always keep in the front edge of the time,
and you've been working here ever since. Yes, sir, brought
my lunch with me today and ate it in the garden.
Has anyone entered or left the house since that telegram
was delivered? Nos her, no one except yourself. I see,
I see.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I suppose you occasionally run errands, mister guitter, not much
these days, sir. The poor old gentleman keeps his chair
in the house pretty much all the times.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I did run a message for him yesterday. Oh where
to well, sir? I was prooling the rose bushes under
his study windows when the window opens and his hand
comes out with a message. He told me to take
it to the village office of the Times, and to
tell him to print it just the way it was.
He looked kind of worried when he gave me the message,
and he he whispered to me, just as if he
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was afraid in his own house. I'm much obliged to you.
He has five shillings for your trouble. Oh thank you, sir, much.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Advice to you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm sure good evening, Good evening to you, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So that's how the.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Message was smuggled out, And no one has come to
the house or left it since that telegram was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
A little close. Of all, his body must still be
inside that house. We are going to search the house
yes we are, but we're not armed.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Do they sit there? They probably won't even let.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Us in, as they will. We have an infallible key
to entry a woman's vanity. Come on, oh so you
came there.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I thought you wouldn't be able to resist my challenge
to a crystold establish him.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We had difficulty in finding a cab and decided to
take a train back to London. Nows Wait, so I well,
I thought i'd accept your challenge.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Come in, we'll go into the back garden. Thank you,
don't talk loudly. I think uncle's asleep in the next room.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Here, all right, uncle this way, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
If your uncle wants to sleep, he was a punished Oh.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well he's used to that doctor. Here we are. This
is the fifty yard range. Mister Holmes, three shots, bet
advocate scr wins. I'm stillard a bit.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You name the stake, name takes Miss Favershaman. Certainly you
take the first three shots.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, and it's just checked that it's loaded.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Yes, six bullets. All right, here I go, brother, Miss
Fabisham and twiners.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I can do better.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You'll turn the tones.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Jarres, Oh these man, friend of mine, I'll introduce you
a minute, Jeffrey, but a bit of a letch at
the moment you're turning to him.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Hey, Barba, please here you are. Thank you you you're
sure you know how to handle it with Albo quite sure? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And why are you pointing it at me?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Because I want you to raise your hands above your head?
You too, whatever your name is, Doris, who are these men?
Put up your hands. I shan't hesitate to shoot. I
assure you come on, I said, what in heaven names
you think you're up to? Finding out what became of
the real mister Quilt? Search the man? What's here? Go
to the house? Were you in searching?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yes, but of course an eldest man had a bulb.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
On his hip keeping covered with it. Now that who
are you? From your resemblance to the men in the
wheelchair that we saw earlier, I should say that you're
a number of the same family.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
We're both relatives and mister Quilts.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My name is Davis On from the Australian branch of
the realities. Yes, and Dougtless who stood to inherit his
estate in the event of Culta's death. You moved in
on this defenseless old man terrorized him and lived off
him and finally found it necessary to destroy him.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
You're talking absolutely, he's.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Showing the truth and you know it. I can tell
by your.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Expressions or bagging of the house further. You'll come on
and keep your hands raised, all right, that's it. Come
on either way into the study and then posing as
mister Cutter is still there. We heard him call out
as we came him.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, we might as well confront the three of them together.
He's still seated in the chair. He seems to be asleep.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Here. Did you find anything another trace of the missing men?
Miss arms there is? What did you do with mister Quilter?
I didn't do anything with him. He's a good line
to ask.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
We know that that man's an impostor.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is a fantastic situation. Nobody has left this house
since the telegram arrived, and nobody has come to it
and get mister Quilter is Spanish?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Lord? How when you sleep through all this talk you
think you've been drugged?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, we are idiots. You were unquestionably the most promising
detective in France, and some people have been kinder not
to grunt me a similar status in England's. And yet
my old friend Watson has just solved the case.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Oh nothing, too happy to well solved it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How listen to the breathing of that man in a chair.
He's been drugged. There sets the real mister Quilt. It
persecuted victim who sent her cipher message for help. The
man we spoke too earlier was you, mister Davies, impersonating
Quilt and you'd receive this. You took up your disguise,
adopted an Australian accent and then hid your drug victim
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by placing him in his own wheelchair, knowing that would
be the last place we look for him, and they
would have kept him here until we had gone, and
then murdered him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
What a devilish plot.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, what have you got to say to yourselves?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
A Jetty's idea love mine. I didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
What's a joy? Lie? You were in this as much
as I.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh this is splendid. So this is splendid. Please continue
the argument. It'll make interest evidence in court.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You can't take I said you court.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Of course you can't. Watch the charge quote is still
alive with me. When mister Cutter revives under doctor Watson's administrations.
You will be charged, I have no doubt with attempted murder, abductions, igstration, juriss,
and probably several other accounts. Mister Bean, if you will
find us at cab, you'll take these miscreants to Scrutsland's yard.
Our work is done well, doctor. That was a fine story. Eric,
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what are you fidgeting for?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
We I'm expecting your guest. I thought I heard him
yourself that there's a front door.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I guess you're being as mysterious as mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You see I ah, come in talk to Watson. How
are you all rested?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Gregod, it's great to see you again, mister meet my friend.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Mister Gregory hood.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Not the Gregory hood, mister Bartell. I like the way
you say that.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yes, mister Butell, this is the Gregory hood.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Mister Bartell. If you listen to doctor Watson, he'll lead
you to believe I'm much more important than I am.
I'm quite a simple person. Really. I'm kind to dogs,
just love little children, and always help old ladies cross
the street. I also know how to make a fire
by rubbing two sticks together.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
It is unlike my old friend Holmes.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You pretend to over a little about criminals and crime,
and yet you're one of America's outstanding criminologists.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So I've heard a hobby, mister Bartell, A hobby. My
real business is importing headquarters San Francisco. I need any
old masters. Perhaps I can sell you a nice piece
of jade, or which you'd rather have a bit of
old Balinese culty. Come a wait a minute, this is
all a little too fast for you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Will learn that Gregory is a little too fast for everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
But mister Bartell, I'm sure you'll get to know mister
Hood a good eel better. You See, as I've told you,
I've always wanted to take a trip back to England,
and now I have a chance to do so.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But Doctor, when I see you again, what about story? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I shall be back in the fall.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But meanwhile, I've asked mister Gregory Hood to get together
with you at this time every week and tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Some of his experience, which of course makes me feel
very important.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Mister Hood, as you know, has been involved in many
famous cases dealing in crime.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
His important business.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And his hearty criminology at a strange combination. I learned
that he keeps a diary of these cases, and it's
a fascinating book, a casebook of gregory Hood.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
The Case Book of Gregory Hood sounds intriguing, intriguing it
certainly is. Thank you well, then I can tell all
our friends be sure to listen next week at the
same time, and every Monday night through the summer to
the Case Book of Gregory Hood. The Night shall I
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Colme's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher
and were suggested by an incident in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's story.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The Sign of Four music is by Dean Foster.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of Metro Golblan mayor
mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune
in again.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Next week, same time, same station.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartell saying good night for the Petrie family.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System
Pet Tree Wine brings you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures of
Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took time
to bring you good wine, invites you to listen to
doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared with
his old friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes. And I
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want to ask you something you know. Every now and then,
I've told you about the good old American custom of
serving a glass of sherry before dinner, particularly Petrie California sherry.
And I wonder if you've tried that Petrie sherry. Really,
a glass of Petrie sherry is the best beginning a
good meal ever had. Petrie sherry is clear, fragrant, and
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truly delicious. It's a wonderful wine whose flavor is the
essence of luscious sun ripened grapes. And Petrie makes two
kinds of sherry wine, a regular sherry and Petree pale dry.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
If you don't know which you prefer, try them both.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Don't buy one, buy two, but remember always buy Petrie
because Petree wine is always good wine. Well, I'm sure
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doctor Watson is ready for us. Let's go in and
join him, shall.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We evening, mister.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Qui dogs saying very pleased with themselves tonight did they
have a good day's the three of us did?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
My boy the patio, I took.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A seven iron and some old golf poles on the
beach this afternoon and proved my game. I'm thinking the
dogs had a great time chasing the golf poles. On
the way home, the little rascals had a furious battle
with an elderly Pelican, so the day was complete.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'll have to join you on one of your afternoons, Trollers,
Doctor and the dog seem to have so much fun
for we got your comfort, mister Bartell.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well drap your usual churn. I'll get on with tonight Sherlock.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Holmes Adventure from the Hens who gave us last week.
I guess the Frenchman played a prominent part in the story.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, indeed he did, mister Bartell.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
His name was France fir Leavilla. He was a detective
of some notes in his own country the time my
story begins, it was in eighteen hundred and eighty.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Nine, to meet zech Navilla come.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Over to London to discuss with Holmes the difficulties of
translating some of his monographs into the French language. At
this particular time, I was in the early days of
my marriage, mister Bartell. Of this fact, combined with the
busy factice, meant that I saw very little of my
old friend.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He must have missed you, Daker, you do well.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of course he'd admit the fact. But Herbert didn't get
home with my story.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
One troubtless June afternoon, I found myself in the neighborhood
of Baker Street, and I couldn't persist paying a visit
to Holmes.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Missus Hudson was out, but having retained my old letchke,
I let myself in and mounted the familiar stairs. It
gave me a strange feeling as I raised my hand
to knock on what once had been my own living
room door. An aaren, Hello, Oh, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
How very nice.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's great to see you at homes. I'm sorry I
interrupted you. I didn't know that you had.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Company now at all. My dear fellow were delighted. Aunt.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
This is a how you do chantchier. I wouldn't wish
to meet the so charming doctor Watson. Holmes has told
me a great deal about you.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That suit she Watson expended old gained a little weight, haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You, Oh, there's a few pounds away.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Don't you You sure that I'm not interrupting you in
some important discussion?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no, shut up.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
There we were having a good natured argument on the
relative abilities of the French criminal compared to the English
your support.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Parts, Levi, I is convinced that the English criminal is
a very dull dog.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Indeed, well, we've met far from dull ones that time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I assure you, Monsieur Levia, Ah, the exceptions rather than
the whole life here moshell lit and aunt Olivia. I
believe me, dear friend, that I will yield to no
one in my admiration of your knowledge and skill. That
is why I wish I could persuade you to practice
in Paris. Ah, there you would find opponents really worthy
of your Still, what can happen to interest you in
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this land of grave frogs, boiled potatoes and pots of tea?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're you're not the flat number of insula I offense,
my friend?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Will you say the English criminal is dull?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Perhaps if you were to read a published story of
man called a Study in scarlet, you think differently. It
tells a very exciting adventure.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
That Holmes and I head.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I have read it, my friend.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
An extremely gripping story. But surely you will admit that
the was essentially of a Melton.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Ah, he's right, but he's perfect, a right, Jomy. What
can I do to vindicate the dishonor of the London criminal?
Let me see? Oh, yes, yes, of course, a copy
of Today's Times. That's fine. I shall introduce you to
a section known as the agony column. Now, oh, yes,
here we are. This should convince you of the color
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and variety of English life. The agony column Mechan's most painful.
What is it for.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
A personal columns?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Lable to contain anything from a lover's frantic appeal to
his lady.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Love to a ransom note.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
In my profession, I've frequently found it an invaluable medium
for contacting the underworld. Yes, now here we are, Yes, nothing, Jemmy,
Oh dear, No, today's column seems rather uninspired. I'm afraid
may I examine it?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Of course, if the lady who helped my little boy
across the road at the corner of Threadwell Street and
Hyauburn last Wednesday at four, or we'll get in touch
with Box eight four five. She will learn of something
to her advantage that we can be more colorful than that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Emparies my friendness. I think we can do better than
that too.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, printer must have been half asleep, but he set
up the type for this adverllisement.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Will any gentlemen interested in discussing cryptography and cipher writing
please communicate with box x ql six nine six.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
The time Why I failed to find this message anymore
stelling than before?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
She didn't want to notice the execrable printing. Dunchem did
I do?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
It is all mixed up the first world will It
starts with the capital W and the capital I the
second world, and he starts with a small A and
then has a capital N and y. It is a
shocking example of typogun.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And when it a.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Curtain of paper noted for its excellence in typesetting, man
realizes that this is no mistake. This is underbeed their
code message.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Hawk Now, my friend, I defy even you to make
a mystery out of the printer's negative Accept.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your challenge, my deal of beyond if you recall the
Baconian bilateral cipher depends upon the use of two sizes
of type. If we group the letters in units of five,
the arrangements of small and capital letters within the groups
should give us the message. Now, let's see two capitals
followed by three small gives us the letter H, and
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then two capitals one small, two more that gives us EH.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I still think you're trying to make an adventure out
of a mere printing aims.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No mere printing accident could sell readily fall into one
of the great traditional ciphers. Now let's see this message
read E help help Q two small QUI culta help,
cultera l L two small and large elms help culta
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elms thirty is yes, pent help cultera elms pence help
quiltera elms pend. What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Presumably a man named Quilta who lives at a house
called the Elms in the village of Penge.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Needs help ah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I see it now, a helpless victim help prisoner is
more deserved this message as a as a harmless person,
and restriction instructions that it be printed on this out form.
He knows that the amateurs of cryptography to whom it
is addressed will decipher this cultural help hewell.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Monsieur Villa, you seem ready to grant the adventure can
exist in London.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
After all, the advantage, my dear Watson, of a more
mercurial temperament than the Englishman possessed well and beyond what
about it? So we set off for Pens and rescue
the junior ingenious mister Quilter from what about dire fate
awaits him in the elms. I am all in patience,
s spend it, Watson. I suppose you are too busy
to join us. Too busy well, I mean your practice.
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I'm sure that you have patience will.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Matter of fact, I have two further visits to make today,
one to a pepri old miser who has gout, another
to a wealthy society woman who has a due to
attack of hat Hope Condria they call it, but the
places from.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
The home both from I'm coming with your holmes if
you want me, Barbro.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Wasn't then grab your hat and coat. The game's a
foot here you are, gents, the helms Pin. Nice afternoon
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for a drive, wasn't it? Fraid it'll cost you fifteen
bod though there's a humbring for you. You can keep
the change me.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Thanks again now.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Top of the evening to your gents.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So this is the Elms. Eh quite a bit of
land for such a.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Modest neighborhood to call it the Elms seem remarkably new group.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I cannot see an edm tree inside. So you see,
Livia the English have for imagination.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And you credit card? Are you just going to walk
up to the front door and knock?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Why not? The direct approach is often the most satisfactory. Oh,
you disappoint me.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I had hoped that perhaps you would adopt one of
the disguises in which you have so adapt I am told, well,
since it's unlikely with these people know me by sight,
that's hardly necessary. Is however, I trust that this little
problem may reward you with some colorful highlights before with row.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
No, it's got volver shots. They came from the house.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Have you have too late? Mister? Couldn't guys be murdered?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think not. You will observe that the next door
neighbor to the Elms was mowing his front lawn as
we drove up. He is still engaged in the same occupation. Obviously,
revolver shots attract little attention this way since.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The mon dieu.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
You mean that violence in sudden death are not common,
that they do not attractive at passing interns.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
No Ah, even the British are not as phlegmatic as that.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Then what is the answer to those shots?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Some member of this household is addicted to pistol practice.
The fact that a shooting target is nailed to the
back of that fence over there would further suppor the theory.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That's rather ominous in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Well, hit me out the front door. Let's keep our
wits about us anyway. Are you killing it one of
the Doctor Watson know this stethoscope.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I'm afraid I was prepared for sickness when I left
the house today and not for crime.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I tour my nams. How about you miss only a
magnifying glass, I'm afraid, hardly a very lethal weapon. Yeah,
my friends and I were calling on this quitter.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Oh who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
My name is Sheelack Holmes, and these are my friends,
doctor Watson and Monsieur Levier. Expect I don't know. We
have read his advertisement in the Agony column of the
Times today and came down here at once. Are you
a relation of his.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I'm his niece.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
My name is Donas Stavisham, coming, don't.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You, miss Faversham?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
I suppose to, yes, doctor, Miss stavish Oh, we had
three revolver shots as we were walking up the driveway.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
They he paved us quite a start, mademoiselle. We were
afraid that we might have arrived at the time of tragedy.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Indeed tragedy. My hobby is with bother shooting. I was
doing some target practice in the back garden.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You arrive shooting. Very interesting. I have found of myself
that I'm something of a marksman myself.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Oh really, perhaps we can have a match, won't.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You sit down your challenge and treats me in establishing?
But before I accepted, I should like to see mister
Quitter well.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Uncle George is paralyzed, you know, spend you any time
in a quil chair. I'm not at all sure he'll
see you.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well. At least you can ask him, can't you, Fabio.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
It is customer at this time of the day to
take a little nap. Perhaps tomorrow he's still awake. Some
men have come to see you, Uncle, salom me, gentlemen. Uncle,
this is mister Shella Combs, doctor Watson and monsieur miss.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Leia, Missy Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Day took you long enough to decipher my message and
get here, didn't it? Your brothers are much faster workers.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Me. What makes you say that, mister Cutter received this
telegram prior at eleven o'clock this morning? Really for yourself? Well,
suggest you can sult my brother Sherlock and it's it's
signed Microft Homes. Yes, mister Croton, my brother is a
much faster worker. Or shall we say that he suffers
from the unfortunate habit of early rising. He undoubtedly read
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the Agony column three hours before I did today.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I don't know about that, but I've been expecting you
all day. I imagine you know why I inserted that advertisement.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Well, I had the.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Impression that you were under some form of restraint, that
if you were in need of a rescue party, As it.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Were, rubbish, My advertisement was a piece of subtle bait.
The only person that could decided the message would obviously
be someone who knew the Baconian cipher.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That a logical deductions to Pulta.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You see, I'm convinced that any sensible man should be
that the so called Shakespearean plays were written by Sir
Francis Bacon, but I felt that he needed a clever
man to prove the fact. I'm sure that anyone who
was able to decipher my message was the man I needed.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And what did you take, mister Holmes to do the job?
I'm a rich man. Name your feet.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You need to say that you inveigled mister Holmes down
here just to do some research on the origin of
Shakespeare's work.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
You needn't look so shocked, Docter Botton. My uncle is
gofered to being a handsome thing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, what do your name? Is an interesting subject for research.
I can side that ignacious Donnelly and others have proved
almost gone out that William Shakespeare are strata and Aidan
did not write the place. But I greatly doubt that
Lord Bacon did. I made a vote my leisure in
later years to some investigation on the subject. But in
the Meanwhilenessir, and I'm afraid I'm much too busy to
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want to take such an assignment. Clease it up, show
the gentlemen out. Darlis right.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Too bad you had this long guy down here for nothing, Jeral.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I quite agree on him.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It would seemed to me that your uncle has a
distinct talent for political joking, mademoiselle.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Uncle uncle never made a joke in his life. Mister Holmes,
now that you're here, perhaps you like to induls a
little shooting map.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Thank you, Miss Faversham. But done as I told your
unclimb a busy man. Good evening to you, goodbye, gentlemen, Bye.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Homes old follow you're you're losing your touch. You'd never
made a blunder like this if I've still been with you.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It is comforting for an aspiring detective like myself to
know that the glatial occurrence is fallible.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Then am I to assume that I must continue the
case alone?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Oh? You mean continue the case there is? There isn't one,
so there's in no danger.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He's in desperate danger. I'm only afraid I may be
too late to say that what we have just spoken
to the man? Oh no, did neither of you notice
the traces of fresh alone on the boots of that
supposedly paralyzed man. Gentlemen, I fear the agony column has
led us to murder.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
a second time enough for me to mention that any
meal is a better meal when it's served with a
Petrie dinner wine. If you're having chicken or fish, use
Petri California So Turned. Petri So Turn is a subtle,
delicately flavored white wine that looks and tastes like captured sunshine.
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If you're having a roast or chops, or any kind
of meat or meat dish, then, by all means, sir,
Petrie California Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is a hearty, full flavored
red wine, one of the most delicious red wines.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You ever poured from a bottle.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When I get a bottle of each Petri Burgundy and
Petri So Turned, then no matter what you have for dinner,
you'll surely have the right wine, a Petri Wine.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, doctor, why did you have to break off your
story there?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, I had to break it off some worms to Bartolo.
That seemed to be the most exciting spot.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
It certainly was. I was convinced that the Great Show
I Coms had been fooled for once. What happened next, well,
but I need this to remark.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
We did not get into a cab and go back
to London. But me pick up the story at the
same place that I broke it off.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
As Holmes said, gentlemen, I felt the agony column has
led us to murder.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Murder.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
There was fresh earth on the soldier of his boots,
you say, distinct traces proving that the man in the
wheelchair was not paralyzed.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
That man, whoever he is, was impersonating Quilt to put
us off the track, and their ill quilt only have
been killed.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I'm afraid, so let's stop here. Fra Amoma wait while
we make our plans. Miss Edge will hide us from
the house in case they're watching from the windows. Now,
this isn't a hard picture to reconstruct. It undoubtedly is
or was a paralyzed Baconian scholar named Qultter. He managed
to smuggle out that ingenious tea for help, but Microft's
unfortunate telegram gave the game away.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Mm hmmm, I see it now, And the people in
there holding prisoner forced him to reveal what he has done.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
What they may have done to him. Heaven alone knows.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
One of the criminals, guessing from the telegram that I
might appear on the case posed as the crippled culta.
What's our next move? But that's singularly unattracted young ladies
killed Above. We misseearch the grounds as unobtrusively as we can.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
That's the girls.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
For what I can answer this question? Shout up. We
searched for signs of the freshly s termed earth of
a grave.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well we didn't find any traces in the poor devil's corpse,
Thank Heaven.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
No a great disappointment. Cheering you are very blood burst
into the beyond. Hello, May we all thoughtout trimming the
hedge over there? The gardener to a chapter may be
able to give us some information. Good eating to you,
eaving you gentlemen. You we fomis quicker that I do,
her that I do. If I worked, I've seldom seen
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a better kept up. Thank you, sir. I do pride
myself in my word. Where if you can help me,
you can't do if I can. So. Did you see
a telegraph by deliver a message here this morning?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That day?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Did sir? The boy came here about ten o'clock this morning?
I always keep in the front edge of the time,
and you've been working here ever since. Yes, sir, brought
my lunch with me today and ate it in the garden.
Has anyone entered or left the house since that telegram
was delivered? Nos her, no one except yourself. I see,
I see.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I suppose you occasionally run errands, mister guitter, not much
these days, sir. The poor old gentleman keeps his chair
in the house pretty much all the times.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I did run a message for him yesterday. Oh where
to well, sir? I was prooling the rose bushes under
his study windows when the window opens and his hand
comes out with a message. He told me to take
it to the village office of the Times, and to
tell him to print it just the way it was.
He looked kind of worried when he gave me the message,
and he he whispered to me, just as if he
(19:55):
was afraid in his own house. I'm much obliged to you.
He has five shillings for your trouble. Oh thank you, sir, much.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Advice to you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm sure good evening, Good evening to you, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So that's how the.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Message was smuggled out, And no one has come to
the house or left it since that telegram was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
A little close. Of all, his body must still be
inside that house. We are going to search the house
yes we are, but we're not armed.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Do they sit there? They probably won't even let.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Us in, as they will. We have an infallible key
to entry a woman's vanity. Come on, oh so you
came there.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
I thought you wouldn't be able to resist my challenge
to a crystold establish him.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We had difficulty in finding a cab and decided to
take a train back to London. Nows Wait, so I well,
I thought i'd accept your challenge.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Come in, we'll go into the back garden. Thank you,
don't talk loudly. I think uncle's asleep in the next room.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Here, all right, uncle this way, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
If your uncle wants to sleep, he was a punished Oh.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Well he's used to that doctor. Here we are. This
is the fifty yard range. Mister Holmes, three shots, bet
advocate scr wins. I'm stillard a bit.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You name the stake, name takes Miss Favershaman. Certainly you
take the first three shots.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, and it's just checked that it's loaded.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Yes, six bullets. All right, here I go, brother, Miss
Fabisham and twiners.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I can do better.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You'll turn the tones.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Jarres, Oh these man, friend of mine, I'll introduce you
a minute, Jeffrey, but a bit of a letch at
the moment you're turning to him.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Hey, Barba, please here you are. Thank you you you're
sure you know how to handle it with Albo quite sure? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
And why are you pointing it at me?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Because I want you to raise your hands above your head?
You too, whatever your name is, Doris, who are these men?
Put up your hands. I shan't hesitate to shoot. I
assure you come on, I said, what in heaven names
you think you're up to? Finding out what became of
the real mister Quilt? Search the man? What's here? Go
to the house? Were you in searching?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Yes, but of course an eldest man had a bulb.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
On his hip keeping covered with it. Now that who
are you? From your resemblance to the men in the
wheelchair that we saw earlier, I should say that you're
a number of the same family.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
We're both relatives and mister Quilts.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My name is Davis On from the Australian branch of
the realities. Yes, and Dougtless who stood to inherit his
estate in the event of Culta's death. You moved in
on this defenseless old man terrorized him and lived off
him and finally found it necessary to destroy him.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
You're talking absolutely, he's.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Showing the truth and you know it. I can tell
by your.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Expressions or bagging of the house further. You'll come on
and keep your hands raised, all right, that's it. Come
on either way into the study and then posing as
mister Cutter is still there. We heard him call out
as we came him.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, we might as well confront the three of them together.
He's still seated in the chair. He seems to be asleep.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Here. Did you find anything another trace of the missing men?
Miss arms there is? What did you do with mister Quilter?
I didn't do anything with him. He's a good line
to ask.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
We know that that man's an impostor.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This is a fantastic situation. Nobody has left this house
since the telegram arrived, and nobody has come to it
and get mister Quilter is Spanish?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Lord? How when you sleep through all this talk you
think you've been drugged?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, we are idiots. You were unquestionably the most promising
detective in France, and some people have been kinder not
to grunt me a similar status in England's. And yet
my old friend Watson has just solved the case.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Oh nothing, too happy to well solved it.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
How listen to the breathing of that man in a chair.
He's been drugged. There sets the real mister Quilt. It
persecuted victim who sent her cipher message for help. The
man we spoke too earlier was you, mister Davies, impersonating
Quilt and you'd receive this. You took up your disguise,
adopted an Australian accent and then hid your drug victim
(24:38):
by placing him in his own wheelchair, knowing that would
be the last place we look for him, and they
would have kept him here until we had gone, and
then murdered him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
What a devilish plot.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, what have you got to say to yourselves?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
A Jetty's idea love mine. I didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
What's a joy? Lie? You were in this as much
as I.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh this is splendid. So this is splendid. Please continue
the argument. It'll make interest evidence in court.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You can't take I said you court.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Of course you can't. Watch the charge quote is still
alive with me. When mister Cutter revives under doctor Watson's administrations.
You will be charged, I have no doubt with attempted murder, abductions, igstration, juriss,
and probably several other accounts. Mister Bean, if you will
find us at cab, you'll take these miscreants to Scrutsland's yard.
Our work is done well, doctor. That was a fine story. Eric,
(25:37):
what are you fidgeting for?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
We I'm expecting your guest. I thought I heard him
yourself that there's a front door.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I guess you're being as mysterious as mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You see I ah, come in talk to Watson. How
are you all rested?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Gregod, it's great to see you again, mister meet my friend.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Mister Gregory hood.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Not the Gregory hood, mister Bartell. I like the way
you say that.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yes, mister Butell, this is the Gregory hood.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Mister Bartell. If you listen to doctor Watson, he'll lead
you to believe I'm much more important than I am.
I'm quite a simple person. Really. I'm kind to dogs,
just love little children, and always help old ladies cross
the street. I also know how to make a fire
by rubbing two sticks together.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
It is unlike my old friend Holmes.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You pretend to over a little about criminals and crime,
and yet you're one of America's outstanding criminologists.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So I've heard a hobby, mister Bartell, A hobby. My
real business is importing headquarters San Francisco. I need any
old masters. Perhaps I can sell you a nice piece
of jade, or which you'd rather have a bit of
old Balinese culty. Come a wait a minute, this is
all a little too fast for you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Will learn that Gregory is a little too fast for everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
But mister Bartell, I'm sure you'll get to know mister
Hood a good eel better. You See, as I've told you,
I've always wanted to take a trip back to England,
and now I have a chance to do so.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But Doctor, when I see you again, what about story? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I shall be back in the fall.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But meanwhile, I've asked mister Gregory Hood to get together
with you at this time every week and tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Some of his experience, which of course makes me feel
very important.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Mister Hood, as you know, has been involved in many
famous cases dealing in crime.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
His important business.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And his hearty criminology at a strange combination. I learned
that he keeps a diary of these cases, and it's
a fascinating book, a casebook of gregory Hood.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
The Case Book of Gregory Hood sounds intriguing, intriguing it
certainly is. Thank you well, then I can tell all
our friends be sure to listen next week at the
same time, and every Monday night through the summer to
the Case Book of Gregory Hood. The Night shall I
(27:59):
Colme's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher
and were suggested by an incident in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's story.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The Sign of Four music is by Dean Foster.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of Metro Golblan mayor
mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune
in again.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Next week, same time, same station.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartell saying good night for the Petrie family.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System
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