August 9, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
No doubt a pair of pass may they were found
in the dead man's right hand.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There can be no question that she snatched them from
the face of the assassin. Yeah, I see them till.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They tell you any new homes Inspector, you have your notebook,
of course, pay take it out and write as I dictate.
Wanted a woman of good address, attired like a lady.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
She has a remarkably thick nose.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
She has a pucket forehead, appearing expressions and probably rounded shoulders.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
By George's Master's incredible.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The great mind of my friend Sherlock Holmes never ceased
to amaze me.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
My name is Watson, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now let me.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Locate the exact page and I will tell you about
the case of the Golden persnay a moment, please.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I think that all the cases which killed three.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Massive volumes containing our work for the early eighteen ninety four,
the case which is the most conducive to dis sale
the peculiar powers which my friend Holmes was famous, was
there for the Golden paras.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well Holmes. He Inspector Stanley Hopkins to see you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Ah Hopkins, Come in, my dear fair da miss hers.
It must be something important.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That has brought you out in such a gale. It
is in Davis Helmes. Did you see anything of the
Yoxley case in the latest editions? I've seen nothing later
than the fifteenth century. Today, let us hear about it.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Seven years ago this country house, Oxley Old Place, was
taken by an elderly man named Professor Korum ex named Bult.
Keeping to his bait half the time, here's the reputation,
and there, being a very learned man, he found it
necessarily about a year ago to engage as secretary. The
first two of the driver not successes, but the third,
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mister Willoughby Smith, was a very young man, straight from university.
He seemed to be just what his employer wanted. I
see his testimonials from the first. He was a decent, quiet,
hard working fellow. Nothing against him at all. And yet
this is the lad who is met his death this
morning in the Professor's study.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Dear, I take a choke in and tell us he's
been murdered. The circumstances can point only to that. I see. Well,
you'd better tell us a little more about the household
to begin way.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you were to search all England, I don't suppose
you'd find a household more self contained or free from
ouside influences. The professor was buried in his work. Young
smith knew nobody in the neighborhood, and the two women
had nothing to take them from the house, although the
garden gates only a hundred yards from the main nun
of the Chatham Road.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And just a moment, these two women, who are they?
Who is an.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Elderly housekeeper, Missus Marker and a maid Susan tars Let's
see this, says Susan Tartan was the only person who
was saying anything positive about the matter.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Between eleven and twelve, I was hanging some curtains in
the upstairs front bedroom.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Sir, where is the professor at this time?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh, Professor Korn was still in bed when the weather
study ide ever gets up before midday, Sir, I heard
mister Willow Business pass along the passage and go down
to the study just below where I was working. A
minute or so later there was a preadful cries, then.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Nothing, just silence.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What do you do, sir?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I ran downstairs to the study and there he was stretched.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Out on the floor.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
He seemed to be dead, but then he opened his
eyes and spoke to me. He said, the professor it
was she.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You mean hate, sure for the professor it was fake, No, sir,
just like I told you, it was she. Did you
hear anything else at all?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I saw the knife set, look the one you've got there.
It used to be on the professor's desk. It was
lying on the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Thank you, Susan, now, missus Marco, Yes, sir, you came
on the scene too, I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh, but I wasn't in time to hear him speak, sir.
He was dead when I come.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What did you do? Well?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I left Susan with him and I run up to
the professor's room. He was sitting up in.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Bed, very upset. He was, I said, oh, yes, something trouble. Well,
he's heard something going on. Mister Smith's screaming, and he
knew something awful and happened.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So well.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He sent me to tell the gardener to go for
the police off.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Local police said, wife something guard. I was down there
in a jippie. I go strict orders for no one
to walk on the paths leading to the house or
move anything inside. I don't mind.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Saying it was a splendid chance of putting your theories
into practice.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Mister Sherlock Holmes, there was really nothing wanting about this
case except mister Sherlock Holmes, well, what sort of a
job did you make of it? The question I asked
myself was how did the murderer get into the house
and out again? That's room.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It must have been by the path and the garden door.
Otherwise Susan would have run into him as she came downstairs.
So I directed my attention to the garden path. There'd
be plenty of rain before the time of the murder,
then there should certainly be signed so many footmarks, and
where there there were no footmarks on the bath.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So I next examined the corridor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's lined with cocoanut matting and taken no impression of
any kind. This brought me into the study itself. It's
a scatterly fournished room. The main article is a large
writing table with a fixed bureau. The drawers of the
bureau were open, but the cupt between them locked.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Tad anything been tempered with. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The professor assured me that nothing was missing as to
the body.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of the young man Willoughby Smith.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The stab was on the right side of the neck
and from behind, so it's almost impossible if.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It could have been self afflicted. Is that any of
my evidence?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There is something most important? Yes, not that a pair
of past me. They were found in the dead man's
right hand.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They weren't he is.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He had excellent size and there can be no question
as he snatched them from the face of the assasine.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
May I see them? Did h thank cure?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Very handsome, solid girl. I'll just try them on. Oh,
dear me, extraordinary. Will I tell you anything? Hold a
great deal, inspector. You have your notebook of course for years,
then pray take it out and write as I dictate
very well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Times I'm ready right down.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Wanted a woman of good address, attired like a lady.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
She has a remarkably thick nose, with eyes which are
set close upon either side of it. She has a
pucket forehead, appearing expression and probably rounded shoulders.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There are indications that she has.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Had recourse to an optician at least twice during the
last few months.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians
are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in
tracing that my George is Marks's incredible. But meanwhile, have
you anything more to tell us about the case? Nothing? Stones,
I think you know as much as I do now,
probably more. Such a such a pointless crime, that's what
beats me. No one has suggested a ghost of a motive.
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I suppose you can't, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Ah, there are not in a position to help you,
as I suppose you wants us to come out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But if he's not asking too much, there's a train
from charing Cross to chatter at six in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We should be a joxty old place between eight and
nine then we shall take it. Well, it's nearly one
now and we'd best get a few Hurstley.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll stay here and I don't you've managed on the
sofa in front of the fire.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's a very good idea. And I like my spirit
lamp and give you a cup of coffee before we
start special anywhere the wind was dropped, that's really one.
Anywhars knows her nothing now reports of any strangers about
knows her. I've just been asking a gun at the
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railway station. If you inquired at the innus and lodgings.
There's no one who can't be a coage it for her.
It's only a reasonable walk to chat him. Anyone could
stay there. I've been noticed you all right, Kelly. It
wasn't very good, sir, but this is the year of
the gardens. Sound someone has passed along here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Our lady must have picked her steps carefully, and she'd
have left the track on the path on one hand,
on the soft flower dead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
On the other. Yes, she must have been a cool customer.
You say, must have come back this way as well.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
There's no other way. It was a very remarkable performance,
very remarkable. Well, I think they've exhausted the path.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Let us now go indoors to the scene of the crime.
The position is this.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The garden door is usually kept open, so the lady
had nothing to do but walk in, the idea of
murder was not in her mind, or she'd have provided
herself for the weapon instead of having to take up
the knife from this writing table. Here she came along
the corridor leading no places.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Upon the coconut messy. Then she found herself in this study.
What does she do? She goes over to the writing table.
What for? Not for a living in the drawers for
nothing is missing. No, it was for something in this bureau.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So what's this scratch beside the keyhole? Why didn't you
tell me of this? Hopkins? I noticed it, mister Holmes.
But you always find scratches around a gee.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Home, Watson. Just give missus Marker a shot, William. This
scratch is recent, Hopkins, quite recent. See how the brass
shines where it's cut through my limbses. I see what
you mean.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
An old scratch will be the same color as the surfaces.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Marker.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Oh, missus Marker, did you dousk this puireau yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Did you notice this scratch where? Sir? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Oh no, that wasn't there yesterday. I'm sure of that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ah. Who has the key of this puireau?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
The professor keeps it on his watch chain.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I see.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I understand that this passage connects only with the Professor's
room and the garden door.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
That's right, sir, There are no other doors offered.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Thank you, missus Marker. That is all, thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Making any progress returns certainly, this is what I see.
The lady enters the room, advances to the bureau and
either opens it or prize to do so.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
While she is thus engaged, young.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Willoughby Smith comes in in her hurry to withdraw the key.
She makes this scratch upon the door. Smith seizes her,
and she snatches up the nearest object, which happens to
be the knife, to spike at him and make him
let go his own.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The blow is a table one. She escapes, either with
or without the object for which he's come. Yes, that
seems fair enough, and now it's time we made the
acquaintance of the professor. Certainly, Oh so the college daughter.
His room is also lined with coconut mercy. This is
very important.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Indeed, I don't mean I understand you don't see any
bearing upon the case.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, well, I don't insist, no doubt I'm wrong. Now
come and introduced Peter the place.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Please excuse the atmosphere, gentlemen, I fear I am a
slave to tobacco. Are you a smoker, mister Holmes, Yes, indeed,
then pray take a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh thank you, Dr Watson, thank you. No, I have
especially prepared by ionogies of Alexandria. He sends me a
thousand at a time.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
But I agreed to say I have to arrange for
a fresh supply every fourth.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Indeed, very bad, I ad met. But an old man
has few pleasures, and tobacco my work.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
But now the only tobacco announs what a fatal interruption
to my work?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Maybe know its subject?
Speaker 9 (12:41):
It is an analysis of the documents found in the
Coptic monasteries of Syria and Egypt. It is a work
which will cut deep at the very foundations of revealed religion.
But who have foreseen anything so terrible happening to the
young man?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What do you think of the better? Mister Holt five.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Have not yet made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I shall indeed be indebted to you if you can
throw a light where all is so dark to a
poor bookworm in Flida like myself.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How such a blow is paralyzing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
But you are a man of action, and we are
a fortunate indeed having you at outside or but do
take another.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Cigarette, and dear, you are even the quicker smoker. But
I am.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Myself, I am a connoisseur, and these an excellent cigarette.
A professor Coham, Oh what do you imagine? This poor
fellow meant by his.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Last words the professor.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
It was she, mister Holmes, O mate Susan, a simple girl.
I fancy the poor fellow murmured simmon, coherent, delirious words.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And she twisted them into this meaningless message. The eyeglasses,
where did they come from?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Them?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Inspector?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
We are aware that love tokens may take a strange shape,
but a fan, the glove, a pair of lame.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Tell me, Professor Cordham, what is in the cupboard of
the bureau in your study?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Oh, nothing for a thief, A family, papers and diplomas
from universities.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That have honored me. I think scare is the key.
Oh look for yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh well, no, I I hardly think it could help me.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, here is your key, professor, Thank you. I promise
you shall not be disturbed again until two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
All right, shall come again then if I may and
report anything which may have happened in the US, by by.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
All means, by yourself. Oh, do take a few of
these cigarettes with you? Look there, Oh, thank you? Well
have your clues.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What are you thinking, mister hous It depends upon those
cigarette size.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Man, Perhaps I much a mistake on the cigarette the cigarettes.
I've never seen you smoke so much in.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
My life, except your pipe of course, yes, and I
hope I shall never help you again.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Watson.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It comes to good, Missus Marker, did a person to
give us a few minutes instruct this conversation, Missus Marker, y,
mister Hols, I've been wanting to congratulate you on the
way you keep up the house.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh, sir, No, I was just saying as much to
my friend, wasn't I? Yes, yes, sir, high they common
the ball.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
That's very good of you, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm sure it must be especially difficult to be professors,
but king as much as he does, you know, all
over the place and so forth.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh here, quite right, sir. Does it never affect his health?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
His health? Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Well, that I can't say.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Sorry, but he's epithite. Surely such head is money must
kill the epidite.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
He is variable about how much he eats.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'll say that I should think so.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
This morning, for instance, I'll wager he took no breakfast,
and he'll certainly there's no lunch after all the cigarettes
I saw him consume.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
While you're out there, sir. Oh huh, yet, especially big.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Breakfast this morning, I don't know when I've known him
take a better one and he's already a good dish
of cutlass for his lunch. Mind you, I'm surprised, sir,
after I saw mister Smith lying on that floor yesterday,
I've hardly been able to look at food myself.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Would you certainly surprised me? Missus Parker, did you have
a special luncheon to prepare? We mustn't keep you must face.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
No, sir, I was been getting along.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Note good day, just good day, homes. You're working something up?
I know the signs am I what?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh well, at two o'clock we shall return to our friend,
the professor and see where my chain of reasoning is taking.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Very punctual, indeed, gentleman. And now, mister Holmes, I'm sure
you're looking forward to a few more of my cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Aha, it's very kind of you, professor, not at all,
take the tin and help you beg your pardon. This
is my own puns in it alone, know it now?
What it was my fault? I insist that you mean son,
have even round as far as the what case is
the corner are there? I think we have them? Yes,
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I I think there's everything clear that now. Oh, you
shouldn't have troubled mister Holmes. But tell me now, have
you solved this mystery of ours? Yet? Yes, I have
thought that I solved.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
It, indeed by strolling about in the garden here here,
when this instant you are joking. Surely, mister Sherlock Holmes, Professor.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Coreham, what your motives are or what exact part you
play in this strange business, I'm not yet able to say.
In a few minutes, I shall probably get it from
your own lips. Meanwhile, I will reconstruct what has passed
so that you may know the information which I still
require as you wish.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yes, a lady entered your study with the.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Intention of possessing herself of certain documents from your bureau.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
She had a key of her own.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You gave me an opportunity of examining yours, and I
do not find on it that slight discoloration which the stretch.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Would have produced.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You were not an accessory therefore, and she evidently came
without your knowledge to rob you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
This is most interesting and instructive.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
But surely, having traced this lady so far, you can
also say what has become of her.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I will endeavor to do so.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
In the first plase, she was seized by your secretary
and stabbed in in order to escape this catastrophe I
am inclined to regard as an unhappy accident. Horrified by
what she had done, she rushed wildly away from the sea. Unfortunately,
she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as
she was extremely short sighted, she was really helpless. Without
she ran down a corridor which she imagined to be
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that by which she'd come both the lines of Coconut Matty,
and too late realized.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That she had taken the wrong one. She couldn't go back.
She must go on. She pushed open a door and
found herself in your room.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Oh all, very fine, mister Holmes, But there is one
little floor in a splendid theory.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I was myself in my room.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
I am aware of that, Professor Korum, and you need
to say that I could lie in bed and not
be aware that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
A woman had entered my room. I never said, sir,
you were aware of it. You recognize that you aided
her to escape. You are mad, mad that I helped
to escape. But then where does she know?
Speaker 12 (19:28):
She is there behind that book Keith in the corner.
You are right, you are quite right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I am here.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I arrest you in the Queen's name for the murder
of Willoughby Smith. And I warn you that he is, sir,
and your prisoner.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
I could hear everything, and I know that you have
learned the truth. It was I who killed that young man.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Then you really you are right, you, sir, to say
that it was an accident. I just don't even know that.
I heard a knife in my hand.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
In my despair, I snatched the nearest thing from the
table and struck at him to make him.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Let me gone. I am sure that is the proof.
If she bet sit down a moment home, she looks
at you. Thank you. I have only a little time here,
and I must tell you the whole truth. Can you
take this chat? Thank you. I am this man's wife.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
He is not an Englishman. He is a Russian.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm gonna tell you his name. The Lord.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
I wonder why you cling so hard to that wretched
life of your saggey.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It has brought no good to anyone, least about yourself. Pray,
let us hear what you have to say. I was
a foolish girl when I married this old man. In Russia.
We were reformists revolutioniss. Then came a time of trouble.
A police officer was killed and in all of the
series online and earned a great reward.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
My husband betrayed his companions and me with some raman.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Uhm, it's that was one and that say it was.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Noble, unselfish, loving everything.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
My husband was not. He hated violence. He was forever
writing to dissuade me from it. If my husband found.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
The letters, which would have saved that man and me
from Sibelia, he hid the man, so we were convicted.
I was released not long ago, but Alexey is still
that convict in the salt mine.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Think of that. You own visison and I could have
killed you in this room. But that's bad you. You
were always a noble.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
I came to this country with the object of getting
those letters, which would set a lext day free.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I knew you.
Speaker 13 (21:37):
Would never give them to me, he said, gay, so
I engaged a private.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Detective who came here as a secretary. He found where
the papers were kept, then got an impression of the
Then he would go no further than debt here.
Speaker 13 (21:50):
I took my courage in both hands and came to
get the papers for rest, and I succeeded.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
But that was her cost man's words were the Professor
it was she. Do I understand then that Psmith knew
who you were? By chance?
Speaker 14 (22:06):
I admit him near the gate that morning and asked
him where Professor called him lived.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Exactly in his last breath, Smith's pride to send a
vessons to the Professor, for it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Was she, for she whom he adjudged custody. Just let
me finish quickly.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
After I had chused the young man, I ran blindly
into this room.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
My husband spoke of giving me up.
Speaker 13 (22:27):
I threatened that if he did, I should give him
away to our party other later.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
For that reason I fo no.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
As I he let me hide in process.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Behind the bookcase.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
By anyone approached, he was able to give me half
off his owns.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He is agreed that when the police left us, I
should slip away by night and come back no more. Gentlemen.
Speaker 13 (22:52):
Here here are the letters will save Alex, say, I
confide them to your honest yesslemen, and son justice a fool.
Speaker 14 (23:04):
Eating my hiding place.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I have taken pos.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Range a simple case, my dear Wilson, and yet in
some ways an instructive one.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It hinged from the outset upon the plants name. Without them,
I'm not sure that we could ever reached our solution.
But what was all read about the footmarks on the
grass bird? When Hopkins here asked me to believe that
the intruder, having lost her powerful eyeglasses, could escape by
the way she had come, treading carefully along a narrow
grass strip, I set it down as impossible. I was
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forced to consider the hypothesis that she had remained within
the house. On perceiving the similarity of the two corridors,
it became clear that she must have entered the professor's room,
for there was no other hiding place for her.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The device of a ressess behind the bookcase is a
common one in old libraries.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
I therefore starch a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I dropped the ash all over the floor in front
of the bookcase.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
When we had ascertained that the professor's consumption of food
had increased, we returned to his room, whereby upsetting the
cigarette box, I obtained an excellent view of the.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Floor, so you were able to see from places in
the ash.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Did she had come out of a retreat while we
were absent remarkable homes ah?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But here we are at sharing cloths.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well, Hopkins, I congratulate you on having brought your case
to a successful conclusion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You are going to the yard.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That's Watson. I think you and I will drive together
to the Russian embassy. We have a small puss. The
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Case of the Golden pass Ney was one of the
Sherlock Holmes stories.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name in real life
is Norman Shelley. My friend Carlton Hobbes paid Sherlock Holmes,
and I was doctor Watson. And our script for this
BBC production from London was by Michael Howdy. You don't
seem to see so many past their birth these days,
you know, eyeglasses that clip on your nose. But I
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hope we will be seeing each other about again soon.
For more of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
No doubt a pair of pass may they were found
in the dead man's right hand.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There can be no question that she snatched them from
the face of the assassin. Yeah, I see them till.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They tell you any new homes Inspector, you have your notebook,
of course, pay take it out and write as I dictate.
Wanted a woman of good address, attired like a lady.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
She has a remarkably thick nose.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
She has a pucket forehead, appearing expressions and probably rounded shoulders.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
By George's Master's incredible.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The great mind of my friend Sherlock Holmes never ceased
to amaze me.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
My name is Watson, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now let me.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Locate the exact page and I will tell you about
the case of the Golden persnay a moment, please.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I think that all the cases which killed three.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Massive volumes containing our work for the early eighteen ninety four,
the case which is the most conducive to dis sale
the peculiar powers which my friend Holmes was famous, was
there for the Golden paras.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well Holmes. He Inspector Stanley Hopkins to see you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Ah Hopkins, Come in, my dear fair da miss hers.
It must be something important.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That has brought you out in such a gale. It
is in Davis Helmes. Did you see anything of the
Yoxley case in the latest editions? I've seen nothing later
than the fifteenth century. Today, let us hear about it.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Seven years ago this country house, Oxley Old Place, was
taken by an elderly man named Professor Korum ex named Bult.
Keeping to his bait half the time, here's the reputation,
and there, being a very learned man, he found it
necessarily about a year ago to engage as secretary. The
first two of the driver not successes, but the third,
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mister Willoughby Smith, was a very young man, straight from university.
He seemed to be just what his employer wanted. I
see his testimonials from the first. He was a decent, quiet,
hard working fellow. Nothing against him at all. And yet
this is the lad who is met his death this
morning in the Professor's study.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Dear, I take a choke in and tell us he's
been murdered. The circumstances can point only to that. I see. Well,
you'd better tell us a little more about the household
to begin way.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you were to search all England, I don't suppose
you'd find a household more self contained or free from
ouside influences. The professor was buried in his work. Young
smith knew nobody in the neighborhood, and the two women
had nothing to take them from the house, although the
garden gates only a hundred yards from the main nun
of the Chatham Road.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And just a moment, these two women, who are they?
Who is an.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Elderly housekeeper, Missus Marker and a maid Susan tars Let's
see this, says Susan Tartan was the only person who
was saying anything positive about the matter.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Between eleven and twelve, I was hanging some curtains in
the upstairs front bedroom.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Sir, where is the professor at this time?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh, Professor Korn was still in bed when the weather
study ide ever gets up before midday, Sir, I heard
mister Willow Business pass along the passage and go down
to the study just below where I was working. A
minute or so later there was a preadful cries, then.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Nothing, just silence.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What do you do, sir?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I ran downstairs to the study and there he was stretched.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Out on the floor.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
He seemed to be dead, but then he opened his
eyes and spoke to me. He said, the professor it
was she.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You mean hate, sure for the professor it was fake, No, sir,
just like I told you, it was she. Did you
hear anything else at all?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I saw the knife set, look the one you've got there.
It used to be on the professor's desk. It was
lying on the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Thank you, Susan, now, missus Marco, Yes, sir, you came
on the scene too, I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Oh, but I wasn't in time to hear him speak, sir.
He was dead when I come.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What did you do? Well?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I left Susan with him and I run up to
the professor's room. He was sitting up in.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Bed, very upset. He was, I said, oh, yes, something trouble. Well,
he's heard something going on. Mister Smith's screaming, and he
knew something awful and happened.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So well.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He sent me to tell the gardener to go for
the police off.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Local police said, wife something guard. I was down there
in a jippie. I go strict orders for no one
to walk on the paths leading to the house or
move anything inside. I don't mind.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Saying it was a splendid chance of putting your theories
into practice.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Mister Sherlock Holmes, there was really nothing wanting about this
case except mister Sherlock Holmes, well, what sort of a
job did you make of it? The question I asked
myself was how did the murderer get into the house
and out again? That's room.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It must have been by the path and the garden door.
Otherwise Susan would have run into him as she came downstairs.
So I directed my attention to the garden path. There'd
be plenty of rain before the time of the murder,
then there should certainly be signed so many footmarks, and
where there there were no footmarks on the bath.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So I next examined the corridor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's lined with cocoanut matting and taken no impression of
any kind. This brought me into the study itself. It's
a scatterly fournished room. The main article is a large
writing table with a fixed bureau. The drawers of the
bureau were open, but the cupt between them locked.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Tad anything been tempered with. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The professor assured me that nothing was missing as to
the body.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Of the young man Willoughby Smith.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The stab was on the right side of the neck
and from behind, so it's almost impossible if.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It could have been self afflicted. Is that any of
my evidence?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There is something most important? Yes, not that a pair
of past me. They were found in the dead man's
right hand.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They weren't he is.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He had excellent size and there can be no question
as he snatched them from the face of the assasine.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
May I see them? Did h thank cure?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Very handsome, solid girl. I'll just try them on. Oh,
dear me, extraordinary. Will I tell you anything? Hold a
great deal, inspector. You have your notebook of course for years,
then pray take it out and write as I dictate
very well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Times I'm ready right down.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Wanted a woman of good address, attired like a lady.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
She has a remarkably thick nose, with eyes which are
set close upon either side of it. She has a
pucket forehead, appearing expression and probably rounded shoulders.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There are indications that she has.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Had recourse to an optician at least twice during the
last few months.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians
are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in
tracing that my George is Marks's incredible. But meanwhile, have
you anything more to tell us about the case? Nothing? Stones,
I think you know as much as I do now,
probably more. Such a such a pointless crime, that's what
beats me. No one has suggested a ghost of a motive.
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I suppose you can't, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Ah, there are not in a position to help you,
as I suppose you wants us to come out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
But if he's not asking too much, there's a train
from charing Cross to chatter at six in the morning.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We should be a joxty old place between eight and
nine then we shall take it. Well, it's nearly one
now and we'd best get a few Hurstley.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'll stay here and I don't you've managed on the
sofa in front of the fire.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's a very good idea. And I like my spirit
lamp and give you a cup of coffee before we
start special anywhere the wind was dropped, that's really one.
Anywhars knows her nothing now reports of any strangers about
knows her. I've just been asking a gun at the
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railway station. If you inquired at the innus and lodgings.
There's no one who can't be a coage it for her.
It's only a reasonable walk to chat him. Anyone could
stay there. I've been noticed you all right, Kelly. It
wasn't very good, sir, but this is the year of
the gardens. Sound someone has passed along here.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Our lady must have picked her steps carefully, and she'd
have left the track on the path on one hand,
on the soft flower dead.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
On the other. Yes, she must have been a cool customer.
You say, must have come back this way as well.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
There's no other way. It was a very remarkable performance,
very remarkable. Well, I think they've exhausted the path.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Let us now go indoors to the scene of the crime.
The position is this.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The garden door is usually kept open, so the lady
had nothing to do but walk in, the idea of
murder was not in her mind, or she'd have provided
herself for the weapon instead of having to take up
the knife from this writing table. Here she came along
the corridor leading no places.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Upon the coconut messy. Then she found herself in this study.
What does she do? She goes over to the writing table.
What for? Not for a living in the drawers for
nothing is missing. No, it was for something in this bureau.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So what's this scratch beside the keyhole? Why didn't you
tell me of this? Hopkins? I noticed it, mister Holmes.
But you always find scratches around a gee.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Home, Watson. Just give missus Marker a shot, William. This
scratch is recent, Hopkins, quite recent. See how the brass
shines where it's cut through my limbses. I see what
you mean.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
An old scratch will be the same color as the surfaces.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Marker.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Oh, missus Marker, did you dousk this puireau yesterday morning?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Did you notice this scratch where? Sir? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Oh no, that wasn't there yesterday. I'm sure of that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ah. Who has the key of this puireau?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
The professor keeps it on his watch chain.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I see.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I understand that this passage connects only with the Professor's
room and the garden door.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
That's right, sir, There are no other doors offered.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Thank you, missus Marker. That is all, thank you, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Making any progress returns certainly, this is what I see.
The lady enters the room, advances to the bureau and
either opens it or prize to do so.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
While she is thus engaged, young.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Willoughby Smith comes in in her hurry to withdraw the key.
She makes this scratch upon the door. Smith seizes her,
and she snatches up the nearest object, which happens to
be the knife, to spike at him and make him
let go his own.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The blow is a table one. She escapes, either with
or without the object for which he's come. Yes, that
seems fair enough, and now it's time we made the
acquaintance of the professor. Certainly, Oh so the college daughter.
His room is also lined with coconut mercy. This is
very important.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Indeed, I don't mean I understand you don't see any
bearing upon the case.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, well, I don't insist, no doubt I'm wrong. Now
come and introduced Peter the place.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Please excuse the atmosphere, gentlemen, I fear I am a
slave to tobacco. Are you a smoker, mister Holmes, Yes, indeed,
then pray take a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh thank you, Dr Watson, thank you. No, I have
especially prepared by ionogies of Alexandria. He sends me a
thousand at a time.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
But I agreed to say I have to arrange for
a fresh supply every fourth.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Indeed, very bad, I ad met. But an old man
has few pleasures, and tobacco my work.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
But now the only tobacco announs what a fatal interruption
to my work?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Maybe know its subject?
Speaker 9 (12:41):
It is an analysis of the documents found in the
Coptic monasteries of Syria and Egypt. It is a work
which will cut deep at the very foundations of revealed religion.
But who have foreseen anything so terrible happening to the
young man?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What do you think of the better? Mister Holt five.
Speaker 10 (13:02):
Have not yet made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I shall indeed be indebted to you if you can
throw a light where all is so dark to a
poor bookworm in Flida like myself.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How such a blow is paralyzing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
But you are a man of action, and we are
a fortunate indeed having you at outside or but do
take another.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Cigarette, and dear, you are even the quicker smoker. But
I am.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Myself, I am a connoisseur, and these an excellent cigarette.
A professor Coham, Oh what do you imagine? This poor
fellow meant by his.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Last words the professor.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
It was she, mister Holmes, O mate Susan, a simple girl.
I fancy the poor fellow murmured simmon, coherent, delirious words.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And she twisted them into this meaningless message. The eyeglasses,
where did they come from?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Them?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Inspector?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
We are aware that love tokens may take a strange shape,
but a fan, the glove, a pair of lame.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Tell me, Professor Cordham, what is in the cupboard of
the bureau in your study?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Oh, nothing for a thief, A family, papers and diplomas
from universities.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That have honored me. I think scare is the key.
Oh look for yourself.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh well, no, I I hardly think it could help me.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, here is your key, professor, Thank you. I promise
you shall not be disturbed again until two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
All right, shall come again then if I may and
report anything which may have happened in the US, by by.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
All means, by yourself. Oh, do take a few of
these cigarettes with you? Look there, Oh, thank you? Well
have your clues.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What are you thinking, mister hous It depends upon those
cigarette size.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Man, Perhaps I much a mistake on the cigarette the cigarettes.
I've never seen you smoke so much in.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
My life, except your pipe of course, yes, and I
hope I shall never help you again.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Watson.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It comes to good, Missus Marker, did a person to
give us a few minutes instruct this conversation, Missus Marker, y,
mister Hols, I've been wanting to congratulate you on the
way you keep up the house.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh, sir, No, I was just saying as much to
my friend, wasn't I? Yes, yes, sir, high they common
the ball.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
That's very good of you, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm sure it must be especially difficult to be professors,
but king as much as he does, you know, all
over the place and so forth.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh here, quite right, sir. Does it never affect his health?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
His health? Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Well, that I can't say.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Sorry, but he's epithite. Surely such head is money must
kill the epidite.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
He is variable about how much he eats.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I'll say that I should think so.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
This morning, for instance, I'll wager he took no breakfast,
and he'll certainly there's no lunch after all the cigarettes
I saw him consume.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
While you're out there, sir. Oh huh, yet, especially big.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Breakfast this morning, I don't know when I've known him
take a better one and he's already a good dish
of cutlass for his lunch. Mind you, I'm surprised, sir,
after I saw mister Smith lying on that floor yesterday,
I've hardly been able to look at food myself.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Would you certainly surprised me? Missus Parker, did you have
a special luncheon to prepare? We mustn't keep you must face.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
No, sir, I was been getting along.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Note good day, just good day, homes. You're working something up?
I know the signs am I what?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh well, at two o'clock we shall return to our friend,
the professor and see where my chain of reasoning is taking.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Very punctual, indeed, gentleman. And now, mister Holmes, I'm sure
you're looking forward to a few more of my cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Aha, it's very kind of you, professor, not at all,
take the tin and help you beg your pardon. This
is my own puns in it alone, know it now?
What it was my fault? I insist that you mean son,
have even round as far as the what case is
the corner are there? I think we have them? Yes,
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I I think there's everything clear that now. Oh, you
shouldn't have troubled mister Holmes. But tell me now, have
you solved this mystery of ours? Yet? Yes, I have
thought that I solved.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
It, indeed by strolling about in the garden here here,
when this instant you are joking. Surely, mister Sherlock Holmes, Professor.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Coreham, what your motives are or what exact part you
play in this strange business, I'm not yet able to say.
In a few minutes, I shall probably get it from
your own lips. Meanwhile, I will reconstruct what has passed
so that you may know the information which I still
require as you wish.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yes, a lady entered your study with the.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Intention of possessing herself of certain documents from your bureau.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
She had a key of her own.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You gave me an opportunity of examining yours, and I
do not find on it that slight discoloration which the stretch.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Would have produced.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You were not an accessory therefore, and she evidently came
without your knowledge to rob you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
This is most interesting and instructive.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
But surely, having traced this lady so far, you can
also say what has become of her.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I will endeavor to do so.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
In the first plase, she was seized by your secretary
and stabbed in in order to escape this catastrophe I
am inclined to regard as an unhappy accident. Horrified by
what she had done, she rushed wildly away from the sea. Unfortunately,
she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as
she was extremely short sighted, she was really helpless. Without
she ran down a corridor which she imagined to be
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that by which she'd come both the lines of Coconut Matty,
and too late realized.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That she had taken the wrong one. She couldn't go back.
She must go on. She pushed open a door and
found herself in your room.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Oh all, very fine, mister Holmes, But there is one
little floor in a splendid theory.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I was myself in my room.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
I am aware of that, Professor Korum, and you need
to say that I could lie in bed and not
be aware that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
A woman had entered my room. I never said, sir,
you were aware of it. You recognize that you aided
her to escape. You are mad, mad that I helped
to escape. But then where does she know?
Speaker 12 (19:28):
She is there behind that book Keith in the corner.
You are right, you are quite right.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I am here.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I arrest you in the Queen's name for the murder
of Willoughby Smith. And I warn you that he is, sir,
and your prisoner.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
I could hear everything, and I know that you have
learned the truth. It was I who killed that young man.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Then you really you are right, you, sir, to say
that it was an accident. I just don't even know that.
I heard a knife in my hand.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
In my despair, I snatched the nearest thing from the
table and struck at him to make him.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Let me gone. I am sure that is the proof.
If she bet sit down a moment home, she looks
at you. Thank you. I have only a little time here,
and I must tell you the whole truth. Can you
take this chat? Thank you. I am this man's wife.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
He is not an Englishman. He is a Russian.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I'm gonna tell you his name. The Lord.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
I wonder why you cling so hard to that wretched
life of your saggey.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It has brought no good to anyone, least about yourself. Pray,
let us hear what you have to say. I was
a foolish girl when I married this old man. In Russia.
We were reformists revolutioniss. Then came a time of trouble.
A police officer was killed and in all of the
series online and earned a great reward.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
My husband betrayed his companions and me with some raman.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Uhm, it's that was one and that say it was.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Noble, unselfish, loving everything.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
My husband was not. He hated violence. He was forever
writing to dissuade me from it. If my husband found.
Speaker 14 (21:07):
The letters, which would have saved that man and me
from Sibelia, he hid the man, so we were convicted.
I was released not long ago, but Alexey is still
that convict in the salt mine.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Think of that. You own visison and I could have
killed you in this room. But that's bad you. You
were always a noble.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
I came to this country with the object of getting
those letters, which would set a lext day free.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I knew you.
Speaker 13 (21:37):
Would never give them to me, he said, gay, so
I engaged a private.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Detective who came here as a secretary. He found where
the papers were kept, then got an impression of the
Then he would go no further than debt here.
Speaker 13 (21:50):
I took my courage in both hands and came to
get the papers for rest, and I succeeded.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
But that was her cost man's words were the Professor
it was she. Do I understand then that Psmith knew
who you were? By chance?
Speaker 14 (22:06):
I admit him near the gate that morning and asked
him where Professor called him lived.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Exactly in his last breath, Smith's pride to send a
vessons to the Professor, for it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Was she, for she whom he adjudged custody. Just let
me finish quickly.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
After I had chused the young man, I ran blindly
into this room.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
My husband spoke of giving me up.
Speaker 13 (22:27):
I threatened that if he did, I should give him
away to our party other later.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
For that reason I fo no.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
As I he let me hide in process.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Behind the bookcase.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
By anyone approached, he was able to give me half
off his owns.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
He is agreed that when the police left us, I
should slip away by night and come back no more. Gentlemen.
Speaker 13 (22:52):
Here here are the letters will save Alex, say, I
confide them to your honest yesslemen, and son justice a fool.
Speaker 14 (23:04):
Eating my hiding place.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I have taken pos.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Range a simple case, my dear Wilson, and yet in
some ways an instructive one.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It hinged from the outset upon the plants name. Without them,
I'm not sure that we could ever reached our solution.
But what was all read about the footmarks on the
grass bird? When Hopkins here asked me to believe that
the intruder, having lost her powerful eyeglasses, could escape by
the way she had come, treading carefully along a narrow
grass strip, I set it down as impossible. I was
(23:48):
forced to consider the hypothesis that she had remained within
the house. On perceiving the similarity of the two corridors,
it became clear that she must have entered the professor's room,
for there was no other hiding place for her.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The device of a ressess behind the bookcase is a
common one in old libraries.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
I therefore starch a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I dropped the ash all over the floor in front
of the bookcase.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
When we had ascertained that the professor's consumption of food
had increased, we returned to his room, whereby upsetting the
cigarette box, I obtained an excellent view of the.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Floor, so you were able to see from places in
the ash.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Did she had come out of a retreat while we
were absent remarkable homes ah?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But here we are at sharing cloths.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Well, Hopkins, I congratulate you on having brought your case
to a successful conclusion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You are going to the yard.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That's Watson. I think you and I will drive together
to the Russian embassy. We have a small puss. The
(25:03):
Case of the Golden pass Ney was one of the
Sherlock Holmes stories.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name in real life
is Norman Shelley. My friend Carlton Hobbes paid Sherlock Holmes,
and I was doctor Watson. And our script for this
BBC production from London was by Michael Howdy. You don't
seem to see so many past their birth these days,
you know, eyeglasses that clip on your nose. But I
(25:29):
hope we will be seeing each other about again soon.
For more of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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