October 7, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh you are, mister bo good evening.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh excuse me, doctor Watson. I didn't know that you
had company.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
Hit mestery. Buto, this is my friend, missus Campbell.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
How do you do, missus Campbell?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How do you?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Miss Campbell is a very old friend of mine from England,
and when she called on me today, I've persuaded it
to stay dinner and then join us in this little
session of storytelling.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You see, mister.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Bartell, she's really what you might call the star the
Sherlock Holmes Adventure that I'm going to tell you tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh come now, Doster Watson. I actually played a very
small part of the story. In any case, I was
much too young at the time to know what was
really going on.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Say this is a great idea, doctor, One of the
characters out of your fabulous past. Here in California in
nineteen hundred, and forty six and helps tell her own story.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh no, mister Bartell, I know storyteller. That's the doctor's department.
I'll just listen.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll set the scene.
But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
In any case, my.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Memory isn't to tear on some of the early points
in connection with the case.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You will have to help me out, hope with your
top do millions of listeners on the radio. I'd be
terrified to speak over the air.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
We're on the air now, missus Campbell.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Oh oh we not are we?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, dear Anna, don't listen to If they're kind enough
to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll.
The setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And not until my dear, the captain going up and
the first scene belongs to you, supposing you said it
for us.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well, ah, I'll try. We were living on the Sussex Downs. Also,
mister Bartel at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning.
My father, Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but
my mother kept up the estate with the manager, Miss
hough Tanner. I was away at school most of the year,
of course, but the happiest times of my childhood was
spent during those long summer months in Sussex. I lived
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in a small world, knowing only a few people, and
loving all of them, or almost all. First of all,
there was mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman
in the world, and the sweetest. I remember she gave
me a puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name he
was Dusty, and he was so sweet. I talked to
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Mother about him one day. I must have sounded terribly young.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
a lovely puppy.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And you gave him to me. You love him, Cynthia.
I know that, but I've been feeding him. That's your job, darling.
It's good for grown up people to have responsibility.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I I'll feed him so far hip burns.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Then there was the estate manager, you Tenna, such a
pleasant man and so willing to tell a twelve year
old all the things that a twelve year old has to.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Know are die.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
He'd only broken his.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Leg, Cynthia, Horses aren't like human feets, their legs board men.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
I think of a horse that couldn't frisk and run
and gallop across towns.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
We're actually being kind to him, honest to be, asked
him good.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And then there was very King, the painter who lived
on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
and really see him.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
No, no, no, Cynthia, that Sansett isn't red.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's gold and rushed and the water child, look at.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
It, it's almost rose in this light, rose flicked with cobwebs.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Think shell blue, don't you, darling? A Santa's never just
one color?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Still try and remember that, would you.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
Speaker 10 (05:33):
Uh, Cynthia, I am going to give you a half
a crown for being a very good at a girl.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Now tell me what will you do with it?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No, no, my dear, this is your own money.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You put it in the savings.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Account at the post office, and it would make more
money for you.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
Always remember, my dear, take care of the pennies, and
the pounds will take.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
the things that aren't in books.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Always remember my bunny.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But it's good luck.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
To touch the hump of a hunchwilt.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
But the purso be Aldiva himself will be upon ye
if you look at the slipper, save the moon through
the glass.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And then the strangest and most wonderful of all was
the lean, middle aged man with a sharp face, and
the Beannut, whom I meet one day on the downs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Good afternoon, young lady, Good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I'm Cynthia Barnie, one of his homes. Why are you
carrying that net you're looking for?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Back?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Flat Popapo knows Ynthia.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm a bee farmer, beef farmer.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Oh that sounds funny, how your farm bee?
Speaker 10 (06:37):
Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Isn't a doll's?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
My mascot was given to be by Frank King, a painter.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
He made it for me.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
He made it to look as much like me as possible.
I call her me.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's remarkable likeness.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
See the hair that's clippings off my hair, and the
nails though, the clippings from my own nails. She's really
mean that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Your un nailed hair, and the dog isn't exact replico
of you. I don't like it, Cynthia.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
I remember my dear my name when you were it's
a Shellack Holmes and I live at the Bee Farm
and if anything unusual happened, that come to me at once.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You didn't understand why he was so worried about.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
The doll, No, but I remembered what he said about
coming to him if anything unusual happened.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yes, mister Boutell, and we did a very few days.
But at this point I think doctor Watson should take
over the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really entered.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
In a really well.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I was staying with
Holmes lately afternoon, as I remember that you ran over
to the bee farm when I.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
First met you Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
A few moments before you arrived, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I, each of us with a couple of.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Tea, and our hands were seated on the verandah, gazing
out across the downs, discussing the mutas drength.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Watson, after a lifetime to git to the more flamboyant
aspects of everyday life, that now, in what is the
fast approaching twilight of my days, I find such peace
and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior of Fees.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I wonder what Marigati would have thought.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You talking as if you're an old daughter of night.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It you say what you like, and I don't think
that you will ever really be happy in retirement.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It us the danger, the excitement of the case the public.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Of what are you talking about? My work is ever
for the public a pieces?
Speaker 10 (08:32):
And what did the public, the great unobservant public, who
can hardly tell a weaver by his tooth dollar types
that are by his left fun care about the finer
shades of analysis or deduction In any case, Watson, I
chose a happy time.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To sink into oblivion.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
In comparative, every recent years, the criminal seems to have
lost all his originality and enterprise. My own little practice
when I gave it up, and seemed to be in
danger of developing into an agency for covering lost lead
pencils or giving advice to gaint theates from boarding schools.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Talking of young lady it is? Who's this little girl
running up to your driveway?
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Oh, great, Scott, it's a little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie. And
who wor chomming? Young neighbor of mine?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Mister Homes you told me to come to you. Something
unusual happened. It has something that's frightened me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, no, said down, my dear. This is my old friend,
doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh how do you do, Cintia?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Ah, Centitia? What has frightened?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
For? It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Through the hot Great Scott, it darl it's an exact
repercover with a penknife passed into it.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Gracious way, when did you find your your mascot like this.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Just a tea.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Ronnie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
went up to my room, hasan pour me on the bed.
I remembered what you told me about anything unusual, and
so I came over here as fast.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
As I could. I'm glad that you did.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
She was still talking to the gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You worry about you.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
When she discovers your disappearance, I will go over and
talk to her at once. Cynthia, my dear, Yes, mister Holmes,
who was a gentleman calling on your mother?
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Well, the wit, mister Tanner, he's the man who looks
after the estate. The money, mister King.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Mister King is the man who made this darle Eh.
Now who else was there?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Mister Town he's.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
A businessman from London that's staying with money.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
And they were all present in your house when you
found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
what's no chap?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You're so?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother at once. I
want Cynthia to take care with you. Got her old
chap as you would life, missus Barning. I know I'm
seen like an intrusive neighbor, but possibly you've heard of me.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
My name is Holmes.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Sherlock comes well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Please sit down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thank you? You are guests have left?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
But how did you know I had guests? I know
you're a great to take it.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
You know, your charming little daughter, Cynthia came over to
see me half now, she told.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Me, so that's where she went? Did she come back quickly?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
No, missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained
at my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson
will look after her. I am afraid she may be
in danger.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Do you know?
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Your daughter's dull one, fashioned in her own likeness and
with her own hair and nails.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Of course, Franking nade it for her.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
While you were achieve This afternoon, your daughter found the
doll lying on her bed with a pen knife stuck
through its heart.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
It's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
be in any danger because of it, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Missus Banning, Certain practitioners of magic.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Believe that if a doll like effigy is made of
a human being and the effergy is then mutilated, that
a similar fate will befall the living original.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
That, mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
in it, not.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
In the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Banning.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. No, it may be
more than a possiblity of and when these magical means fail,
they will turn to more direct methods.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
But who could possibly want her death?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You were?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You have not remarried, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
to ask as child Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If then, anyone wishing to marry you might feel that
Cynthia stood in the way. But that's absurd but logical,
Missus Brownie. Do you mind if I ask you a
very personal question?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
With Cynthia's safety at stake? You may ask any question.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Are any of the three men who were present at
tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, I please be completely honest, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
At different times they they've all asked me to marry them.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
this pen knife before? It was the one unstuck through
the doll's heart.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I don't think I've ever seen it before.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
One final question, anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a knowledge
of the practice of magic?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Might?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh who? Might she be?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
downs near here. She brews, weird concoctions with her love
filters and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
A suitable companion for your daughter, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I know it's, mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I like to talk to this woman. And where does
she live?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
He used her as a model.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Thank King the Painter.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Yes, he lives in the village, and ifall call on
him at once and persuade him to accompany it. We
must find that wise woman, and I hope save your
child from magic, magic, impossible murder.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Much further, mis king to only a few more yards,
mister Holmes, I look cottages just behind the trees there.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Broken down place.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Poor old girl.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
There's only a few pennies to her name. Missus Ranning
was telling me that you'll use this old woman model. Yes,
she was a fascinating subject.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I painted her.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
She was mixing up some devil concoction of herbs and spices.
I had her standing over a smoking coldron with the
firelight playing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
On her was who was spite?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
The factor?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Hasn't?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Must have been the subject of witchcraft, appeals to his king. Well,
I don't know anything about it, which that's just. But
she was such a wonderful subject for Payton. Here we are.
I'm knock on the door and I will take the
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liberty of going in. Shine, I don't why not sh
What is it? This came from that room? Someone is here?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Come on, look at her, Look at her head.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Poor She's alive. She's in long for this world? Can
you hear me? Yeah? Let me lift you up a little?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Can you understand what I'm saying. Tell me who is
it that did this to you? She's too pagan speak
a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
were thanks. Now you write the name of the man
who did this to you.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
She's pushing the pencil away. How don't foosh she knows
how to write. She was trying to show you something,
mister Holmes. She's trying to crawl over.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
To the wall. Y, yeah, let me help you. It's
gonna be a hiding place of some kind. Look, she's
taking a brick out of the door. What is it,
Great scott money editable Jackdaws, A nest of pennies and
small silver and at least a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That was for the money book.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
She's picking up one of the silver coins.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
She's trying to get to you a sixpence. But what
a poor woman.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
She's dead just as she was trying to tell me
something I can't understand it. Don't lose sovereigns in this hovel.
And she she was showing you a silver sixpence as
she died. Mister Holmes, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Bert? Check on the young girl's safety?
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Well, I should like you to collect my mother's assembly
the other two men who were pressing the tea time
this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrived. I
shall belong but the police. I shall summon them as
a king when I have the murderer to offer them,
and I'm convinced, But that will be before the sun sets.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Tonight, we'll hear the.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
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Speaker 3 (16:58):
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guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played the most important part
in the story herself.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Home not nearly as important a part of that played
by mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
at the bee.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Fine, Well, first of all, he made short the little
girl was safe. Now he told me of finding the
dead woman and of his theories as to the killing.
I can almost hear it now, mister Bartels.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He said.
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
they knew the mother would never marry while the child
was alive.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And that's someone persuaded the old woman to.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
Do the job for her must bend outedly, and she,
believing in the pass of black magic, mutilate the doll,
firmly convinced that in so doing she was destroying the
young girl.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Profession doctor.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
woman was a million dulging in stupid for cloy, killed her,
realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous hindro.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
How do you suppose the account for the horde of
money golden sovereigns don't get if we found him a hoble,
No doubt it was the sum she.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Has already been paid for the murder that she was
going to commit.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
As she died, she.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Trying to give me the clue to our murder of
I selecting certain certain coin. Now in a posession she
had gold, silver, and copper. She chose a silver coin.
And yet I can't see it significance. I must confess
at the moment passed a lot. And yet before the
evening's over. I bet you look, you say, Watson, I said,
before the evening's over, I bet you lect, you, old fellow,
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that's the clue.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You bet me what on earth you're talking about? Homes,
I'll just say, you'll.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Just give me the answer to the whole problem.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Watson, I'm much obliged you stay here with you will
chap and look out Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A little while longer.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Within a very short time, I shall have her intended
destroyer under luck and key.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I've had the greatest difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen
that their presence was necessary.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
what happened, Yes, sir, well, uh, mister, I think it's.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Be a good idea to ney one what happened?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
How do you do, mister Poun?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh, how do you do, mister Holmes?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And look here? If there's some scandal now there is,
mister Pown.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Then I want my name kept out of it.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You here, I have a seat on the London stoppage.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Change that is comfortable for you.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yes, And the other gentleman, by the process of elimination,
must be mister Hugh Tanna, the Nana jel of you're
estate Missus Brown.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yes, I'm Hugh Candle.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
all about, I'm as straightforward men in all this mystery
is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerned us all.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What is it? Murdered?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The murder?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Good lord, who's been murdered? An old woman who lived
in the village.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Your daughter, Missus Barning referred to her as the wise woman,
mister King, and I found her to night in her
cottage on the downs, beaten to death.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Murdered.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Why that's shocking.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
But what's it got to do with I'll explained mister
carnd Each one of you, I believe would like to
marry Missus Browning. Her daughter Cynthia is an obstacle to
such a marriage. One of you decided to remove that
obstacle and engage the wise woman to carry out the plan.
Finding the woman clumsy and ineffective, you decided that she
was a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately,
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the poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the
crew to her murderer.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But how did she do that?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Mister Holmes? I thought you said that she died without speaking.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
She did, Missus Browning, But she gave me the clue
none the less, though I was shocking the slow and
spotting it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, what was the clue?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Into the opener. You were with me, mister King, as
she died. I shall let you tell them.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well. She was dying, unable to speak.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her, she couldn't write,
but she showed him a horde of copper and silver coins,
a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Sovereigns in a hovel like that.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Oh I see, she meant her murderer was the man
who had paid her, and with all that ill gotten wealth,
she died touching her silver sixpence.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well you is still doctor.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
See who the murderer is?
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Come along, gentlemen, you should know it as well as
you know your own names. Now, mister King mentioned that
there were a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Sovereign? Sovereign?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
King? You thank King were America.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
That's ridiculous. The old woman wasn't exactly a map to mind?
Why should she be so so indirect? And how much
is a sovereign worth a pound? And your name, my friend,
with a seat on the London stuck exchange, is pounds?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yet this is absolutely absurd.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I can prove that I've never even met the woman.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Well what is the answer, mister Holmes, I'm sure that
you know it.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
The answer is obvious, Missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
say that a chance remark.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Of Dr Watson's came to the clue. Oh no, look
here I stopped beating about the bush.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Holmes. What is the art?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Very simple?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Ones to pound with twelve golden sovereigns at hand? Sovereigns
that would suggest either the name of king or pound.
What coin did the dying woman select? A sixpence exactly,
a humble silver sixpence, and what is the common slang
word for a sixpence, a tan precisely, which tells us
that you, mister Hugh Tanna.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Killed the wise maidy try and coved, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All just trying al hus what happened.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
I found the mead road, Jeff, thanks to you mean
thanks to me well, I was thinking of a sixpence,
the coin the dead woman clutched in her hand, and
a sixpence when he said I bet you, I thought
of the much used expression bet youa tanner, and that
gave me the kill of the whole business. The dying
woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Was her murder, he confess to say before the police arrived.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Yes, after thank King, the artist had started to give
him something flashing he deserved.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh, I take no particular pride in the case Watson.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Without your Chancellor Mark, I might easily have overlooked this
obvious clue that the dying woman gave me. As I
said before, Oh, Chap, I should not attempt to emerge
from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's obvious, but
my reflexes are shockingly slow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Publish. The police would never have solved.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
All My dear Watson, when you compare me.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
With the police, I realized that my retirement should be permanent.
And by the way, where is Cynthia?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I arranged with your house you preferred to heaven early supper.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Some kippers of folks they got too a piece of
that quick.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Attack we had last night for a twelve year old girl.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
accuse you of being a potential murderer. Comnor homes you
perfect should as he comes out hunt dear? Did you
enjoy your supper?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Was lovely?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Here's your mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Is everything all right to go home now?
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Yes, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear. Did
you ask mister King to make that masket for you?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
The wise woman told me it would bring me a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh yes, I thought so.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Will everything be just like before?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the Wise Woman
have gone a where you you won't see them again.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh, dear, but you have you friends here, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Yes, and nice ones.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Remember that, Cynthia, We'll always be your friends.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I will doc to Watson. I like you both so much.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
King the Artist?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
He's like my daddy.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
it might change peculiarly foolish no slippers.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well, Dr Watson and Missus Campbell, that was a really
different kind of story.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I'm sure glad you were here tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Missus Campbell. Tell me has Dr Watson changed much since
you last saw it?
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Well?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yes, I think he's grown handsome.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And what about Missus Campbell?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Doctor, has she changed?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, she's more grown up for the last time I saw,
but she hasn't changed much in one respect. Who was that?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Your appetite?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I remember our homes was amazed the mouth you whit
when you were a child, but was certainly at justice
hot there dinner toceive me.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Well, that was your fault, doctor, Your dinner was too good.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh, since it don't don't talk about the wine.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Shouldn't I talk about the wine? It was wonderful, Sure
it was.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It was Petrie wine.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That's why you see got him started, and missus Campbell,
Petrie wine is always good wine. That's because the Petrie
family has been making wine for generations, ever since long
ago when they started the Petrie business. Wine making has
been an arfe with the Petrie family. It's a tradition,
a heritage that they've handed on down from father to son,
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from father to son. Believe me, when it comes to
turning luscious sun ripe and California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine,
well you can match your last dollar that the Petrie
family really knows how. No matter what type wine you
prefer for any occasion, you just can't miss with a
Petree wine because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
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doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes's adventure? Are you planning
to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Well, as nixt we got Saint Patrick's days about six
days a way, mister Bartella, I thought next week, did
I tell you a rather unusual story that took place
at Ireland at the turn of the Century concerns the
famous ceremony of Kissing Brown Tone, Saint Patrick's Night revel,
and an old Irish ballad that fled directly to one
of the most devilish murders that Chilock Holmes and I
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ever encountered, The Knight.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Arthur
Conan Doyle story.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The Adventure of the Copper Beaches.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Music is by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the
courtesy of Metro mayor mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they and our starring in the Sherlock
Holms series. You can read about the stars of our
broadcast the April issue of Everybody's Eye Jest the Country
Wine Company of San Francisco, California, and Byte You to
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tune in again next week, same time, same station. 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. Listen every Monday
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on most of these same stations at eight o'clock to
Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
This is a mutual broadcasting
Pet Tree Wine brings you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Basil rock Bone 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. Oh,
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and say, I'd like to tell you about something myself.
I'd like to tell you about the wine that more
Americans prefer than any other wine.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That wine is Port.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And if you want to know why port is such
a favorite, just pour yourself a glass of wonderful Petree
California Port. Look at that petre Port, look at its glowing,
deep red color, and sample lat aroma. It'll remind you
of of a walk through a dew covered vineyard. And
now taste that petre Port or you've got something. Petre
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Port is one of the most delicious wines ever poured
from a bottle. Right then and there, Petreport will become
your favorite wine.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm confident of that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And I'm sure you'll want to serve pet Report to
your friends too, after dinner or any time they drop
in for a visit.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And remember you can serve pet.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Report proudly because those letters P E.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
T R.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I spelled the proudest name in the history of American wines,
Petrie Petree Wine. And now I'm sure our good friend
doctor Watson's ready for us. Let's go in and join him.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh you are, mister bo good evening.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh excuse me, doctor Watson. I didn't know that you
had company.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
Hit mestery. Buto, this is my friend, missus Campbell.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
How do you do, missus Campbell?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How do you?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Miss Campbell is a very old friend of mine from England,
and when she called on me today, I've persuaded it
to stay dinner and then join us in this little
session of storytelling.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You see, mister.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Bartell, she's really what you might call the star the
Sherlock Holmes Adventure that I'm going to tell you tonight.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh come now, Doster Watson. I actually played a very
small part of the story. In any case, I was
much too young at the time to know what was
really going on.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Say this is a great idea, doctor, One of the
characters out of your fabulous past. Here in California in
nineteen hundred, and forty six and helps tell her own story.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh no, mister Bartell, I know storyteller. That's the doctor's department.
I'll just listen.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll set the scene.
But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
In any case, my.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Memory isn't to tear on some of the early points
in connection with the case.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You will have to help me out, hope with your
top do millions of listeners on the radio. I'd be
terrified to speak over the air.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
We're on the air now, missus Campbell.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Oh oh we not are we?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh, dear Anna, don't listen to If they're kind enough
to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll.
The setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And not until my dear, the captain going up and
the first scene belongs to you, supposing you said it
for us.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Well, ah, I'll try. We were living on the Sussex Downs. Also,
mister Bartel at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning.
My father, Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but
my mother kept up the estate with the manager, Miss
hough Tanner. I was away at school most of the year,
of course, but the happiest times of my childhood was
spent during those long summer months in Sussex. I lived
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in a small world, knowing only a few people, and
loving all of them, or almost all. First of all,
there was mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman
in the world, and the sweetest. I remember she gave
me a puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name he
was Dusty, and he was so sweet. I talked to
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Mother about him one day. I must have sounded terribly young.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
a lovely puppy.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And you gave him to me. You love him, Cynthia.
I know that, but I've been feeding him. That's your job, darling.
It's good for grown up people to have responsibility.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I I'll feed him so far hip burns.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Then there was the estate manager, you Tenna, such a
pleasant man and so willing to tell a twelve year
old all the things that a twelve year old has to.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Know are die.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
He'd only broken his.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Leg, Cynthia, Horses aren't like human feets, their legs board men.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
I think of a horse that couldn't frisk and run
and gallop across towns.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
We're actually being kind to him, honest to be, asked
him good.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And then there was very King, the painter who lived
on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
and really see him.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
No, no, no, Cynthia, that Sansett isn't red.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's gold and rushed and the water child, look at.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
It, it's almost rose in this light, rose flicked with cobwebs.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Think shell blue, don't you, darling? A Santa's never just
one color?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Still try and remember that, would you.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
Speaker 10 (05:33):
Uh, Cynthia, I am going to give you a half
a crown for being a very good at a girl.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Now tell me what will you do with it?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No, no, my dear, this is your own money.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You put it in the savings.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Account at the post office, and it would make more
money for you.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
Always remember, my dear, take care of the pennies, and
the pounds will take.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
the things that aren't in books.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Always remember my bunny.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
But it's good luck.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
To touch the hump of a hunchwilt.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
But the purso be Aldiva himself will be upon ye
if you look at the slipper, save the moon through
the glass.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And then the strangest and most wonderful of all was
the lean, middle aged man with a sharp face, and
the Beannut, whom I meet one day on the downs.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Good afternoon, young lady, Good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I'm Cynthia Barnie, one of his homes. Why are you
carrying that net you're looking for?
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Back?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Flat Popapo knows Ynthia.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm a bee farmer, beef farmer.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Oh that sounds funny, how your farm bee?
Speaker 10 (06:37):
Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Isn't a doll's?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
My mascot was given to be by Frank King, a painter.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
He made it for me.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
He made it to look as much like me as possible.
I call her me.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's remarkable likeness.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
See the hair that's clippings off my hair, and the
nails though, the clippings from my own nails. She's really
mean that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Your un nailed hair, and the dog isn't exact replico
of you. I don't like it, Cynthia.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
I remember my dear my name when you were it's
a Shellack Holmes and I live at the Bee Farm
and if anything unusual happened, that come to me at once.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You didn't understand why he was so worried about.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
The doll, No, but I remembered what he said about
coming to him if anything unusual happened.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yes, mister Boutell, and we did a very few days.
But at this point I think doctor Watson should take
over the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really entered.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
In a really well.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I was staying with
Holmes lately afternoon, as I remember that you ran over
to the bee farm when I.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
First met you Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
A few moments before you arrived, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And I, each of us with a couple of.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Tea, and our hands were seated on the verandah, gazing
out across the downs, discussing the mutas drength.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Watson, after a lifetime to git to the more flamboyant
aspects of everyday life, that now, in what is the
fast approaching twilight of my days, I find such peace
and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior of Fees.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I wonder what Marigati would have thought.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
You talking as if you're an old daughter of night.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
It you say what you like, and I don't think
that you will ever really be happy in retirement.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
It us the danger, the excitement of the case the public.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Of what are you talking about? My work is ever
for the public a pieces?
Speaker 10 (08:32):
And what did the public, the great unobservant public, who
can hardly tell a weaver by his tooth dollar types
that are by his left fun care about the finer
shades of analysis or deduction In any case, Watson, I
chose a happy time.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
To sink into oblivion.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
In comparative, every recent years, the criminal seems to have
lost all his originality and enterprise. My own little practice
when I gave it up, and seemed to be in
danger of developing into an agency for covering lost lead
pencils or giving advice to gaint theates from boarding schools.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Talking of young lady it is? Who's this little girl
running up to your driveway?
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Oh, great, Scott, it's a little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie. And
who wor chomming? Young neighbor of mine?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Mister Homes you told me to come to you. Something
unusual happened. It has something that's frightened me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well, no, said down, my dear. This is my old friend,
doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh how do you do, Cintia?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Ah, Centitia? What has frightened?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
For? It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Through the hot Great Scott, it darl it's an exact
repercover with a penknife passed into it.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Gracious way, when did you find your your mascot like this.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Just a tea.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Ronnie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
went up to my room, hasan pour me on the bed.
I remembered what you told me about anything unusual, and
so I came over here as fast.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
As I could. I'm glad that you did.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
She was still talking to the gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You worry about you.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
When she discovers your disappearance, I will go over and
talk to her at once. Cynthia, my dear, Yes, mister Holmes,
who was a gentleman calling on your mother?
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Well, the wit, mister Tanner, he's the man who looks
after the estate. The money, mister King.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Mister King is the man who made this darle Eh.
Now who else was there?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Mister Town he's.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
A businessman from London that's staying with money.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
And they were all present in your house when you
found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
what's no chap?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
You're so?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother at once. I
want Cynthia to take care with you. Got her old
chap as you would life, missus Barning. I know I'm
seen like an intrusive neighbor, but possibly you've heard of me.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
My name is Holmes.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Sherlock comes well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Please sit down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thank you? You are guests have left?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
But how did you know I had guests? I know
you're a great to take it.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
You know, your charming little daughter, Cynthia came over to
see me half now, she told.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Me, so that's where she went? Did she come back quickly?
Speaker 10 (11:10):
No, missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained
at my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson
will look after her. I am afraid she may be
in danger.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Do you know?
Speaker 10 (11:21):
Your daughter's dull one, fashioned in her own likeness and
with her own hair and nails.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Of course, Franking nade it for her.
Speaker 10 (11:27):
While you were achieve This afternoon, your daughter found the
doll lying on her bed with a pen knife stuck
through its heart.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
It's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
be in any danger because of it, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Missus Banning, Certain practitioners of magic.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
Believe that if a doll like effigy is made of
a human being and the effergy is then mutilated, that
a similar fate will befall the living original.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
That, mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
in it, not.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
In the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Banning.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. No, it may be
more than a possiblity of and when these magical means fail,
they will turn to more direct methods.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
But who could possibly want her death?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You were?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You have not remarried, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
to ask as child Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If then, anyone wishing to marry you might feel that
Cynthia stood in the way. But that's absurd but logical,
Missus Brownie. Do you mind if I ask you a
very personal question?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
With Cynthia's safety at stake? You may ask any question.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Are any of the three men who were present at
tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, I please be completely honest, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
At different times they they've all asked me to marry them.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
this pen knife before? It was the one unstuck through
the doll's heart.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I don't think I've ever seen it before.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
One final question, anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a knowledge
of the practice of magic?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Might?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh who? Might she be?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
downs near here. She brews, weird concoctions with her love
filters and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
A suitable companion for your daughter, Missus Brownie.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I know it's, mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I like to talk to this woman. And where does
she live?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
He used her as a model.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Thank King the Painter.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
Yes, he lives in the village, and ifall call on
him at once and persuade him to accompany it. We
must find that wise woman, and I hope save your
child from magic, magic, impossible murder.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Much further, mis king to only a few more yards,
mister Holmes, I look cottages just behind the trees there.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Broken down place.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Poor old girl.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
There's only a few pennies to her name. Missus Ranning
was telling me that you'll use this old woman model. Yes,
she was a fascinating subject.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I painted her.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
She was mixing up some devil concoction of herbs and spices.
I had her standing over a smoking coldron with the
firelight playing.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
On her was who was spite?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
The factor?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Hasn't?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Must have been the subject of witchcraft, appeals to his king. Well,
I don't know anything about it, which that's just. But
she was such a wonderful subject for Payton. Here we are.
I'm knock on the door and I will take the
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liberty of going in. Shine, I don't why not sh
What is it? This came from that room? Someone is here?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Come on, look at her, Look at her head.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Poor She's alive. She's in long for this world? Can
you hear me? Yeah? Let me lift you up a little?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Can you understand what I'm saying. Tell me who is
it that did this to you? She's too pagan speak
a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
were thanks. Now you write the name of the man
who did this to you.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
She's pushing the pencil away. How don't foosh she knows
how to write. She was trying to show you something,
mister Holmes. She's trying to crawl over.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
To the wall. Y, yeah, let me help you. It's
gonna be a hiding place of some kind. Look, she's
taking a brick out of the door. What is it,
Great scott money editable Jackdaws, A nest of pennies and
small silver and at least a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That was for the money book.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
She's picking up one of the silver coins.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
She's trying to get to you a sixpence. But what
a poor woman.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
She's dead just as she was trying to tell me
something I can't understand it. Don't lose sovereigns in this hovel.
And she she was showing you a silver sixpence as
she died. Mister Holmes, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Bert? Check on the young girl's safety?
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Well, I should like you to collect my mother's assembly
the other two men who were pressing the tea time
this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrived. I
shall belong but the police. I shall summon them as
a king when I have the murderer to offer them,
and I'm convinced, But that will be before the sun sets.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Tonight, we'll hear the.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Rest of doctor Watson's story in just a second time
enough for me to mention another wonderful Patree wine, Patree
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(16:56):
But I don't mean by that that only the.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Ladies like Patrie Muskeatell.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
In fact, if you want to be sure to please everybody,
get both Patri Port and Patri Muscatel. In other words,
don't buy one, buy two, but don't be sure you
always buy Patrick. Now back to doctor Watson and his
guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played the most important part
in the story herself.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Home not nearly as important a part of that played
by mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
at the bee.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Fine, Well, first of all, he made short the little
girl was safe. Now he told me of finding the
dead woman and of his theories as to the killing.
I can almost hear it now, mister Bartels.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He said.
Speaker 10 (17:39):
Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
they knew the mother would never marry while the child
was alive.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And that's someone persuaded the old woman to.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
Do the job for her must bend outedly, and she,
believing in the pass of black magic, mutilate the doll,
firmly convinced that in so doing she was destroying the
young girl.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Profession doctor.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
woman was a million dulging in stupid for cloy, killed her,
realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous hindro.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
How do you suppose the account for the horde of
money golden sovereigns don't get if we found him a hoble,
No doubt it was the sum she.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Has already been paid for the murder that she was
going to commit.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
As she died, she.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Trying to give me the clue to our murder of
I selecting certain certain coin. Now in a posession she
had gold, silver, and copper. She chose a silver coin.
And yet I can't see it significance. I must confess
at the moment passed a lot. And yet before the
evening's over. I bet you look, you say, Watson, I said,
before the evening's over, I bet you lect, you, old fellow,
(18:42):
that's the clue.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You bet me what on earth you're talking about? Homes,
I'll just say, you'll.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Just give me the answer to the whole problem.
Speaker 10 (18:48):
Watson, I'm much obliged you stay here with you will
chap and look out Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
A little while longer.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Within a very short time, I shall have her intended
destroyer under luck and key.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I've had the greatest difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen
that their presence was necessary.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
what happened, Yes, sir, well, uh, mister, I think it's.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Be a good idea to ney one what happened?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
How do you do, mister Poun?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh, how do you do, mister Holmes?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And look here? If there's some scandal now there is,
mister Pown.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Then I want my name kept out of it.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You here, I have a seat on the London stoppage.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Change that is comfortable for you.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yes, And the other gentleman, by the process of elimination,
must be mister Hugh Tanna, the Nana jel of you're
estate Missus Brown.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yes, I'm Hugh Candle.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
all about, I'm as straightforward men in all this mystery
is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerned us all.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What is it? Murdered?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The murder?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Good lord, who's been murdered? An old woman who lived
in the village.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Your daughter, Missus Barning referred to her as the wise woman,
mister King, and I found her to night in her
cottage on the downs, beaten to death.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Murdered.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Why that's shocking.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
But what's it got to do with I'll explained mister
carnd Each one of you, I believe would like to
marry Missus Browning. Her daughter Cynthia is an obstacle to
such a marriage. One of you decided to remove that
obstacle and engage the wise woman to carry out the plan.
Finding the woman clumsy and ineffective, you decided that she
was a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately,
(20:39):
the poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the
crew to her murderer.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But how did she do that?
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Mister Holmes? I thought you said that she died without speaking.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
She did, Missus Browning, But she gave me the clue
none the less, though I was shocking the slow and
spotting it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Well, what was the clue?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Into the opener. You were with me, mister King, as
she died. I shall let you tell them.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well. She was dying, unable to speak.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her, she couldn't write,
but she showed him a horde of copper and silver coins,
a dozen golden sovereigns.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Sovereigns in a hovel like that.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Oh I see, she meant her murderer was the man
who had paid her, and with all that ill gotten wealth,
she died touching her silver sixpence.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well you is still doctor.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
See who the murderer is?
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Come along, gentlemen, you should know it as well as
you know your own names. Now, mister King mentioned that
there were a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Sovereign? Sovereign?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
King? You thank King were America.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
That's ridiculous. The old woman wasn't exactly a map to mind?
Why should she be so so indirect? And how much
is a sovereign worth a pound? And your name, my friend,
with a seat on the London stuck exchange, is pounds?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yet this is absolutely absurd.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I can prove that I've never even met the woman.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Well what is the answer, mister Holmes, I'm sure that
you know it.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
The answer is obvious, Missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
say that a chance remark.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Of Dr Watson's came to the clue. Oh no, look
here I stopped beating about the bush.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Holmes. What is the art?
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Very simple?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Ones to pound with twelve golden sovereigns at hand? Sovereigns
that would suggest either the name of king or pound.
What coin did the dying woman select? A sixpence exactly,
a humble silver sixpence, and what is the common slang
word for a sixpence, a tan precisely, which tells us
that you, mister Hugh Tanna.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Killed the wise maidy try and coved, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All just trying al hus what happened.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
I found the mead road, Jeff, thanks to you mean
thanks to me well, I was thinking of a sixpence,
the coin the dead woman clutched in her hand, and
a sixpence when he said I bet you, I thought
of the much used expression bet youa tanner, and that
gave me the kill of the whole business. The dying
woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Was her murder, he confess to say before the police arrived.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Yes, after thank King, the artist had started to give
him something flashing he deserved.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh, I take no particular pride in the case Watson.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Without your Chancellor Mark, I might easily have overlooked this
obvious clue that the dying woman gave me. As I
said before, Oh, Chap, I should not attempt to emerge
from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's obvious, but
my reflexes are shockingly slow.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Publish. The police would never have solved.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
All My dear Watson, when you compare me.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
With the police, I realized that my retirement should be permanent.
And by the way, where is Cynthia?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Well?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I arranged with your house you preferred to heaven early supper.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Some kippers of folks they got too a piece of
that quick.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Attack we had last night for a twelve year old girl.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
accuse you of being a potential murderer. Comnor homes you
perfect should as he comes out hunt dear? Did you
enjoy your supper?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Was lovely?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Here's your mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Is everything all right to go home now?
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Yes, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear. Did
you ask mister King to make that masket for you?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
The wise woman told me it would bring me a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh yes, I thought so.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Will everything be just like before?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the Wise Woman
have gone a where you you won't see them again.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh, dear, but you have you friends here, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Yes, and nice ones.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Remember that, Cynthia, We'll always be your friends.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I will doc to Watson. I like you both so much.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
King the Artist?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
He's like my daddy.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
it might change peculiarly foolish no slippers.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well, Dr Watson and Missus Campbell, that was a really
different kind of story.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I'm sure glad you were here tonight.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Missus Campbell. Tell me has Dr Watson changed much since
you last saw it?
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Well?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yes, I think he's grown handsome.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And what about Missus Campbell?
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Doctor, has she changed?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, she's more grown up for the last time I saw,
but she hasn't changed much in one respect. Who was that?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Doctor?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Your appetite?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I remember our homes was amazed the mouth you whit
when you were a child, but was certainly at justice
hot there dinner toceive me.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Well, that was your fault, doctor, Your dinner was too good.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh, since it don't don't talk about the wine.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Shouldn't I talk about the wine? It was wonderful, Sure
it was.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
It was Petrie wine.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That's why you see got him started, and missus Campbell,
Petrie wine is always good wine. That's because the Petrie
family has been making wine for generations, ever since long
ago when they started the Petrie business. Wine making has
been an arfe with the Petrie family. It's a tradition,
a heritage that they've handed on down from father to son,
(26:08):
from father to son. Believe me, when it comes to
turning luscious sun ripe and California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine,
well you can match your last dollar that the Petrie
family really knows how. No matter what type wine you
prefer for any occasion, you just can't miss with a
Petree wine because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
(26:31):
doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes's adventure? Are you planning
to tell us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Well, as nixt we got Saint Patrick's days about six
days a way, mister Bartella, I thought next week, did
I tell you a rather unusual story that took place
at Ireland at the turn of the Century concerns the
famous ceremony of Kissing Brown Tone, Saint Patrick's Night revel,
and an old Irish ballad that fled directly to one
of the most devilish murders that Chilock Holmes and I
(26:58):
ever encountered, The Knight.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Arthur
Conan Doyle story.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The Adventure of the Copper Beaches.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Music is by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the
courtesy of Metro mayor mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they and our starring in the Sherlock
Holms series. You can read about the stars of our
broadcast the April issue of Everybody's Eye Jest the Country
Wine Company of San Francisco, California, and Byte You to
(27:46):
tune in again next week, same time, same station. 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. Listen every Monday
(28:06):
on most of these same stations at eight o'clock to
Michael Shane, followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
This is a mutual broadcasting
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