August 4, 2025 • 26 mins
This detective series brings the adventures of the famous sleuth to life, solving complex cases with keen observation and deductive reasoning. The stories are rich in intrigue and suspense.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Why father, what is it?
(00:24):
I must tell you where the trisure is? And it
is hidden? No, no, speak an answer? There that's the window.
What is it? That's face? That face, the sign of
the floor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I can still hear those words echoing in my memory,
for in a sense they changed my life. My name
is Watson, doctor Watson, and I was privileged to share
the adventures of Sherlock Hilt. I will tell you how
we first came across the site before I can see
it still our rooms in Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes,
(01:07):
and in.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Such details you will be there yourself. If I may
collect my thoughts for just a moment.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
My mind rebel's stagnation.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,
and I'm in my own daughter atmosphere. But I abhor
the dull routine of existence. That's why I chose my
own particular profession, or rather.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Created it, for I'm the only one in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You're the only unofficial detective, the only unofficial consulting detective.
The work itself is my highest reward. That Watson, you've
had some experience of my methods work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I was never so struck by anything in my life.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I even embodied the experience in a small busher with
a sort of fantastic title of study in scarlet. I
read it honestly. I cannot congratulate you on it. Oh,
detection is or ought to be an exact science and
should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You have attempted to.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect
as if you worked a love story into a fifth
proposition of euclid, but the romancers there. My practice has
extended recently to the consonant. I was consulted last week
by fransvola Villa, who, as you probably know, has come
rather to the front lately in the French detective service.
(02:35):
She's now translating my small works into French your work. Yes,
I've been guilty of several monogers, and Slater example is
one upon.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The distinction between the ashes of the various tobaccos. In it,
I enumerate one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Forty forms of cigars, cigarette and pipe tobacco.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
One hundred forty Here alwa is.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My monograph upon the Tracy footsteps with some remarks upon
the uses.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of plaster of terrace as a preserver of.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Impressions, that I weary with my hobby, not at all.
When you speaking just now of observation and deduction, surely
the one that some extinct implies the other by no means.
Observation shows me that you've been to the whig Mall
Street post office this morning. But deduction lets me know
that when there you dispatched a telegram. Observation tells me
(03:28):
that you have a little reddish mold adhere into your instead. Now,
just opposite the wig Mall Street post Office, they've taken
up the pavement and thrown up some earth which lies
in such a way that it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
To avoid treading in it on entry. The earth is
of this peculiar.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Reddish tint, which is found, as far as I know,
nowhere else in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Proud foe, But how did you deduce the telegram?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, of course I knew that you'd not written a letter,
since I sat opposite.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You all the morning. I see you also.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
In your open desk there that you will have a
sheet of stents and a thick bundle of purst guard.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But What could you go into the post office.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
For then, but to send a wire? Illimimate all other factors,
and the one which remains.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Must be the truth to me.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
See Watson, how the yellow fog swells down the streets and.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Drifts across the dun colored houses. What could be more
hopelessly prosaic and material? What's the use of having powers?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Doctor, when one has their field upon wish to exert them?
Crying his commonplace existence is commonplace, and no qualities save
those which are commonplace, had any function upon earth?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh? What iss a young lady for mister how sir?
I have no appointmance?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes a card, sir, Miss Mary Muston, I have no
recollection of the name.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Would very well ask her to step in, Missus Hudson,
very good? Will you go in, please, Miss Marston? Thank you?
They come in, madam.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's good of you to see me. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
This is my friend and colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
How do you do, doctor?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How do you do? Missus Awston? Will you take the
basket chair? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I've come to you, mister Holmes, because you once enabled
my employer, missus Cecil Forester, to unravel a little domestic
complication that she was much impressed by your kindness and.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Skill, missus Cecil Forester, whereas I believe that I was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
A some slight service to her.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Mister Holmes, I can hardly imagine anything more strange than
the situation in which I find myself.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Then prayse state your case briefly. The facts are these.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
My father was an officer in an Indian regiment who
sent me home when I was a child.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
My mother was dead and I.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Had no relative in England, so I was placed in
a comfortable establishment in Edinburgh.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
When I was seventeen years of age, my father arrived
in London on leave and directed me to come down
at once. On reaching the.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Langham Hotel, I was informed that Captain Morston had gone.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Out the night before and had not returned.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
From that day. To this no word has.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Ever been heard of my unfortunate father. The date he
disappeared on the third of December eighteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Eighteen seventy eight, little ten years ago, is like it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
There was nothing in it to suggest a clue.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Have you friends in London?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
With only one that we know of, Major Chaltou of
his own regiment to Sety fourth Bombay Infantry. Major Charlto
had retired some time before my father came home. He
lived at Upper Norwood after we communicated with him across,
but he didn't even know that his brother officer was
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now in England.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I see I haven't yet described to you the most
singular part. About six years ago, in eighteen eighty two,
to be exact, an advertisement appeared in The Times asking
for the address of Miss Mary Marston.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Eighty two.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I had just entered the family of missus cecil Forrester
as governess, and by her advice, I published my.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Address in the advertisement column.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
The same day there arrived through the post a small
cardboard box addressed to me.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It contained a very large and lustrous pearl remarkable.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No word of writing was enclosed. Every year since then,
on the same date there has come a box containing
a similar.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Purl without any clue.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
As Civis sender, think you can see for yourselves that
they are very handsome.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is most interesting. Does anything else happen?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, this morning I received this letter h thank you
of the envelope top be cost think you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Post Mark London, s w O d July seventh, hm
Man some mar.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
From a corner p public postman.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Best quality paper envelopes at sixpence a package particular man
in the stationary nor address? What is sale homes?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Be it the third pillar.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
From the left outside the Lyceum Theater the night at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police if
you do or will be in.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Vain Signed your unknown friend. What do you intend to do?
Miss Molson?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That is exactly what I want to tell, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We shall certainly go, you and I and yes, doctor Watson,
for very manna.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We've worked together before.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You're both very kind. If I'm here at.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Six, will it do?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You must not be later? No, there is one point, however,
is this handwriting the same to touch upon the pearl
bus addresses?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I have them all here. You're certainly a model flad.
Let's see. Now these are a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Disguised hands, but they are, and that's by the same person.
But we shall look out to you at six then
good afternoon. See what a billy A cresitive woman, My
dear Watson. It's the first importance not to allow your
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judgment to be biased, but personal equalities. I assure you
that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged
for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. Yes,
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Well,
I'm going out now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I have a few references to look up. I shall
be back in alarm.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Oh my dear Watson, there's no great mystery in this matter.
The facts appear to admit of only one explanation. But
you haven't solved it already. I just found, on consulting
the back files of the Times that Majure Shelter about
the Norwood Late Prediforth bom Day Infantry died on the
twenty eighth of April eighteen eighty two. I maybe William twosomes,
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but I shall see what this ists.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Will you surprise me?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Captain Marston disappears. His only acquaintance in London is Major Shelter.
Four years later, Chalter dies. Within a week of his death,
Captain Morton's daughter receives a valuable present which is repeated
from year to year, and now culminations in a letter
which describes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Her as a wrong woman.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why should the presents begin immediately after Shelter's death? But
listen to if the chanter's heir knows something of the
mystery and desires to make compensations.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If the letter speaks of giving.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Her justice, what justice can she heavy?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's too much to suppose her father is still alive
and a certainly difficulties, but our expedition of tonight will
solve them all. Ah.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I think that's the four wheeler. Yes, and there's Miss
Marston inside. Are you already I'm at at home. Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Major Shelter was a very particular.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Friend of Papa's, then in.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Command of the Convict Guard on the end of an Islands,
part of Brainstones.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
A curious paper was found in Papa's.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I don't suppose it's the slightest importance, but I think
you might.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Care to see this, Oh, thank you, Hm. Seems to
be a plan for part of a large building at
one point. Here you see there's a small crust and
in red ink in the lestern corona.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
There's a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line
with their arms touching.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And besides that, there's written in very.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Rough and course characters, the sign of the four Jonathan
Small Muhammed singher Bi la Khan Dastakaba presented carefully, Miss Marston,
I shall I suspect that this matter may.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Turn out to be much.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Deeper and more subtle than I act. Suppose that's right?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This one and I can't say this is I'm me?
I owe the party is what come with Miss Morston?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I am Miss Morston, and these two gentlemen of my friends.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I would ask you to give me your word. Miss
When I heard your companion that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Is a policeman, I give you my word.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thank you. If you're following me either, can't go?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh, I lost my bearing ages ago one's ust throw denner,
How you'll do it?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Stop for place? God have the lames dear me question?
Can't have get me taking it to any sessionable regions.
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You are coming this way, please.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yourself, Miss mossin your seven gentlemen prayer step into my
little sent My name is Adu Steur, These gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
This stave, mister Sherlock Holmes, and this doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Doctor, I have a great sufferer and I have long hair.
Suspicions as to my might drug out. Had your father,
Miss Morson, refrained from throwing straight upon his heart, he
might have been alive now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Rellis I pray have some consideration for the lady.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I knew in my heart that he was dead.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Miss Wolston.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I can give you every information, and what is more,
I can do you justice and I will not about
brother Buffoli. We may say, but let it have no outsiders, your.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Police or officials, whatever you may choose to say.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We're gonna further.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Thank you, mister Charter. It's getting late, and I should
like the interview to be as short as.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Possible, well the best. It must take some time for
we shall certainly have to go to Rowood and see
brother buffolow you. He's very angry for taking the course
which has seemed right to me.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Nor didn't want to do as well as some once.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But I must prepare you by laying the facts before you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Then play do sir sir. My father, Major.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
John Chalta, retired from the Indian Army some mantive years
ago and came through bunditary large Upper Norwood with a
considerable sum of money, a large collection of valuable curiosities
and the stuff of native servants. My queen, brother Buftholomew,
and I were the only children. We will remember the
sensation which was called by the disappearance of Captain Mouston.
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We went the details in the papers, but never for
an instant did resuspect that my father had the whole
secret hidden in his beast.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We didn't know, however, that some mystery overhuna our father.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Early in eighteen eighty two, my father received a letter
from India which was a great shot to him. From
that day he sickened to his death. Towards the end
of April, we were informed that he wished to make
a last communication to us.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Son.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The only one thing which weighs upon thy mind that
the supreme was, was my treatment of poor Master's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Often merely at least half of the treasure should have been.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hers to my sons. Will give her a fair share
of the argal treasure. Come kindly. Were in India Loston alive.
Through a remarkable chain of circumstance, it claim in the
possession of a considerable treasure and brought it over to England,
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And on the night of Loston's arrival he came straight
here to claim his share. We had a difference of opinion.
Boston sprang out of his chair.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And then he suddenly pressed his hand to his side.
He saw a Chris, I found to my honor that
he was damed. Good God. I was still out there
stooping over.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Him when I saw my.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Servant, girl Childer, in the doorway.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Do not fill your sab, he said, No one need
know that you have killed him.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I did not kill him, said I now, child As
shook his head and smiled. I heard your qually, U
sab said he had I heard? Had they heard? Had
they to decide me? If my own servants couldn't believe
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my uses, how could I hope to make it good?
Afore twelve foolish treason? You have fury, boss, And then
well thou childhood, and.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I disposed of the body had read and within a
few days the London newspapers were.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Full of the Australis disappear as the Captain Boston. I why, father,
what is it? I must tell you where the treasure
it is? And it is hidden in No no, click
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him out, they're out the window. What is it? That's face?
That face the sign of the fall?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Can you describe the face of the window, mister shelter
and bearded, hairy, with cruel eyes and an expression of
concentrated evil. When we returned from the window. We found
my father's purse and ceased to beat. In the morning
we found his window open, use cupboards and boxes rifle.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Along his chest there.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Was fixed a tall piece of paper with the words
the sign of the fall Ah, the sign of the
Foe and the past. For weeks and months, my brother
and I dug in it every part of the garden,
or it was mad into think at the hiding place
was on my father's lips at the little moment he died.
Till this day I have seen only one piece of
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it that to get chatted over there. Yes, doctor, some
of the pearls are missing from it. When after my
father's death, I persuaded Batholomu to let me find out
Miss Norston's address and send a detached pearl at intervals,
so that at least we might make part of the
restitution my father had wished.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That was a kindly thought, mister Charter.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Not at all. We were your plus tees. Well, that's pursue.
I took it, though Bathalimu could not altogether see it
in that light, So I left Ponticelli lash.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And now I.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Asked, now, mister Charter, exactly why you brought us here this.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Evening, because yesterday I learned that the treasure had been discovered.
That it only remains for us to drive to waw
Wood and demand that brother Buffalow.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Could give us. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I stayed my views to him last night, so we
should be expected, if not very welcome. Mister Chatteau, you
have done well. We had best put the matter through
withou delay. And very well, mister Holmes, A cab will
be waiting outside.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How did your brother find the the oh about following you?
Was a clever fellow.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He worked out the cubic space of the house. He
found that the height of the building was seventy four feet,
but on adding together the heights of all the separate
rooms and the spaces between, he could not bring the
total to more than seventy feet. The fore feet, unaccounted for,
could only be at the top of the building. He
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knocked a hole in the ceiling of the highest room,
and there full enough the treasure chests stood in the center.
He computes the value of the jewels had not less
than half a million, steady.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Half a million.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, and Miss Marston must be about the richest service
in the country.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I believe you are right, Barson, who have letters? Be greeen?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Perhaps we shill see for ourselves the guitar.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mcmurdoin. Sure do you know by not by stick? Oh
that you mister studiers? But who are these others with you?
When I told my brother last night and I should
bring some prints?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I'm very sorry, mister dudeus and I don't know any
of your friends.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh yes you do, mcmurther.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Not mister Sherlock holmb Sir, then you come, sir, in
you come, you and your friends. Very sorry mister Thadys,
but Master God does are very strict.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You come along. Then weve wasted enough time.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
If you'll just follow me, mom and gents, I'll light
the way up to the house.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
With Matt Lanton. I can't understand it.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I distinctly turn upon you, but we should be here.
And if there's no light in his window, I say,
the length of a light in that little window was
not a door. That's the housekeeper's room. That is where
oh missus Burnstone sits.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What's that? What?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm sure I could just listen. It's a woman crying.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You're right, by jove, mister Hobs. Something seems to be
a miss or well you'll come into the house with me.
Leave his certainly.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
And I think I'm a little afraid.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Nothing to feel as most, and I show you would
you have to take my hand?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh yes, thank you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Better alone, much better this most than my feeling. I
feel we should follow them.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh no, no, missus Bonstone. What he is the.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Mister sir, there is something, there's something in mister knew
my brother.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
He just left himself and went to listen to me.
Oh dear, I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Hear from you, And so now they had met, went
up and peep through. You must go up quickly.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You must God to look for yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
To be your lantern mc murder and you.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Stay here, of miss Marston, mister shutter Watson, come with
me quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh veriss room the first on the lift. How can
we see injured that there's no light in there?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, there's tent of moon light. Let's see, God, something damnable.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You take a look. Wasn't he's He's just.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Sitting there, the horrible smile on his face, looking human
throat that almost come down to fight together.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Then again, now this time, now we shall see.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
The sign of the four is one of the Sherlock
Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doll.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
We're presenting it in three parts. You've just heard part one.
My name is Norman Shelley.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
My friend Carlton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes, and I was
Doctor Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this DDC
production from London. Of course, I look forward to the
pleasure of your company again very soon for part two
of the Sign of the Ford
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Why father, what is it?
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I must tell you where the trisure is? And it
is hidden? No, no, speak an answer? There that's the window.
What is it? That's face? That face, the sign of
the floor.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I can still hear those words echoing in my memory,
for in a sense they changed my life. My name
is Watson, doctor Watson, and I was privileged to share
the adventures of Sherlock Hilt. I will tell you how
we first came across the site before I can see
it still our rooms in Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes,
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and in.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Such details you will be there yourself. If I may
collect my thoughts for just a moment.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
My mind rebel's stagnation.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,
and I'm in my own daughter atmosphere. But I abhor
the dull routine of existence. That's why I chose my
own particular profession, or rather.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Created it, for I'm the only one in the world.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You're the only unofficial detective, the only unofficial consulting detective.
The work itself is my highest reward. That Watson, you've
had some experience of my methods work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I was never so struck by anything in my life.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I even embodied the experience in a small busher with
a sort of fantastic title of study in scarlet. I
read it honestly. I cannot congratulate you on it. Oh,
detection is or ought to be an exact science and
should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You have attempted to.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect
as if you worked a love story into a fifth
proposition of euclid, but the romancers there. My practice has
extended recently to the consonant. I was consulted last week
by fransvola Villa, who, as you probably know, has come
rather to the front lately in the French detective service.
(02:35):
She's now translating my small works into French your work. Yes,
I've been guilty of several monogers, and Slater example is
one upon.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The distinction between the ashes of the various tobaccos. In it,
I enumerate one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Forty forms of cigars, cigarette and pipe tobacco.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
One hundred forty Here alwa is.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My monograph upon the Tracy footsteps with some remarks upon
the uses.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of plaster of terrace as a preserver of.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Impressions, that I weary with my hobby, not at all.
When you speaking just now of observation and deduction, surely
the one that some extinct implies the other by no means.
Observation shows me that you've been to the whig Mall
Street post office this morning. But deduction lets me know
that when there you dispatched a telegram. Observation tells me
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that you have a little reddish mold adhere into your instead. Now,
just opposite the wig Mall Street post Office, they've taken
up the pavement and thrown up some earth which lies
in such a way that it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
To avoid treading in it on entry. The earth is
of this peculiar.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Reddish tint, which is found, as far as I know,
nowhere else in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Proud foe, But how did you deduce the telegram?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, of course I knew that you'd not written a letter,
since I sat opposite.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You all the morning. I see you also.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
In your open desk there that you will have a
sheet of stents and a thick bundle of purst guard.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But What could you go into the post office.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
For then, but to send a wire? Illimimate all other factors,
and the one which remains.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Must be the truth to me.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
See Watson, how the yellow fog swells down the streets and.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Drifts across the dun colored houses. What could be more
hopelessly prosaic and material? What's the use of having powers?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Doctor, when one has their field upon wish to exert them?
Crying his commonplace existence is commonplace, and no qualities save
those which are commonplace, had any function upon earth?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh? What iss a young lady for mister how sir?
I have no appointmance?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes a card, sir, Miss Mary Muston, I have no
recollection of the name.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Would very well ask her to step in, Missus Hudson,
very good? Will you go in, please, Miss Marston? Thank you?
They come in, madam.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's good of you to see me. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
This is my friend and colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
How do you do, doctor?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How do you do? Missus Awston? Will you take the
basket chair? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I've come to you, mister Holmes, because you once enabled
my employer, missus Cecil Forester, to unravel a little domestic
complication that she was much impressed by your kindness and.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Skill, missus Cecil Forester, whereas I believe that I was.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
A some slight service to her.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Mister Holmes, I can hardly imagine anything more strange than
the situation in which I find myself.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Then prayse state your case briefly. The facts are these.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
My father was an officer in an Indian regiment who
sent me home when I was a child.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
My mother was dead and I.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Had no relative in England, so I was placed in
a comfortable establishment in Edinburgh.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
When I was seventeen years of age, my father arrived
in London on leave and directed me to come down
at once. On reaching the.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Langham Hotel, I was informed that Captain Morston had gone.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Out the night before and had not returned.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
From that day. To this no word has.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Ever been heard of my unfortunate father. The date he
disappeared on the third of December eighteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Eighteen seventy eight, little ten years ago, is like it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
There was nothing in it to suggest a clue.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Have you friends in London?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
With only one that we know of, Major Chaltou of
his own regiment to Sety fourth Bombay Infantry. Major Charlto
had retired some time before my father came home. He
lived at Upper Norwood after we communicated with him across,
but he didn't even know that his brother officer was
(07:10):
now in England.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I see I haven't yet described to you the most
singular part. About six years ago, in eighteen eighty two,
to be exact, an advertisement appeared in The Times asking
for the address of Miss Mary Marston.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Eighty two.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I had just entered the family of missus cecil Forrester
as governess, and by her advice, I published my.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Address in the advertisement column.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
The same day there arrived through the post a small
cardboard box addressed to me.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It contained a very large and lustrous pearl remarkable.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No word of writing was enclosed. Every year since then,
on the same date there has come a box containing
a similar.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Purl without any clue.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
As Civis sender, think you can see for yourselves that
they are very handsome.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
This is most interesting. Does anything else happen?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yes, this morning I received this letter h thank you
of the envelope top be cost think you.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Post Mark London, s w O d July seventh, hm
Man some mar.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
From a corner p public postman.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Best quality paper envelopes at sixpence a package particular man
in the stationary nor address? What is sale homes?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Be it the third pillar.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
From the left outside the Lyceum Theater the night at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police if
you do or will be in.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Vain Signed your unknown friend. What do you intend to do?
Miss Molson?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That is exactly what I want to tell, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We shall certainly go, you and I and yes, doctor Watson,
for very manna.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We've worked together before.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
You're both very kind. If I'm here at.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Six, will it do?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You must not be later? No, there is one point, however,
is this handwriting the same to touch upon the pearl
bus addresses?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I have them all here. You're certainly a model flad.
Let's see. Now these are a.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Disguised hands, but they are, and that's by the same person.
But we shall look out to you at six then
good afternoon. See what a billy A cresitive woman, My
dear Watson. It's the first importance not to allow your
(09:57):
judgment to be biased, but personal equalities. I assure you
that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged
for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. Yes,
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Well,
I'm going out now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I have a few references to look up. I shall
be back in alarm.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Oh my dear Watson, there's no great mystery in this matter.
The facts appear to admit of only one explanation. But
you haven't solved it already. I just found, on consulting
the back files of the Times that Majure Shelter about
the Norwood Late Prediforth bom Day Infantry died on the
twenty eighth of April eighteen eighty two. I maybe William twosomes,
(10:44):
but I shall see what this ists.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Will you surprise me?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Captain Marston disappears. His only acquaintance in London is Major Shelter.
Four years later, Chalter dies. Within a week of his death,
Captain Morton's daughter receives a valuable present which is repeated
from year to year, and now culminations in a letter
which describes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Her as a wrong woman.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why should the presents begin immediately after Shelter's death? But
listen to if the chanter's heir knows something of the
mystery and desires to make compensations.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If the letter speaks of giving.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Her justice, what justice can she heavy?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's too much to suppose her father is still alive
and a certainly difficulties, but our expedition of tonight will
solve them all. Ah.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I think that's the four wheeler. Yes, and there's Miss
Marston inside. Are you already I'm at at home. Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Major Shelter was a very particular.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Friend of Papa's, then in.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Command of the Convict Guard on the end of an Islands,
part of Brainstones.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
A curious paper was found in Papa's.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I don't suppose it's the slightest importance, but I think
you might.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Care to see this, Oh, thank you, Hm. Seems to
be a plan for part of a large building at
one point. Here you see there's a small crust and
in red ink in the lestern corona.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
There's a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line
with their arms touching.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And besides that, there's written in very.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Rough and course characters, the sign of the four Jonathan
Small Muhammed singher Bi la Khan Dastakaba presented carefully, Miss Marston,
I shall I suspect that this matter may.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Turn out to be much.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Deeper and more subtle than I act. Suppose that's right?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
This one and I can't say this is I'm me?
I owe the party is what come with Miss Morston?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I am Miss Morston, and these two gentlemen of my friends.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I would ask you to give me your word. Miss
When I heard your companion that.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Is a policeman, I give you my word.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Thank you. If you're following me either, can't go?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Oh, I lost my bearing ages ago one's ust throw denner,
How you'll do it?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Stop for place? God have the lames dear me question?
Can't have get me taking it to any sessionable regions.
(14:22):
You are coming this way, please.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yourself, Miss mossin your seven gentlemen prayer step into my
little sent My name is Adu Steur, These gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
This stave, mister Sherlock Holmes, and this doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Doctor, I have a great sufferer and I have long hair.
Suspicions as to my might drug out. Had your father,
Miss Morson, refrained from throwing straight upon his heart, he
might have been alive now.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Rellis I pray have some consideration for the lady.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I knew in my heart that he was dead.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Miss Wolston.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I can give you every information, and what is more,
I can do you justice and I will not about
brother Buffoli. We may say, but let it have no outsiders, your.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Police or officials, whatever you may choose to say.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We're gonna further.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Thank you, mister Charter. It's getting late, and I should
like the interview to be as short as.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Possible, well the best. It must take some time for
we shall certainly have to go to Rowood and see
brother buffolow you. He's very angry for taking the course
which has seemed right to me.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Nor didn't want to do as well as some once.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But I must prepare you by laying the facts before you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Then play do sir sir. My father, Major.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
John Chalta, retired from the Indian Army some mantive years
ago and came through bunditary large Upper Norwood with a
considerable sum of money, a large collection of valuable curiosities
and the stuff of native servants. My queen, brother Buftholomew,
and I were the only children. We will remember the
sensation which was called by the disappearance of Captain Mouston.
(16:05):
We went the details in the papers, but never for
an instant did resuspect that my father had the whole
secret hidden in his beast.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We didn't know, however, that some mystery overhuna our father.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Early in eighteen eighty two, my father received a letter
from India which was a great shot to him. From
that day he sickened to his death. Towards the end
of April, we were informed that he wished to make
a last communication to us.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Son.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The only one thing which weighs upon thy mind that
the supreme was, was my treatment of poor Master's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Often merely at least half of the treasure should have been.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Hers to my sons. Will give her a fair share
of the argal treasure. Come kindly. Were in India Loston alive.
Through a remarkable chain of circumstance, it claim in the
possession of a considerable treasure and brought it over to England,
(17:21):
And on the night of Loston's arrival he came straight
here to claim his share. We had a difference of opinion.
Boston sprang out of his chair.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And then he suddenly pressed his hand to his side.
He saw a Chris, I found to my honor that
he was damed. Good God. I was still out there
stooping over.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Him when I saw my.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Servant, girl Childer, in the doorway.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Do not fill your sab, he said, No one need
know that you have killed him.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I did not kill him, said I now, child As
shook his head and smiled. I heard your qually, U
sab said he had I heard? Had they heard? Had
they to decide me? If my own servants couldn't believe
(18:29):
my uses, how could I hope to make it good?
Afore twelve foolish treason? You have fury, boss, And then
well thou childhood, and.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I disposed of the body had read and within a
few days the London newspapers were.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Full of the Australis disappear as the Captain Boston. I why, father,
what is it? I must tell you where the treasure
it is? And it is hidden in No no, click
(19:13):
him out, they're out the window. What is it? That's face?
That face the sign of the fall?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Can you describe the face of the window, mister shelter
and bearded, hairy, with cruel eyes and an expression of
concentrated evil. When we returned from the window. We found
my father's purse and ceased to beat. In the morning
we found his window open, use cupboards and boxes rifle.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Along his chest there.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Was fixed a tall piece of paper with the words
the sign of the fall Ah, the sign of the
Foe and the past. For weeks and months, my brother
and I dug in it every part of the garden,
or it was mad into think at the hiding place
was on my father's lips at the little moment he died.
Till this day I have seen only one piece of
(20:10):
it that to get chatted over there. Yes, doctor, some
of the pearls are missing from it. When after my
father's death, I persuaded Batholomu to let me find out
Miss Norston's address and send a detached pearl at intervals,
so that at least we might make part of the
restitution my father had wished.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That was a kindly thought, mister Charter.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Not at all. We were your plus tees. Well, that's pursue.
I took it, though Bathalimu could not altogether see it
in that light, So I left Ponticelli lash.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And now I.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Asked, now, mister Charter, exactly why you brought us here this.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Evening, because yesterday I learned that the treasure had been discovered.
That it only remains for us to drive to waw
Wood and demand that brother Buffalow.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Could give us. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I stayed my views to him last night, so we
should be expected, if not very welcome. Mister Chatteau, you
have done well. We had best put the matter through
withou delay. And very well, mister Holmes, A cab will
be waiting outside.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How did your brother find the the oh about following you?
Was a clever fellow.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He worked out the cubic space of the house. He
found that the height of the building was seventy four feet,
but on adding together the heights of all the separate
rooms and the spaces between, he could not bring the
total to more than seventy feet. The fore feet, unaccounted for,
could only be at the top of the building. He
(21:38):
knocked a hole in the ceiling of the highest room,
and there full enough the treasure chests stood in the center.
He computes the value of the jewels had not less
than half a million, steady.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Half a million.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, and Miss Marston must be about the richest service
in the country.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I believe you are right, Barson, who have letters? Be greeen?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Perhaps we shill see for ourselves the guitar.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mcmurdoin. Sure do you know by not by stick? Oh
that you mister studiers? But who are these others with you?
When I told my brother last night and I should
bring some prints?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I'm very sorry, mister dudeus and I don't know any
of your friends.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh yes you do, mcmurther.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Not mister Sherlock holmb Sir, then you come, sir, in
you come, you and your friends. Very sorry mister Thadys,
but Master God does are very strict.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
You come along. Then weve wasted enough time.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
If you'll just follow me, mom and gents, I'll light
the way up to the house.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
With Matt Lanton. I can't understand it.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I distinctly turn upon you, but we should be here.
And if there's no light in his window, I say,
the length of a light in that little window was
not a door. That's the housekeeper's room. That is where
oh missus Burnstone sits.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What's that? What?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I'm sure I could just listen. It's a woman crying.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
You're right, by jove, mister Hobs. Something seems to be
a miss or well you'll come into the house with me.
Leave his certainly.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
And I think I'm a little afraid.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Nothing to feel as most, and I show you would
you have to take my hand?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Oh yes, thank you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Better alone, much better this most than my feeling. I
feel we should follow them.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh no, no, missus Bonstone. What he is the.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Mister sir, there is something, there's something in mister knew
my brother.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
He just left himself and went to listen to me.
Oh dear, I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Hear from you, And so now they had met, went
up and peep through. You must go up quickly.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You must God to look for yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
To be your lantern mc murder and you.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Stay here, of miss Marston, mister shutter Watson, come with
me quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh veriss room the first on the lift. How can
we see injured that there's no light in there?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, there's tent of moon light. Let's see, God, something damnable.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You take a look. Wasn't he's He's just.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Sitting there, the horrible smile on his face, looking human
throat that almost come down to fight together.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Then again, now this time, now we shall see.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
The sign of the four is one of the Sherlock
Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doll.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
We're presenting it in three parts. You've just heard part one.
My name is Norman Shelley.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
My friend Carlton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes, and I was
Doctor Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this DDC
production from London. Of course, I look forward to the
pleasure of your company again very soon for part two
of the Sign of the Ford
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