August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
transmitted to our men and women over is by shortwave
and through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Petree Wine brings.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You Dazo Wackborne and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures
of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took
time to bring you good wine.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Invites you to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Listen to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he
shared with his old friend, that master Detective Schwock Holmes.
And as for me, well, I'd like to tell you
about a wine it's just wonderful before dinner. And that
wine is Petrie California's sherry. You know about sherry, of course,
but do you know about Pety sherry. That Petrie sherry
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is the kind of wine you can really talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It has the look of quality, a.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Rich, dark amber color, and it has the aroma, the
bouquet as the experts call it, of one it for
sun ripened grapes and flavor. Well, if you want your
wine that tastes good, pet Tree Sherry is the one
you want.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's really delicious.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh and incidentally, if you like your sherry on the
dry side, you know not. Sweet Petree makes a pale,
dry sherry that's out of this world. Take home a
bottle of Petree sherry. Serve it by itself or with
orders or cocktail sandwiches, but serve it proudly because the
name Petrie is the proudest name in the history of
American wines. And I'll prior weekly visit with the good
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doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm sure he's expecting us to doctor. Oh no, no,
don't get off. You look much too comfortable.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Take if you're a coach, and come and join me.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, I enjoyed your story of a scandal in Bohemia
last week, doctor, and tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You promised us a sequel.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yes, that's right, it's about tell a sequel to place
over twenty years afterwards.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
In nineteen hundred and nine to be elected Shellock Holmes
was living on his Sussex pe farm. Was only in June.
I remember that.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I received a telegram from the great Man asking me
to come and spend a long weekend with him.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And I'm sure you needed no urging to accept the invitation.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
None, mister Bardo, none at all.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I hadn't seen Holmes for some time and this fact,
combined with my rather indifferent health, found me on the
Eastbourne train a few hours.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
After receiving the telegram.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
A dog cart was at the station to meet me,
and after a brisk drive across the Downs, I found myself.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Once more with my good friend. He looked somewhat older
than when I had last seen.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Him, but as he spoke to me, I realized, from
the keenness of his voice and the sparkle in his
eye that Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Would never really be old.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
After a while, our conversation lapsed into the comfortable silence that,
because he could tap on me, exists only between friends.
And there, as the sun was setting, Holmes picked up
his beloved violin and began to play some haunting melody.
As he lay back, eyes half closed, his long, thin
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fingers caressing the instrument, a wave of nostralia swept over there.
I thought of the many years that we'd spent together,
of the exciting adventures that we had shared during the
old days.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In Baker Street. Beautiful, quite beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Thank you Watson.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
M M. You look uncommonly wistfullyer Jan, you're thinking of
the old days, yes, Holmes, I was so was I
so well. Those were exciting times. But it's company to
think that now we will not be disturbed by a
dangling doorbell follows by some poor.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Devil in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Nowadays, my greatest excitements are connected with the segregation of
the Queen Bee and the night time proclivities of Charles Augustus,
my Tomcat.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I still find it hard to think of you in
retirement homes. Do you ever consider returning to active practice?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Or I consider it occasionally and then reject the idea
and the should work only up to the peak of visibility.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I'm past nine.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Nonsense homes just alert as.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Over you were mentally, perhaps they're not physically.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Would we consider handling a small problem in in England with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Its personal problem that defects you, My dear Chap. You
know I'll do anything I can.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's exactly my problem, Homes. But it was a charming
young girl on the train.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
We we got into conversation, and you don't age in, Chap.
You are just as susceptible as ever.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No, no, no, no, Homes, let me finish. She said
that you knew her mother quite well.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Her mother Allen, Oh, yes, Deve's what is it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm sorry to disturb you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Your man said I might come in my master, mister
Linton Stanley instructed me to deliver the snow.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He yes, also instructed me to wait for a reply.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What confounded infidence? You said, master, that there's no answer
to this letter.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But he told me I must get a reply.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
If you don't, stan Standard that I will instruct my
solicitors to reply to his message in due course.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Sir, that's all, dealers. You may go pretty good, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
What did the note say? Hum?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Read it for yourself.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Keep yourselthy, these where they belong. One of my guests
is stung yesterday. If this happens again, I'll have the
police run you out of his place. Lord, an offensive letter.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The man himself is even more offensive.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
He's a retired manufacturer who thinks that his immense wealth
entitles him to domineer over the local residence.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh but let not.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Spoil a nice sunny afternoon by discussing him. Please continue
with the sorry of the young lady that you've met
on the Yes, I'd like to.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All little things seems in dreadful trouble. I wish you
would help her.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You say that she told you were her mother knew me? Yes,
what's her name?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Norton? I really Norton Norton.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't seem to recall. Over the course, where is
the girl Watson?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
She's staying at the Red Lne in the village.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then ring her on the telephone and ask her to
come over and get as fast as she can. Of
course I'll help her.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I'm related at Holmes. But what made you change your
mind so suddenly?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's a shock that you can't remember. I really Adler,
sure you haven't forgotten. In the case you call the
scandal in Bohemia, eye was completely fool while Julius.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This is, of course you always referred to as the woman.
But how does Irene Notton fit into the picture?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I really Idler married a barrister named Jeffrey. Tell miss
Notton to come at wets Watson. She's the daughter of
the woman.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Mister Holmes. I had too much about you from mother.
She says, you're the cleverest man in England.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Your mother flatters me, my dear child, She herself was
much more tell than I.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
In fact, yes, did she ever tell you about the
the circumstances under which we met.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Mister Holmes, though she did tell me that you were
a witness when she and my father were met.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Very true, my dear, Very true. Though the o ken
was a little there.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, I will we say unusual. Look here it's sir
Golden's oprin. I wear on my watch chains and a
mentor of that day. I also have a charming photograph
of your mother.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
You must have known her quite well.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
How about telling mister Holmes about your troubles? Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Reminiscences are charming that they can wait until we've dealt
with your problems.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Mister Holmes, I'm being blackmailed.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh I'm sorry to hear it by whom by a.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Neighbor of yours, mister Lyttle Stanley.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Do you know him?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes, yes, indeed I do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Matter of fact, mister Holmes received the most offensive note
from the gentleman less than an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What hold does mister Stanley have over you, my dear?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
He has some letters and rather indiscreet editors of mine
that I wrote to a friend of his last year.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How did he obtain these letters, Miss Norton?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
He must have stolen them.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I don't know how but when I staying in his
house a few weeks ago, he told me that he
had them and asked five thousand pounds for their return.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And why should he consider our letters eaten in discreet
letters worth so large a son?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I'm engaged to be married to Lord Western's son. That
awful man didn't Stanley knows that if my fiance saw
the letters, the marriage would never take.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Plans I must see extremely compromising.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
They aren't, really, But I was much younger when I
wrote some in facts. I was only seventeen. I'm afraid
they could easily be misconstrued.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Have you told your mother?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh no, she'd never understand. She might surprise you on that.
I think, how about your father?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Daddy's a barrister. You can imagine how straight is easy
about the whole thing. That's why I came to you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh I see you. She will feel that I am
not so well? We say, straight, lady, of course you aren't.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Mother's told me about you. And in any case, I've
read doctor Watson's story.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
What is my dear fellow on your stories will lend
me in Celia trouble one of these days?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
What are you suggesting mister Holmes can do for him
get the letters back for me?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But how steal them?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No? No, no, mydear, what's Dubby Shocksnorton is a fourth
right girl?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I come out before her? It's mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
You can't say you won't help me.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, I don't think that. I can't say it. In
any case, I have a slight personal score to settle with.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Mister Linton Stanley myself. He's rude and has no understanding be.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And how are you going to steal the letters?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That problem requires a thought, old chap.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I can tell you how to do it, mister.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hol This is delightful, my dear.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You explained the problem and also the way of solving it.
How easy a detective's work might be if all plans
were equally helpful.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Tell me what is your plan?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Tomorrow? The servants half day off at mister Lytton Stanley's.
He will be alone there during the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
How do you know that fact?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
My maid was keeping company, as they say, with Beavis
the butler when I was staying there a few weeks ago.
She found out everything from him. My letters are kept
in a filigree box in his.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Desk with your enterprise. My dear, I'm surprised that you
didn't try and open the desk to sol.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I did, but it's very still and has a combination
of hard However, I'm sure that you and doctor Watson
can think of some way of getting the letters, particularly
if mister Litton Stanley's alone.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
In the house. We shall do our best, Miss Morton,
har must.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Be one thing, though, both of you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
What's that? Don't read the letters? Will you?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I'm really rather ashamed of writing.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Course we won't. You're both so sweet to me.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
How can I thank you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Would be a little time that you are you could
do us to say that? Of course?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Your mother had a beautiful voice, I recall. I wonder
if you would hit her talents.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I do sing, though I've never done so professionally like mother, and.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I've never played the violin professionally. But perhaps sent between
us we could give Watson a little concern the.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Life flow, Dear, we can't do anything until tomorrow anywhere?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
What would you like to sing?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Song?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
More? William? Remarkably appropriate.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So of the from.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Tonight music and Tomorrow A touch of Daylight robbery.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Dear old Watson, your disguise is really excellent.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I must confess I'm a little APPREHENSI.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wont have there's no need to be.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I assure you you as doctor Hamish, and I as
the referend LB are calling mister pen Stanley ostensibly in
search of a contribution for my charity hospital that you
are in charge of.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What could this imply?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What made you decide on the role of the clergyman?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It should simplify our entrance at the house.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I must confess that a rare touch of sentiments
pumped at the choice of my disguise.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
How do sentiments enteranty.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Or surely you remember that it was in the role
of a simple minded, nonconformist clergyman that I once attempted
to deceive Miss Norton's mother.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's right, I've forgotten. That woman really fascinates you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Renny Adler was one woman I've always regarded with unbounded admiration,
even though she was a criminal.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But the matter of this fellow, are you ready? Yes,
you have the equipment I mentioned to you in my pocket.
That chap let's be off if his home mother devil
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doesn't the answer the door.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Come, Come, come, my dear reverend Apple for passing your
languages is hardly approved.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm sorry, doctor Heimmish, that comes someone.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, mister Litton Stander, that's my name.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The nine is Apple and this is my friend.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Doctor Haines id to me. I've heard a great deal, Bilky.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What can I do for you if we're to come
in from her medle explain our mission very well.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I'm into the study.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We're raising a subscription list for charity Hospital of battle Way,
just across the Downs. You're a prominent residence here. We
thought that you'd like to donate a few guineas.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
I'm really not very interested. I've given as much to
charity this year.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
As I can afford.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well, it's a fine courser.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I'm giving my medical services three days a week, and
the Reverend Appleby is done his saviss two?
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Who else has contributed to this time?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Your neighbors, sir. We just came from the bee farm
over the Downs. The owner, mister Holmes gave us a
check for five guinas.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Holmes gave you five guineas did he have?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Very nice gentleman, mister Holmes. We're propos him to name
a world in the hospital after him.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Is this list of subscribers going to be published in
the paper.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Oh yes, oh yes, mister Bitton stands.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'll give you, sir, if you say, Hugh, I'll get
my check book fits in this desk?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Now who do I make this check payable to?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Will still.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Any heat? Watson iPhone doesn't take long? The ling of
the desk. That's it. Do see philipgree box in there?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Huh there it is splendid. Holmes, don't open it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You promise that you would, just wish to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
To make sure pull us there, mister Sherlock Holme, Oh no,
don't move. I have a revolver, and don't turn around.
Place the box on the table. Mister Holmes, put your
hands up, gentlemen, both of you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I know that vices dealers, but that's quite correct, Olive.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
If you need pull a revolvers, is your your muster.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm not in the least interested in my master's health,
doctor Watson. In fact, if you were dead, I should
be delighted.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And what are you up to leave us?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm taking advantage of a situation, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I've been trying to open that desk.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Boots.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
After such kindness on your part, sir, I hate to
seem ungracious, but I'm pretty afraid I shall have to
kill you. To kill both of you, Doctor Watson's story
will continue in just a second, So I'm just going
to remind you that good food always tastes better when
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served with good wine. And if you like a red wine,
say with steak or meat of any kind, you love
Petrie California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a white wine,
say with chicken or fish, then by all means, get
Petree California so turned.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh, and look, if opinion is.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Divided in your family, if some of you like a
red wine and some like white, yes is obvious. Don't
buy one, buy two.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Remember that, huh.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Don't buy one, buy two, but do buy Petrie. Then
you know it's good, the doctor. That was a fine
place to break off your story, with the butler pointing
a gun at your backs, and you and Sherlock homes
with your hands above your heads.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What happened next?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, at least you didn't get killed.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You wouldn't be sitting here in California night telling me
the story.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
But supposing I'd take you back in the story to
the point where I looked off well, all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Right, then take me back down it take me back
very well.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
He stood their homes, and iye our hands above our heads,
as Divas said.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How greateful I am that you were open the desk
for me after such kindness on your part, Sir, I
hate to seem ungracious, but I'm greatfully afraid I'm going
to have to kill you both because I just like
to APPEs stupid at such a dramatic moment.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
But why is it near to kill us?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For months, I have been waiting for an opportunity to
steal the Kitman Jar Emerald, and now you have done
it for me, sir, and presented me with a perfect
galibar kit the jar Emerald. Who come now, Miss Pomes.
You know the treasures in this house as well as
I do. Apart from the emerald, there's a superb genie.
Fetch a fine price in the right Mandy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
We aren't here after any valuables, my good man.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Please don't call me your good man, doctor Watson. It's
patronizing and untrue. In any case, sir, whether you were
here after the valuables or not makes no difference. I've
caught you both red handed.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You're complictly in my power.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Gentlemen, I can't steal the treasures I sperson and pretend
to be responsible exactly, Sir, I shall kill you both
secree for objects appeal to me, and when my master
agains consciousness, I should explain that I found three men
burgling the house, that I killed two of them while
the third got away.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
With the loot.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Who will be able to die by word to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Be regarded as a hero, then might even have my
salary raised. Watson, I'm afraid this is the end.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Door chap, a sordid way to die.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
God adds at least two esteep courtesy of allowing us
to face the farthing squad.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Will him very well?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Gentlemen, turn round, but don't try any tricks.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
One last request, and what is it, sir? I'm beaten,
and I admit it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm getting old, but in my headay, I crossed the
swords with some of the greatest criminals in Europe.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
My life has been attempted many times, but I've always escaped.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
If this is to be my sponsor, at least give
me the privilege of shaking the hand of a man
who has at last bested me. Well said, I feel
that I'm stepping a little out of my station. But
I suppose the situation is unusual. I hope don't object
to the left hand, Sir, I'll keep the.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Revolver in my right.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Very well, Divers, you are good bye, mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Goodbye, Divers, and my congratulations, but my congratulations for being
a fool. Well on home, never getting old Watson. But
I've not lost my skill of barat So.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You went over your shoulder in a flash. Fortunately the
bullet went wise.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Watson struck the desk as it fell.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You'll be unconscious for a while.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Good that, I think, will take the pause of cursing
this desk drawer. Then want him to be exposed to
perfect temptation when he comes to how we are?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I shouldn't we get into touch with the police?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Home?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Please qu'scoton ol follow?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
After all we are bird lesson were in disguise is
two facts that would be hard to explain satisfactorily.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And open with at to the pea pharma soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You suppose you're right, Miss Notton'll be waiting for us.
Then tell her what happened. Poor girl. I'm fraid she's
in for something of a shock.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
It's the home, doctor Watson. I'm so glad to see
you back again. Did you get the filigree box?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yes, Miss Norton, here it is at homes. I didn't
know that you, Watson. Why not open it? Miss Norton?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Will I open it?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
My dear? They may not be love letters beside it,
but there's a note. Why don't you read it to us?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Let this be a warning Norton. Crime does not pay
if you don't believe me at your mother? Sincerely, shall
I comes?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Mister Holmes, you knew mer secret, hold it not all
the time, but I realized that as soon as I'd
opened the filigree box.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What on earth you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
This?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Norton was under the impression that she could use me
as a cat for as a dupe to commit a
burglary for her.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I still don't understand. Home.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You will remember she asked us to promise not to
open the box, But.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You did, sir. Just before the fellow Helme, I saup
with a revolver. What was inside the.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Barn impressive greenstone which I knew to be the Kitman
jar Emerald.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I slipped it back into mister little Standley's.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Desk and locked it, rocked the box yere because I
wanted to see your expression, Miss Norton as you opened it, Scott,
and I thought you would pull a thing in trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You have to save yourself, younglady.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
That I'm terribly sorry, mister Holmes, terribly Harry. It seems
like a wildly exciting idea. But I didn't really.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Mean to see you of course not no, no, of
course you didn't lent me to see it for you,
Miss Norton. I'm convinced you knew that your mother once
outwitted me, and you presumed to think that you could
do the same. I should turn you over to the police.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Please don't, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I certainly could, but I'm not going to for two reasons. First,
you're young and impressionable, and this can teach you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And in the second place, I have a strange.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Admiration for your mother. But I want you, Miss Norton,
that you have had a narrow escape, a very narrow.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Escape, mister Holmes. Before I go, there's one favor I
want to ask you, really, what is it? Could I
keep this filigree box with your note inside it. It
would be a reminder all my life of how we met.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
What do you say, Watson, your box to give as
to your fellow.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's quite true, but I fail to see how we
can return it now without disclosing our own share in
the attempted robbery.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
In any case, I don't like mister Lipton Stanley.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We might indulge in a little petty last name with
doctor feeling too guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Very well, Miss Morton, you may keep the box.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I shall owe his treasure it. Thank you. Good Bye,
Doctor Watson, don't think too badly of me. Good night,
mister sher Lock.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Home you know homes. I must say you were surprisingly
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lenient with that girl. You suppose her mother put her
up clothing.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That possibility had occurred to me. Hello, and yet I
have a feeling that come in doors open?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Will you expected? Gott?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
It's looking believing, sir. This is an unexpected honor Holmes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
We haven't been the best of friends, I know, but
you've got to help me now. I'm in serious trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh indeed, wont you sit down? This is my friend
of what I do? And now, sir, and what is
your trouble?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I've been robbed, Holmes, robbed what the stone? Well, my
greatest pleasure. The Kipmens are emeralds to remove from his chase,
and then mysteriously returned loose in my jest afterwards.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
But there's a priceless Chillney missing.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Have you.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Have you any eye hear who the Thurgos might be
or it was a gang.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm sure that's a couple of disguise as a clergureman
and a doctor came into the house on the pretext
of raising money for some hospital, and they overpowered.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Me with chlorophorm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh, dear me, dear me, I'm very I'm plessing for you. Yes,
when I came to I found my bucket Jebbers lying
beside me in a pool of blood. The brave fellow
had wrestled with the thigs, but they got away and
he's in the hospital now. Holmes, you've got to help me.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The kitman jar emerald was returned, you say, but a
Chillini is missing.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes, it's an it's filigree box in which I had
kept the emerald, a phillygree box. Yes, it's a genuine Chellini.
It's worth several thousand pounds. Homes you must help me
solve this business. I'm sorry, mister little Stanley, but I'm
afraid I can't help you. I retired, yes, and I
intend to remain in retirement.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Good night, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Not all, but I will pay you any fee within reason.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
My decision is final, sir, good night.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I might have known I wouldn't get any help from you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Holmes, she fools again, stares the little devil. She knew
that boxters at Tellina all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You don't seem very angry with all Ah.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I should be, but I'm not. What splendid audacity, what
a superper nerve the child has?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
But you must get the box back from her?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I shall, watson, I shall, or rather I shall persuade
Deepest to do it for me as the price of
our silence.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
How can he get it back?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Remember that he walks out as Miss Norton's maid.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I am certain that when he explains his predicament, he
can prevail upon her to steal the box from her mistress,
so that it may be returned to which white colona.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
It's a good idea that, George Holmes, this not is
a chip of old block, all right?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yes, wats and cheers, and it makes me wonder for
the birth. Ah, I wonder, my dear Chap, how long
I can remain in retirement such worthy antagonist at large
As a challenge, it's an irresistible challenge, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Doctor Watson. I just can't get over the way you
and mister Holmes. Let that girl Irene was at her name,
pull of wool over your eyes? Why she really twisted
you around her little fingers.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I like to make extremely positive statements, but I'm sure
that if you were in my shoes, I really would
not only have twisted you around her little finger that
she had you ruin about hoops standing on your head.
You mean she was that beautiful, mister, butto she was
so beautiful that she'd make you forget all about Petrie.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Wine, Doctor Watson, No girl is that beautiful? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
How young you really are?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Maybe so?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But there are lots of pretty girls in this world
and only one Patree wine. That's because there's only one
Patrie family that's been making wine since the eighteen hundreds.
And believe me, because the Patrick business has always been
family owned and operated, they've been able to hand on
down from father to son, from father to son. The
highly skilled art of making fine wine, and those generations
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of wine making add up to a lot of experience.
The Patrie family really knows how to turn luscious California
grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. That's why, no matter what
type wine you wish, you can't go wrong looking for
the label that says p E.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
T R.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I Petrie, because Patrey took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what story are you planning to tell us
next week?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Well, now, next week, mister Bartell's the day before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
An adventure that took place many years ago and involved
homes and myself in one of the most fantastic Christmas
Eve situations in which we ever found ourselves.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I think you like the story. I call it the
Night before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That sounds well, doctor.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
By the way, before I comes to Barcola, I'd like
to remind our listeners there's no better way to spend money.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
And to spend it on Christmas seals.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Every pen is spent on Christmas seals not only helps
cure tuberculosis, but it also helps prevent it right in
your own community.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Your purchases of Christmas steals in the past have saved
thousands of lives.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Keep saving lives by all the Christmas seals you can
afford this year, now, won't you.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's story A Scandal in Bohemia. Music is
by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of
Metro Goldwyn Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in the Sherlock
Holms series. Basil Rathbone's new Columbia record album, Robin Hood,
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is now available at your music store. The Petree Wine
Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune again
next week, same time, same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to
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you from our Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is Harry Bartel.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Saying good night for the Petrie family. For a solid
hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most
of these same stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane,
followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting SYS
This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be
transmitted to our men and women over is by shortwave
and through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Petree Wine brings.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You Dazo Wackborne and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures
of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took
time to bring you good wine.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Invites you to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Listen to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he
shared with his old friend, that master Detective Schwock Holmes.
And as for me, well, I'd like to tell you
about a wine it's just wonderful before dinner. And that
wine is Petrie California's sherry. You know about sherry, of course,
but do you know about Pety sherry. That Petrie sherry
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is the kind of wine you can really talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It has the look of quality, a.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Rich, dark amber color, and it has the aroma, the
bouquet as the experts call it, of one it for
sun ripened grapes and flavor. Well, if you want your
wine that tastes good, pet Tree Sherry is the one
you want.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's really delicious.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh and incidentally, if you like your sherry on the
dry side, you know not. Sweet Petree makes a pale,
dry sherry that's out of this world. Take home a
bottle of Petree sherry. Serve it by itself or with
orders or cocktail sandwiches, but serve it proudly because the
name Petrie is the proudest name in the history of
American wines. And I'll prior weekly visit with the good
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doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm sure he's expecting us to doctor. Oh no, no,
don't get off. You look much too comfortable.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Take if you're a coach, and come and join me.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, I enjoyed your story of a scandal in Bohemia
last week, doctor, and tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You promised us a sequel.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yes, that's right, it's about tell a sequel to place
over twenty years afterwards.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
In nineteen hundred and nine to be elected Shellock Holmes
was living on his Sussex pe farm. Was only in June.
I remember that.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I received a telegram from the great Man asking me
to come and spend a long weekend with him.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And I'm sure you needed no urging to accept the invitation.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
None, mister Bardo, none at all.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I hadn't seen Holmes for some time and this fact,
combined with my rather indifferent health, found me on the
Eastbourne train a few hours.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
After receiving the telegram.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
A dog cart was at the station to meet me,
and after a brisk drive across the Downs, I found myself.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Once more with my good friend. He looked somewhat older
than when I had last seen.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Him, but as he spoke to me, I realized, from
the keenness of his voice and the sparkle in his
eye that Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Would never really be old.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
After a while, our conversation lapsed into the comfortable silence that,
because he could tap on me, exists only between friends.
And there, as the sun was setting, Holmes picked up
his beloved violin and began to play some haunting melody.
As he lay back, eyes half closed, his long, thin
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fingers caressing the instrument, a wave of nostralia swept over there.
I thought of the many years that we'd spent together,
of the exciting adventures that we had shared during the
old days.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In Baker Street. Beautiful, quite beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Thank you Watson.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
M M. You look uncommonly wistfullyer Jan, you're thinking of
the old days, yes, Holmes, I was so was I
so well. Those were exciting times. But it's company to
think that now we will not be disturbed by a
dangling doorbell follows by some poor.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Devil in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Nowadays, my greatest excitements are connected with the segregation of
the Queen Bee and the night time proclivities of Charles Augustus,
my Tomcat.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I still find it hard to think of you in
retirement homes. Do you ever consider returning to active practice?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Or I consider it occasionally and then reject the idea
and the should work only up to the peak of visibility.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I'm past nine.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Nonsense homes just alert as.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Over you were mentally, perhaps they're not physically.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Would we consider handling a small problem in in England with.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Its personal problem that defects you, My dear Chap. You
know I'll do anything I can.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's exactly my problem, Homes. But it was a charming
young girl on the train.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
We we got into conversation, and you don't age in, Chap.
You are just as susceptible as ever.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
No, no, no, no, Homes, let me finish. She said
that you knew her mother quite well.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Her mother Allen, Oh, yes, Deve's what is it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm sorry to disturb you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Your man said I might come in my master, mister
Linton Stanley instructed me to deliver the snow.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He yes, also instructed me to wait for a reply.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What confounded infidence? You said, master, that there's no answer
to this letter.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
But he told me I must get a reply.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
If you don't, stan Standard that I will instruct my
solicitors to reply to his message in due course.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Sir, that's all, dealers. You may go pretty good, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
What did the note say? Hum?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Read it for yourself.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Keep yourselthy, these where they belong. One of my guests
is stung yesterday. If this happens again, I'll have the
police run you out of his place. Lord, an offensive letter.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The man himself is even more offensive.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
He's a retired manufacturer who thinks that his immense wealth
entitles him to domineer over the local residence.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh but let not.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Spoil a nice sunny afternoon by discussing him. Please continue
with the sorry of the young lady that you've met
on the Yes, I'd like to.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
All little things seems in dreadful trouble. I wish you
would help her.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You say that she told you were her mother knew me? Yes,
what's her name?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Norton? I really Norton Norton.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't seem to recall. Over the course, where is
the girl Watson?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
She's staying at the Red Lne in the village.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then ring her on the telephone and ask her to
come over and get as fast as she can. Of
course I'll help her.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I'm related at Holmes. But what made you change your
mind so suddenly?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It's a shock that you can't remember. I really Adler,
sure you haven't forgotten. In the case you call the
scandal in Bohemia, eye was completely fool while Julius.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
This is, of course you always referred to as the woman.
But how does Irene Notton fit into the picture?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I really Idler married a barrister named Jeffrey. Tell miss
Notton to come at wets Watson. She's the daughter of
the woman.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Mister Holmes. I had too much about you from mother.
She says, you're the cleverest man in England.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Your mother flatters me, my dear child, She herself was
much more tell than I.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
In fact, yes, did she ever tell you about the
the circumstances under which we met.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Mister Holmes, though she did tell me that you were
a witness when she and my father were met.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Very true, my dear, Very true. Though the o ken
was a little there.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, I will we say unusual. Look here it's sir
Golden's oprin. I wear on my watch chains and a
mentor of that day. I also have a charming photograph
of your mother.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
You must have known her quite well.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
How about telling mister Holmes about your troubles? Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Reminiscences are charming that they can wait until we've dealt
with your problems.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Mister Holmes, I'm being blackmailed.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh I'm sorry to hear it by whom by a.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Neighbor of yours, mister Lyttle Stanley.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Do you know him?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes, yes, indeed I do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Matter of fact, mister Holmes received the most offensive note
from the gentleman less than an hour ago.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What hold does mister Stanley have over you, my dear?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
He has some letters and rather indiscreet editors of mine
that I wrote to a friend of his last year.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How did he obtain these letters, Miss Norton?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
He must have stolen them.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I don't know how but when I staying in his
house a few weeks ago, he told me that he
had them and asked five thousand pounds for their return.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And why should he consider our letters eaten in discreet
letters worth so large a son?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I'm engaged to be married to Lord Western's son. That
awful man didn't Stanley knows that if my fiance saw
the letters, the marriage would never take.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Plans I must see extremely compromising.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
They aren't, really, But I was much younger when I
wrote some in facts. I was only seventeen. I'm afraid
they could easily be misconstrued.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Have you told your mother?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh no, she'd never understand. She might surprise you on that.
I think, how about your father?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Daddy's a barrister. You can imagine how straight is easy
about the whole thing. That's why I came to you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh I see you. She will feel that I am
not so well? We say, straight, lady, of course you aren't.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Mother's told me about you. And in any case, I've
read doctor Watson's story.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
What is my dear fellow on your stories will lend
me in Celia trouble one of these days?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
What are you suggesting mister Holmes can do for him
get the letters back for me?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But how steal them?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
No? No, no, mydear, what's Dubby Shocksnorton is a fourth
right girl?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I come out before her? It's mister Holmes.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
You can't say you won't help me.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, I don't think that. I can't say it. In
any case, I have a slight personal score to settle with.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Mister Linton Stanley myself. He's rude and has no understanding be.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And how are you going to steal the letters?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That problem requires a thought, old chap.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I can tell you how to do it, mister.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hol This is delightful, my dear.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You explained the problem and also the way of solving it.
How easy a detective's work might be if all plans
were equally helpful.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Tell me what is your plan?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Tomorrow? The servants half day off at mister Lytton Stanley's.
He will be alone there during the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
How do you know that fact?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
My maid was keeping company, as they say, with Beavis
the butler when I was staying there a few weeks ago.
She found out everything from him. My letters are kept
in a filigree box in his.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Desk with your enterprise. My dear, I'm surprised that you
didn't try and open the desk to sol.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I did, but it's very still and has a combination
of hard However, I'm sure that you and doctor Watson
can think of some way of getting the letters, particularly
if mister Litton Stanley's alone.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
In the house. We shall do our best, Miss Morton,
har must.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Be one thing, though, both of you.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
What's that? Don't read the letters? Will you?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I'm really rather ashamed of writing.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Course we won't. You're both so sweet to me.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
How can I thank you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Would be a little time that you are you could
do us to say that? Of course?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Your mother had a beautiful voice, I recall. I wonder
if you would hit her talents.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I do sing, though I've never done so professionally like mother, and.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I've never played the violin professionally. But perhaps sent between
us we could give Watson a little concern the.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Life flow, Dear, we can't do anything until tomorrow anywhere?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
What would you like to sing?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Song?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
More? William? Remarkably appropriate.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So of the from.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Tonight music and Tomorrow A touch of Daylight robbery.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Dear old Watson, your disguise is really excellent.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I must confess I'm a little APPREHENSI.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wont have there's no need to be.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I assure you you as doctor Hamish, and I as
the referend LB are calling mister pen Stanley ostensibly in
search of a contribution for my charity hospital that you
are in charge of.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What could this imply?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
What made you decide on the role of the clergyman?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It should simplify our entrance at the house.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I must confess that a rare touch of sentiments
pumped at the choice of my disguise.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
How do sentiments enteranty.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Or surely you remember that it was in the role
of a simple minded, nonconformist clergyman that I once attempted
to deceive Miss Norton's mother.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's right, I've forgotten. That woman really fascinates you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Renny Adler was one woman I've always regarded with unbounded admiration,
even though she was a criminal.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But the matter of this fellow, are you ready? Yes,
you have the equipment I mentioned to you in my pocket.
That chap let's be off if his home mother devil
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doesn't the answer the door.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Come, Come, come, my dear reverend Apple for passing your
languages is hardly approved.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I'm sorry, doctor Heimmish, that comes someone.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, mister Litton Stander, that's my name.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
The nine is Apple and this is my friend.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Doctor Haines id to me. I've heard a great deal, Bilky.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What can I do for you if we're to come
in from her medle explain our mission very well.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
I'm into the study.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We're raising a subscription list for charity Hospital of battle Way,
just across the Downs. You're a prominent residence here. We
thought that you'd like to donate a few guineas.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
I'm really not very interested. I've given as much to
charity this year.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
As I can afford.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well, it's a fine courser.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I'm giving my medical services three days a week, and
the Reverend Appleby is done his saviss two?
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Who else has contributed to this time?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Your neighbors, sir. We just came from the bee farm
over the Downs. The owner, mister Holmes gave us a
check for five guinas.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Holmes gave you five guineas did he have?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Very nice gentleman, mister Holmes. We're propos him to name
a world in the hospital after him.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Is this list of subscribers going to be published in
the paper.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Oh yes, oh yes, mister Bitton stands.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'll give you, sir, if you say, Hugh, I'll get
my check book fits in this desk?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Now who do I make this check payable to?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Will still.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Any heat? Watson iPhone doesn't take long? The ling of
the desk. That's it. Do see philipgree box in there?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Huh there it is splendid. Holmes, don't open it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You promise that you would, just wish to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
To make sure pull us there, mister Sherlock Holme, Oh no,
don't move. I have a revolver, and don't turn around.
Place the box on the table. Mister Holmes, put your
hands up, gentlemen, both of you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I know that vices dealers, but that's quite correct, Olive.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
If you need pull a revolvers, is your your muster.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm not in the least interested in my master's health,
doctor Watson. In fact, if you were dead, I should
be delighted.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And what are you up to leave us?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm taking advantage of a situation, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I've been trying to open that desk.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Boots.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
After such kindness on your part, sir, I hate to
seem ungracious, but I'm pretty afraid I shall have to
kill you. To kill both of you, Doctor Watson's story
will continue in just a second, So I'm just going
to remind you that good food always tastes better when
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served with good wine. And if you like a red wine,
say with steak or meat of any kind, you love
Petrie California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a white wine,
say with chicken or fish, then by all means, get
Petree California so turned.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh, and look, if opinion is.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Divided in your family, if some of you like a
red wine and some like white, yes is obvious. Don't
buy one, buy two.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Remember that, huh.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Don't buy one, buy two, but do buy Petrie. Then
you know it's good, the doctor. That was a fine
place to break off your story, with the butler pointing
a gun at your backs, and you and Sherlock homes
with your hands above your heads.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What happened next?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, at least you didn't get killed.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You wouldn't be sitting here in California night telling me
the story.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
But supposing I'd take you back in the story to
the point where I looked off well, all.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Right, then take me back down it take me back
very well.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
He stood their homes, and iye our hands above our heads,
as Divas said.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How greateful I am that you were open the desk
for me after such kindness on your part, Sir, I
hate to seem ungracious, but I'm greatfully afraid I'm going
to have to kill you both because I just like
to APPEs stupid at such a dramatic moment.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
But why is it near to kill us?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For months, I have been waiting for an opportunity to
steal the Kitman Jar Emerald, and now you have done
it for me, sir, and presented me with a perfect
galibar kit the jar Emerald. Who come now, Miss Pomes.
You know the treasures in this house as well as
I do. Apart from the emerald, there's a superb genie.
Fetch a fine price in the right Mandy.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
We aren't here after any valuables, my good man.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Please don't call me your good man, doctor Watson. It's
patronizing and untrue. In any case, sir, whether you were
here after the valuables or not makes no difference. I've
caught you both red handed.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You're complictly in my power.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Gentlemen, I can't steal the treasures I sperson and pretend
to be responsible exactly, Sir, I shall kill you both
secree for objects appeal to me, and when my master
agains consciousness, I should explain that I found three men
burgling the house, that I killed two of them while
the third got away.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
With the loot.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Who will be able to die by word to.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Be regarded as a hero, then might even have my
salary raised. Watson, I'm afraid this is the end.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Door chap, a sordid way to die.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
God adds at least two esteep courtesy of allowing us
to face the farthing squad.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Will him very well?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Gentlemen, turn round, but don't try any tricks.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
One last request, and what is it, sir? I'm beaten,
and I admit it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm getting old, but in my headay, I crossed the
swords with some of the greatest criminals in Europe.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
My life has been attempted many times, but I've always escaped.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
If this is to be my sponsor, at least give
me the privilege of shaking the hand of a man
who has at last bested me. Well said, I feel
that I'm stepping a little out of my station. But
I suppose the situation is unusual. I hope don't object
to the left hand, Sir, I'll keep the.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Revolver in my right.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Very well, Divers, you are good bye, mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Goodbye, Divers, and my congratulations, but my congratulations for being
a fool. Well on home, never getting old Watson. But
I've not lost my skill of barat So.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You went over your shoulder in a flash. Fortunately the
bullet went wise.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Watson struck the desk as it fell.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You'll be unconscious for a while.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Good that, I think, will take the pause of cursing
this desk drawer. Then want him to be exposed to
perfect temptation when he comes to how we are?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I shouldn't we get into touch with the police?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Home?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Please qu'scoton ol follow?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
After all we are bird lesson were in disguise is
two facts that would be hard to explain satisfactorily.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And open with at to the pea pharma soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You suppose you're right, Miss Notton'll be waiting for us.
Then tell her what happened. Poor girl. I'm fraid she's
in for something of a shock.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
It's the home, doctor Watson. I'm so glad to see
you back again. Did you get the filigree box?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yes, Miss Norton, here it is at homes. I didn't
know that you, Watson. Why not open it? Miss Norton?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Will I open it?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
My dear? They may not be love letters beside it,
but there's a note. Why don't you read it to us?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Let this be a warning Norton. Crime does not pay
if you don't believe me at your mother? Sincerely, shall
I comes?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Mister Holmes, you knew mer secret, hold it not all
the time, but I realized that as soon as I'd
opened the filigree box.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What on earth you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
This?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Norton was under the impression that she could use me
as a cat for as a dupe to commit a
burglary for her.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I still don't understand. Home.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You will remember she asked us to promise not to
open the box, But.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You did, sir. Just before the fellow Helme, I saup
with a revolver. What was inside the.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Barn impressive greenstone which I knew to be the Kitman
jar Emerald.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I slipped it back into mister little Standley's.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Desk and locked it, rocked the box yere because I
wanted to see your expression, Miss Norton as you opened it, Scott,
and I thought you would pull a thing in trouble.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You have to save yourself, younglady.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
That I'm terribly sorry, mister Holmes, terribly Harry. It seems
like a wildly exciting idea. But I didn't really.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Mean to see you of course not no, no, of
course you didn't lent me to see it for you,
Miss Norton. I'm convinced you knew that your mother once
outwitted me, and you presumed to think that you could
do the same. I should turn you over to the police.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Please don't, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I certainly could, but I'm not going to for two reasons. First,
you're young and impressionable, and this can teach you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And in the second place, I have a strange.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Admiration for your mother. But I want you, Miss Norton,
that you have had a narrow escape, a very narrow.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Escape, mister Holmes. Before I go, there's one favor I
want to ask you, really, what is it? Could I
keep this filigree box with your note inside it. It
would be a reminder all my life of how we met.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
What do you say, Watson, your box to give as
to your fellow.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's quite true, but I fail to see how we
can return it now without disclosing our own share in
the attempted robbery.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
In any case, I don't like mister Lipton Stanley.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
We might indulge in a little petty last name with
doctor feeling too guilty.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Very well, Miss Morton, you may keep the box.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
I shall owe his treasure it. Thank you. Good Bye,
Doctor Watson, don't think too badly of me. Good night,
mister sher Lock.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Home you know homes. I must say you were surprisingly
(22:08):
lenient with that girl. You suppose her mother put her
up clothing.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That possibility had occurred to me. Hello, and yet I
have a feeling that come in doors open?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Will you expected? Gott?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
It's looking believing, sir. This is an unexpected honor Holmes.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
We haven't been the best of friends, I know, but
you've got to help me now. I'm in serious trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh indeed, wont you sit down? This is my friend
of what I do? And now, sir, and what is
your trouble?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I've been robbed, Holmes, robbed what the stone? Well, my
greatest pleasure. The Kipmens are emeralds to remove from his chase,
and then mysteriously returned loose in my jest afterwards.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
But there's a priceless Chillney missing.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Have you.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Have you any eye hear who the Thurgos might be
or it was a gang.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm sure that's a couple of disguise as a clergureman
and a doctor came into the house on the pretext
of raising money for some hospital, and they overpowered.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Me with chlorophorm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh, dear me, dear me, I'm very I'm plessing for you. Yes,
when I came to I found my bucket Jebbers lying
beside me in a pool of blood. The brave fellow
had wrestled with the thigs, but they got away and
he's in the hospital now. Holmes, you've got to help me.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The kitman jar emerald was returned, you say, but a
Chillini is missing.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yes, it's an it's filigree box in which I had
kept the emerald, a phillygree box. Yes, it's a genuine Chellini.
It's worth several thousand pounds. Homes you must help me
solve this business. I'm sorry, mister little Stanley, but I'm
afraid I can't help you. I retired, yes, and I
intend to remain in retirement.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Good night, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Not all, but I will pay you any fee within reason.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
My decision is final, sir, good night.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I might have known I wouldn't get any help from you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Holmes, she fools again, stares the little devil. She knew
that boxters at Tellina all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You don't seem very angry with all Ah.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I should be, but I'm not. What splendid audacity, what
a superper nerve the child has?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
But you must get the box back from her?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I shall, watson, I shall, or rather I shall persuade
Deepest to do it for me as the price of
our silence.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
How can he get it back?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Remember that he walks out as Miss Norton's maid.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I am certain that when he explains his predicament, he
can prevail upon her to steal the box from her mistress,
so that it may be returned to which white colona.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
It's a good idea that, George Holmes, this not is
a chip of old block, all right?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yes, wats and cheers, and it makes me wonder for
the birth. Ah, I wonder, my dear Chap, how long
I can remain in retirement such worthy antagonist at large
As a challenge, it's an irresistible challenge, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Doctor Watson. I just can't get over the way you
and mister Holmes. Let that girl Irene was at her name,
pull of wool over your eyes? Why she really twisted
you around her little fingers.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I like to make extremely positive statements, but I'm sure
that if you were in my shoes, I really would
not only have twisted you around her little finger that
she had you ruin about hoops standing on your head.
You mean she was that beautiful, mister, butto she was
so beautiful that she'd make you forget all about Petrie.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Wine, Doctor Watson, No girl is that beautiful? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
How young you really are?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Maybe so?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But there are lots of pretty girls in this world
and only one Patree wine. That's because there's only one
Patrie family that's been making wine since the eighteen hundreds.
And believe me, because the Patrick business has always been
family owned and operated, they've been able to hand on
down from father to son, from father to son. The
highly skilled art of making fine wine, and those generations
(26:07):
of wine making add up to a lot of experience.
The Patrie family really knows how to turn luscious California
grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. That's why, no matter what
type wine you wish, you can't go wrong looking for
the label that says p E.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
T R.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I Petrie, because Patrey took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what story are you planning to tell us
next week?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Well, now, next week, mister Bartell's the day before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
So I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
An adventure that took place many years ago and involved
homes and myself in one of the most fantastic Christmas
Eve situations in which we ever found ourselves.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I think you like the story. I call it the
Night before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That sounds well, doctor.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
By the way, before I comes to Barcola, I'd like
to remind our listeners there's no better way to spend money.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
And to spend it on Christmas seals.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Every pen is spent on Christmas seals not only helps
cure tuberculosis, but it also helps prevent it right in
your own community.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Your purchases of Christmas steals in the past have saved
thousands of lives.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Keep saving lives by all the Christmas seals you can
afford this year, now, won't you.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's story A Scandal in Bohemia. Music is
by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of
Metro Goldwyn Mayor and mister Bruce through the courtesy of
Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in the Sherlock
Holms series. Basil Rathbone's new Columbia record album, Robin Hood,
(27:57):
is now available at your music store. The Petree Wine
Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune again
next week, same time, same station. Sherlock Holmes comes to
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you from our Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is Harry Bartel.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Saying good night for the Petrie family. For a solid
hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most
of these same stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane,
followed immediately by Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting SYS
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