December 18, 2025 • 27 mins
Solve crimes with the great detective in "Sherlock Holmes Short Stories." Featuring classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, this podcast brings you the brilliant deductions and thrilling adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the world of Holmes, these timeless mysteries will keep you captivated.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Watson's expecting us. Let's not keep him waiting.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Good evening, Doctor, good evening. I don't get up vote you,
my boy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Of course, doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
A touch of rheumatism?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, no, f eighty holes of confident.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I hope that when i'm your age, doctor, I can
be half.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
As frightly nobody who don't mind, We won't discuss the
question my age. So drop your chair, make yourself comfortable.
I'll get on with the Night's to Sherlock Holmes adventures.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, from the hands you gave us last week, it
sounded like quite a spooky story.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It was about it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It certainly was.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Towards the end of November and the eighteen hundred and
ninety five, a dense yellow fog could settled down over
London for four or five days. It was impossible from
our rooms and vacan speet to see the outline of
houses up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A real London piece of for Handaga, that's my boy,
and it became most resting.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
The first day at Homes had spent in cross indexing.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Is huge book of criminal references.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The second and third had been patiently occupied with the
subject which he had recently made his hobby, the music
of the Middle Ages. If we're on the fourth day,
pushing back our chairs after breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We saw the greasy heavy browns.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops
upon the now panes. Sholock Holmes is an impatient and
active nature could endure this grab existence. No, he pays
for restlessly about our sitting room, fafing against the enaction.
After several minutes of these prambulations, he turned to me.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Having an interest in the paper.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Wasn't the usable revolution, possible war, an impending change in
the government.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Nothing to interest you, though? So crime is a very important.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
The London criminal is certainly a double and unenterprising fellow
these days. Look out of the window, Watson, see how
the figure's rumor a dimness scene and then blend once.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
More into the poggy depths. What a davor fee for
a murderer?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Get room, London, as the tiger does the jungle, unseen
until he pounces, and then evident only to his dickton
cheerful thought.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I must have one that is probably a visitor for
Missus Hudson.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Now, perhaps the local parmeters finally condescended to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Some attention to the faulty gas jet in our hallway.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't think you're right on our account.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I can hear Missus Hodson's footsteps on the stairs.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Karen, Karen, Yes, Missu Hudson, what is it?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Excuse me, mister, but there's a gentleman to see you,
says it's most important, and he asked me to give
you this.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Cat odama Halley, Eh, turn up busin, Missus Hudson.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Very good Mortimer Harley. And who's he?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I've not had the pleasure of meeting in personally, but
I'm quite familiar with his scientific repetition.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
What does he specialized?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I I suppose one my prefers him is one of
the greatest authorities in all matters connected me up out.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Do you mean the Pellow dabbles and supernatural stuff and
all that sort of thing?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I mean, Madiam Watson that Omahley is an extremely intelligent
man with a suoughly comprehensive and sculling and knowledge of
his field, and an intense belief in the existence of
the supernatural force.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And here he used to speak to himselves. Are come in, Halley?
Thank you, missus Hudson, you're mister Sherlock. Yes, sir, this
is my colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Doctor? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, two fellers probably wondering who I am and what's
brought me here?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
You We're not wondering who you are, mister Harley. My
friend Holmes is just telling me of your scientific eminence.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm fatter that you know of me, Holmes, just the
same you're wondering why I'm here naturally, sir. Well, since
you know I'm a student to be a cult I'll
get right down to my problem, mister Holmes. Have you
ever heard of the headless Monk of Venice Chapel?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Yes, indeed, mister Halley, an apparition to be counted among
our more intangible national treasures.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I should say.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I'm stupid, but I have never heard of the headless
Monk of whatever it is Chapel.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, then let me tell you about it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The Venice Manor in Cornwall was once an abbey. It
was expropriated during the reign of Henry the eighth, and
several of the monks were killed in some of the year.
Some of the minor difficulties attendant on such an act,
But one of the murdered monks, a certain brother, Hugh,
the chapel organist, was persistent. He still wants the chapel today.
(05:58):
He still plays the organ Constance who was beheaded. He
always appeared.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Charming little legends.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
But you don't expect us to believe it's anything but
the legends, how about you?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So I'm extremely curious to know why you come to
see me, Miss Darley.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I have a rare opportunity to investigate the phenomena. You see,
the son of an old fifth of mine, young fellow
by the name of Leonard Miles, is secretary to the
owner of Trevenice Manor. He asked me to stay there,
and I find the invitation irresistible, particularly since the phenomena
have furiously increased.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Of late mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Or, almost as though some more mortial agency were motivating them.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Now, oh, I see why you've come to me, mister Harley,
I knew you would, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You see, I'm like my good friend and fellow investigator Karnaky.
I believe in being prepared to meet phenomena on either
the natural or the supernatural plane. The phenomena are real,
they fall legitimately in my fears.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As far as if thumb as I'm sure you suspect
and con fified human forces. Then you think that's more
of my department day, Holly, what do you say?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Homes that hoably a nice through?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
A few days we published skip the fog down?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
There are places where the weather Watson, Huh, I'm much
more concerned with the puck that surrounds the appearances of
the hitless Monk of Ravenice Chapel and mister Harley, I
accept our invitation with pleasure. Still time to catch the
Cornish express. We can be a pravenous manner before.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The moon's Hello, who's this funny looking for? Coming down?
This steps towards?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If I didn't hear this under his footsteps, I believe
it was the psychic manifestation. Certainly looks as if he
came from beyond the grave.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
O be gentlemen, We'll be going.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Supposing you tell us who you are first, my good man, he'll.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Be I I be David ben Dragon, sir, That's who
I be. Stable And here at the Manor. I ask you,
gentlemen again, where you be going.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
We're staying at the man and we're just going to
take a look.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
At the chapel. Oh don't he do that, sir?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
People are going there don't often come out the way
they go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In, Sir, don't he do it? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
What are you talking about, my good palla.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I be talking about the ghoulies and the ghosties and
the organ music that comes out of the nowhere.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You've heard it, of course.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I heard it, sir, just like I've seen the poor
monk walking around without.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
His head on.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Take us into the chapel, will do? And I show
us where I hate that.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I will not not for all the golden portcor Will
I go back and chance see the poor lost soul
wandering about without his head on? If you, gentlemen, know
what's good for you, you're not going there either. Not
my words, don't he go in that chapel.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's well frightened in the place is.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But it's modern blind superstition that accounts for his reluctant
that's going, Jerry, I.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Suppose it tore great Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Listen to that the organ go spray. We are extremely
fortunate a psychic manifestation. Listen as we enter.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
A remarkable psychic manifestition. Rubbish, Look who's sitting at the
keyboard as Homes Homes, I was, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Do you fight us to death?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Did the horse speaking for myself? Doctory?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Disappointedly?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I thought it was a genuine phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What do you think you're doing? Homes? I thought you
were still behind us.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I'm sorry if I'd miriting you once more. I'm curious
about this organ. I slipped in by the side door
ahead of you and tested the instrument. It's an astonishingly
good condition for a disused chapel, mentioning Hollyod, Yes, I do, Homes,
one might reasonably resume that someone tends it with great care.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
In fact, I have a good further usay, what are
you doing in here?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
We are guests at the manor house, and we decided
to pay a visit to the chapel before we paid
our respects for our host.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh my father is your host.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I'm Dorothy Brown, and.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
My my name is sir Home, so these gentlemen have
to watching, mister Harrie.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Mister Harley, I heard the organ music, and I'm a
terribly frightened.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You've heard of the legend.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I suppose you mean about the headless monk and he
goes to the organ music, Miss.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Brandler, doctor, and it's more than a legend, I assure you.
That's why I rushed over here as soon as I
heard his goodness to frighten all the servants within hearing distance.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Why were you playing the orghan?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm curious to see whether it's in good repair.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Obviously it is, mister Holmes, well my father and is separate.
Mister Miles will expecting you, I know. Let's walk over
to the house, shall we. I'm sure you've seen enough
of the chapel for the night father.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It is mister Shella Coles and doctor what.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How do you do? How do you do? This is
my secretary Leonard and.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Mild doctor Watson, and the fat Brown is rather angry
with me.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
I hadn't told him that you were an expert and
psychic anomen a, mister Harley, I.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Failed to see why the knowledge of that fact would
make you angry, mister Browner.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I don't want you hereting about into this so called
ghost business. There's been enough trouble in the neighborhood already.
It's almost impossible to keep servants, and these cornish people
are incredibly superstitious.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You haven't seen the guest justself, mister brown.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Oh, of course, not to listen to any ghosts. I
tell you you heard the mysterious all them playing?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Uh well no, no I haven't, and I don't want
to talk about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes, yes, what is it, Pendragon? Is the door you're
really anxious to see? You, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Pen Dragon?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Very well? Tell him to come in?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yes, what does he want?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I wonder that the fellow we met outside the chapels
quite a colorful character.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He's a superstitious old fool, if you ask me, but
he is a good groom. Yes, pen Dragon, what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Begging your pardon?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But there'll be trouble at the chapel again tonight, I
says to myself, saved.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is your duty to go to the master?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I won't never mind the mind? What's the trouble?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
As the moon was hanging low tonight, sir, why he
is the organ aplane?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well that was mister Holmes, my good man.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Aye, that's what he thinks. Maybe what I says to
myself is what made him play the organ. Then this
very night I saw the endless think with my own eyes.
I saw that poor soul with his head off, wondering
in the moonlight. I saw that, sir, with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I do Oh, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You're blithering, old fool.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
And I'm warning you if I hear any more nonsense
about this ghost, you'll lose your job.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You understand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now, come along, g off.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
With you, I sir, begging your pardon, sir, Come on,
I'll give you a chapter.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Drink.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Mister Browner seems absolutely reaped on the subject of the ghost.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Then, yes, suspiciousness. So what about he's trying to hid
whatever it is. I don't think he'll be successful.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
In your profession, homes, you know that murder will out.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
In my profession.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Also try to suppress them as you may, gentlemen, ghost
will allow it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well happens.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
This place may be haunted, but I swear I never
spent a better night anywhere. A good morning, mister Holley,
good morning, Good morning. I'm glad to see I'm not
the only laker you are, late Tusor.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, doctor, I decided to ignore the veiled threats of
mister Brown, and so I did a little investigating in
the chapel if you mind perssing, if you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Could and prop the results of your investigations, mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, there was no psychic manifestation, you understand, But I'm
sure of one thing. That chapel is evil. Evil to
the hearts of its stones, and I'll swear that hevil
does not them from the hapless monk who was murdered.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
There some certain suspicions aroused by my own investigations last night.
There is evil again, mister Halley, and I think I
know it's nature, unless I mistake every sign and reaction
has been initiating the.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Local contract of the Eagles of the Black Mass.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Good Lord, shocking thought.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
My own sensations last night confirm your fairy homes. There
is the tavern here, and I swear it hiding its
own obscene practices under cover of the haunting.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That sounds quite feasible.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
After all, the people are so superstitious that their people,
who as far away as possible from the chapel when they.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
When they heard the organ playing.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Problem falls into both fields, Holley, the practice of black
magic is a criminal offense just.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
As well the old laws against witchcraft are still in force.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Imagine, mister Harley, that you have your own methods of
combating such posses as.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're up against New Years homes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Mine are not connected with the legal aspect of the case.
I ask what you plan to do so well. I
have several elaborate preparations to make doctor. It'll take me
most of the day, I'm afraid further. I shall explain
them to you all after dinner tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Hurchm it's pleasure to sit here after a good dinner
with a superb brand it one's over. Listen to the
piano being so daringly play.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I want to play something, Bomas day. Are you enjoying
your stay down here? Over?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Thank you of mister Harry and I have found the
local folklore extremely interesting.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
See you fellas having been investigating the haunted battle business again?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Have you oh here?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
If you have, I should be very angry. It's abusing
my hospital. I told you distinctly I didn't want any
more talk of ghosts.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm not talking of ghosts, My dear mister Brownley, I
have something even more important that I must fight now.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It's possibly a little hard.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
To imagine me as a crusader, me the stoop little
man beside the fourth of view as toweringly tall a
quartet of men as I have ever faced.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And yet I am your saint George. What on earth
are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'll tell you in secret care. This mustn't reach the
ears of the peasantry. I refer to myself as Saint George,
because I go to wipe out an evil that lives
in your midst, a living modern wagon man to ride
you all of this fiend, I must cleanse the chapel,
purify it, exercise it, remove its residue.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Of psychic evil.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That, gentleman, is my mission to night.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Nor fainting, get some smelling salt quatre.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And afaid you a little too, grads harm.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm sorry by frightening the young lady, but I I
am sure that after tonight she will have no further
grounds for fear in for venice manner.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, ol, Chad, did you hear anything? Nothing but the
owls and the fox frightening d.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Night I'm getting up to jumper. What do you suppose
Hort is up to? I can imagine his procedure midnight.
The cufis persion is endeavors. I wish him luck.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
My own plans are not nearly a steer unfortunately, since
a guiding fosse here.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But I like the clues you hos.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Whitens.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's talking on the chapel and Holler is not alone.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Come alone.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
This is your feeling pockets man, Just come on watch them.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Something isn't horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You'll hear the rest of that Watson story in just
a second. You know, A moment ago, I told you
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I didn't tell you that Petrie sherry is the all round,
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It's laster dinner too, and of course later in the
evening when you're listening to the radio with some friends,
(18:05):
a glass of Petrie sherry is just the thing. And say,
Patrick makes two kinds of sherry, the regular and Petree
pale dry, to make sure you get the one that
you like best. Do what I do, don't buy one
by two, but remember always by Petrick, doctor Watson, that
was a heck of a place to break off your.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Story and let us continue to speedily as possible. As
soon as we heard that devilish organ music, Holmes and
I rushed out of the house and raced in the
moon lock down the path leading to the ruined chapel.
By the time we reached the entrance, the organ music
could cease, and the tall, gangling figure of David Pendragon
was standing in our pass.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You gentlemen be wanting it this storm night?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
I be here because the gentleman gave me five shillings
to stand outside here and see that no one disturbed him.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's why to be here, and nobody didn't come or go.
He still be there, he be.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
When you heard that organ music, Why the devil didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You go in organ music? Or you heard no organising? Watson,
Great heavens, look at him.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's too late, qua devil the night through his heart.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's obvious who did it?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well, a fen dragon. I'll don't grab him.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Man, this nervous plan with devilish cunning.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Serious, seeing the sign of a struggle at all, he
just stood here and allowed himself to be stabbed.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
He is a shark knox with which the body is surrounded.
They're known as a pentagram.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Ugly.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
He thought it would protect him completely from the supernatural forces.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Once his researches went too far.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yes, because they touched not on the supernatural, but upon
natural evil. And remember Watson with only three people besides ourselves,
and David Pendragon knew of this vigil.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes Brown, his daughter and young Miles a secretary.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Exactly go back to the house, will you, and bring
them here. Perhaps we can lay a ghost by clapping
a murderer.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And that's all I know.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Mister her you've not established much of our homes. Feel
the more sweat they were asleep, and that they didn't
hear the organ.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, then you can't prove otherwise. I think I can
prove that one of you was not only awake, but
also murdered mor of Mahalle.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Why should any of us want the poor man?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Did your young lady? I confess that I find it
hard to conceive the motives.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Implying that mister brownlie and I might have one of Miles.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You must admits if you're responsible for mister Harley coming here.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
You, mister Brownley, mister, admit that you did everything in
your power to prevent the dead man from carrying out
his investigations. Why are you trying to hide nothing. It's
just that I wanted to sell the manor house. All
this talk about ghosts was giving the pace a bad name.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I should have gone on. I've never had disposed of
the properles. Well, speculation can get us nowhere. Let's get
on the fact. Is there any other entrance to this
chapel besides the two doors?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
None?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Oh, there was an old smuggler's cave which came out
in near the organ loft, but father had he picked
up ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I had to Morris kept crawling in. We don't examined
it with it?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
What if you don't mind my saying so, mister Holmes,
we'll get this murder you told us. David Pendragon admitted
that no one went in or out, as he's still God.
He mustn't himself or the man's half with it, and.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Superstitious he might have killed me to Harley because he
would attending to decay.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
With the ghost, and then played the organ to celebrate
the occasion.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I think you overestimate David pen Dragon's capabilities, Miss Blownley,
Mister Miles pen Dragon is waiting outside, would you be
kind of not to ask him to come here for
a moment?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Please? Uh have to find out Watson's.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Easy to see where it was pricked up, but it's
a solid wall up. No one could get in that way.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
But if no one came in or up, who else
could have killed Harley except pen Dragon? The ghost, or
rather the person disguised as a ghost dead man expected
a psychic manifestation when he when he saw the supposed
ghost coming towards him, he offered no resistance.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He believed that the magical pentagram would protect him.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Ah, Dave here, I be, sir, but I don't know
nothing more than what I told you.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't pit fighting pen Dragon. All we want is
the truth. That's what I told you, sir, And tell
us a little more, will you?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
When you said no one had entered the chapel tonight,
you meant that no motor man had entered.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Didn't you that I did, sir?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
How could I say I'd seen the ghost when mister
Brownley here told me I'd lose my job if I
spoke of the ghost again, and.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I'm getting somewher.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
So you did see the ghost, we did, sir, The
poor soul walking through the moonlight with no head on
his body skills clearly as I sees you now, sir,
that's all was he would you would you mind standing
against the.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Walls and has cause he was as tall as well.
His shoulders come to just where your shoulders come.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Now a toll man, then, so we narrow it down
to either you, mister Brownley, or you, mister Mile.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
This is happily ridiculous on the country. Gentlemen, the case
is solved.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Which one of them was at home? Either?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Remember that the ghost is hidless. That means that the
impost I must have built up. Take show us covering
the head on either of these men. It would have
brought their shoulders to the level of my head, right possible?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Bravo Home, I didn't think you catch me doorify.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, I don't fill one of.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Those death soon any of you come near me?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Did you see I have a revolver sorropy? For Heaven's sake,
take me of heaven, your God. I was a sweet
little girl, didn't your father?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
You didn't know your dear till your daughter could murder
a man?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Why did you kill Mona Mahea?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
For months, I've been practicing black men for months. I've
been building up the legend of the headless months and
the organ music.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It made me so wonderfully alone, so gloriously see to
practice the right.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
And then he came here. I let him live the
first night because I thought it was a fool But
on second when he said he was going to exercise
this chat to purifize as he said, he signed his
death warrant.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
If you could have kan his face, if you could
only have fad his stupid toddles face as I flung.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
The knife into him, sorbs so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Oh she's mad as a hat.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
What are we going to do that, revolver?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And yet you take me to prison asylum.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
No, you'll never text me.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
She's like up the stairs leading to the organ law
come back, look ready to find.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You and turn my head. Oh no, it's your home knife.
Oh my poor little girl.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Mister Bradley, the powers of evil are fighting. Your daughter
had killed one man and might have killed more. She
was insane, hopelessly insane.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Well, doctor, that was quite an exciting story. I wish
I could play the organ and write music for it.
There's nothing like music to really express his thought.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I just imagine the kind of music you'd write, probably
catch a little gits such as the family took the
time to.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Bring you such good wine. So when you eat and
when you drink, remember Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh no, doctor, is that the way I affect you?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Along on the level, you could probably write beautiful music
to describe the way the grapes look on the vine
in the sunlight. But what music could tell you about
the Petrie family? How long they've been making fine wine.
You know, the Petrick family has been making wine for generations,
handing on down from father to sutton, from father to son,
the knowledge necessary to transform luscious sun ripe and California
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grapes into delicious, fragrant wine. And when you see that
named Patrie on a bottle of wine, remember you're not
looking at a mere trademard. That name Petrie is the
personal assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of
wine in that bottle meets their unusually high standards. Petrie
wine is always good wine. It's got to be because
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Petrie took time to bring you wine. Well, Doctor Watson,
what new Sherlock Holm's Adventure do.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You have lined up for us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Think next week, mister Baucher. I'm going to tell you
a story that started quiet enough.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Holmes and I started a London dinner party, and yet
before the evening was over, we found ourselves involved in
one of the most shocking scandals.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That've ever rocked London's society.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Sherlock Holmes's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Angony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in Sir Athur Conan
Doyle's story The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Music is
by Dean Posterlor. Mister Rathburn appears through the courtesy of
Metro Goldwen mayor mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures,
where they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
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The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family.
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This is the mutual Broadcasting Sir
Petrie Wine brings you as Blackbone and Nigel Bruce and
the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the
family that took time to bring you good wine.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Invite you to.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Listen to doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he
shared with his old friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
And as for me, well, I'd like to tell you
the easiest way I know to get the reputation of
being the perfect host. Next time friends come over for dinner,
before you sit down to the table, serve glasses of
Petrie California's sherry.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Petrie sherry is the best.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Beginning a good meal ever.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Have I say.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Petrie sherry Because Petrie sherry is extraordinary sherry. You can
tell by looking at hold it to the light, Notice
how clear it is, Notice its beautiful, deep amber colored.
And you can tell Petrie sherry is unusual from just
a whiff of it's fright. And of course, in the
last analysis, you can tell just how fine a wine
Petrie Sherry is by tasting. That's the best test of all,
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and that's where you'll get the most pleasant surprise, because
Petrie sherry really makes wonderful a flavor right from the
heart of the great. So serve Petrie Sherry to your
family and your friends, and serve it proudly, because the
name Petrie is the proudest name in the history of
American wines. And now I'm sure our good friend doctor
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Watson's expecting us. Let's not keep him waiting.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Good evening, Doctor, good evening. I don't get up vote you,
my boy.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Of course, doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
A touch of rheumatism?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, no, f eighty holes of confident.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I hope that when i'm your age, doctor, I can
be half.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
As frightly nobody who don't mind, We won't discuss the
question my age. So drop your chair, make yourself comfortable.
I'll get on with the Night's to Sherlock Holmes adventures.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, from the hands you gave us last week, it
sounded like quite a spooky story.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It was about it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It certainly was.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Towards the end of November and the eighteen hundred and
ninety five, a dense yellow fog could settled down over
London for four or five days. It was impossible from
our rooms and vacan speet to see the outline of
houses up.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A real London piece of for Handaga, that's my boy,
and it became most resting.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
The first day at Homes had spent in cross indexing.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Is huge book of criminal references.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The second and third had been patiently occupied with the
subject which he had recently made his hobby, the music
of the Middle Ages. If we're on the fourth day,
pushing back our chairs after breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
We saw the greasy heavy browns.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops
upon the now panes. Sholock Holmes is an impatient and
active nature could endure this grab existence. No, he pays
for restlessly about our sitting room, fafing against the enaction.
After several minutes of these prambulations, he turned to me.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Having an interest in the paper.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Wasn't the usable revolution, possible war, an impending change in
the government.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Nothing to interest you, though? So crime is a very important.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
The London criminal is certainly a double and unenterprising fellow
these days. Look out of the window, Watson, see how
the figure's rumor a dimness scene and then blend once.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
More into the poggy depths. What a davor fee for
a murderer?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Get room, London, as the tiger does the jungle, unseen
until he pounces, and then evident only to his dickton
cheerful thought.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I must have one that is probably a visitor for
Missus Hudson.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Now, perhaps the local parmeters finally condescended to pay.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Some attention to the faulty gas jet in our hallway.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't think you're right on our account.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I can hear Missus Hodson's footsteps on the stairs.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Karen, Karen, Yes, Missu Hudson, what is it?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Excuse me, mister, but there's a gentleman to see you,
says it's most important, and he asked me to give
you this.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Cat odama Halley, Eh, turn up busin, Missus Hudson.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Very good Mortimer Harley. And who's he?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I've not had the pleasure of meeting in personally, but
I'm quite familiar with his scientific repetition.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
What does he specialized?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I I suppose one my prefers him is one of
the greatest authorities in all matters connected me up out.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Do you mean the Pellow dabbles and supernatural stuff and
all that sort of thing?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I mean, Madiam Watson that Omahley is an extremely intelligent
man with a suoughly comprehensive and sculling and knowledge of
his field, and an intense belief in the existence of
the supernatural force.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And here he used to speak to himselves. Are come in, Halley?
Thank you, missus Hudson, you're mister Sherlock. Yes, sir, this
is my colleague, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Doctor? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well, two fellers probably wondering who I am and what's
brought me here?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
You We're not wondering who you are, mister Harley. My
friend Holmes is just telling me of your scientific eminence.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm fatter that you know of me, Holmes, just the
same you're wondering why I'm here naturally, sir. Well, since
you know I'm a student to be a cult I'll
get right down to my problem, mister Holmes. Have you
ever heard of the headless Monk of Venice Chapel?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Yes, indeed, mister Halley, an apparition to be counted among
our more intangible national treasures.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I should say.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I'm stupid, but I have never heard of the headless
Monk of whatever it is Chapel.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, then let me tell you about it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The Venice Manor in Cornwall was once an abbey. It
was expropriated during the reign of Henry the eighth, and
several of the monks were killed in some of the year.
Some of the minor difficulties attendant on such an act,
But one of the murdered monks, a certain brother, Hugh,
the chapel organist, was persistent. He still wants the chapel today.
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He still plays the organ Constance who was beheaded. He
always appeared.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Charming little legends.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
But you don't expect us to believe it's anything but
the legends, how about you?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So I'm extremely curious to know why you come to
see me, Miss Darley.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I have a rare opportunity to investigate the phenomena. You see,
the son of an old fifth of mine, young fellow
by the name of Leonard Miles, is secretary to the
owner of Trevenice Manor. He asked me to stay there,
and I find the invitation irresistible, particularly since the phenomena
have furiously increased.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Of late mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Or, almost as though some more mortial agency were motivating them.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Now, oh, I see why you've come to me, mister Harley,
I knew you would, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You see, I'm like my good friend and fellow investigator Karnaky.
I believe in being prepared to meet phenomena on either
the natural or the supernatural plane. The phenomena are real,
they fall legitimately in my fears.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
As far as if thumb as I'm sure you suspect
and con fified human forces. Then you think that's more
of my department day, Holly, what do you say?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Homes that hoably a nice through?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
A few days we published skip the fog down?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
There are places where the weather Watson, Huh, I'm much
more concerned with the puck that surrounds the appearances of
the hitless Monk of Ravenice Chapel and mister Harley, I
accept our invitation with pleasure. Still time to catch the
Cornish express. We can be a pravenous manner before.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The moon's Hello, who's this funny looking for? Coming down?
This steps towards?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If I didn't hear this under his footsteps, I believe
it was the psychic manifestation. Certainly looks as if he
came from beyond the grave.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
O be gentlemen, We'll be going.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Supposing you tell us who you are first, my good man, he'll.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Be I I be David ben Dragon, sir, That's who
I be. Stable And here at the Manor. I ask you,
gentlemen again, where you be going.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
We're staying at the man and we're just going to
take a look.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
At the chapel. Oh don't he do that, sir?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
People are going there don't often come out the way
they go.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
In, Sir, don't he do it? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
What are you talking about, my good palla.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
I be talking about the ghoulies and the ghosties and
the organ music that comes out of the nowhere.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You've heard it, of course.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
I heard it, sir, just like I've seen the poor
monk walking around without.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
His head on.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Take us into the chapel, will do? And I show
us where I hate that.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I will not not for all the golden portcor Will
I go back and chance see the poor lost soul
wandering about without his head on? If you, gentlemen, know
what's good for you, you're not going there either. Not
my words, don't he go in that chapel.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's well frightened in the place is.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But it's modern blind superstition that accounts for his reluctant
that's going, Jerry, I.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Suppose it tore great Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Listen to that the organ go spray. We are extremely
fortunate a psychic manifestation. Listen as we enter.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
A remarkable psychic manifestition. Rubbish, Look who's sitting at the
keyboard as Homes Homes, I was, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Do you fight us to death?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Did the horse speaking for myself? Doctory?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Disappointedly?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I thought it was a genuine phenomenon.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What do you think you're doing? Homes? I thought you
were still behind us.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I'm sorry if I'd miriting you once more. I'm curious
about this organ. I slipped in by the side door
ahead of you and tested the instrument. It's an astonishingly
good condition for a disused chapel, mentioning Hollyod, Yes, I do, Homes,
one might reasonably resume that someone tends it with great care.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
In fact, I have a good further usay, what are
you doing in here?
Speaker 6 (09:55):
We are guests at the manor house, and we decided
to pay a visit to the chapel before we paid
our respects for our host.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh my father is your host.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I'm Dorothy Brown, and.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
My my name is sir Home, so these gentlemen have
to watching, mister Harrie.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Mister Harley, I heard the organ music, and I'm a
terribly frightened.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
You've heard of the legend.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I suppose you mean about the headless monk and he
goes to the organ music, Miss.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Brandler, doctor, and it's more than a legend, I assure you.
That's why I rushed over here as soon as I
heard his goodness to frighten all the servants within hearing distance.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Why were you playing the orghan?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm curious to see whether it's in good repair.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Obviously it is, mister Holmes, well my father and is separate.
Mister Miles will expecting you, I know. Let's walk over
to the house, shall we. I'm sure you've seen enough
of the chapel for the night father.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It is mister Shella Coles and doctor what.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How do you do? How do you do? This is
my secretary Leonard and.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Mild doctor Watson, and the fat Brown is rather angry
with me.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
I hadn't told him that you were an expert and
psychic anomen a, mister Harley, I.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Failed to see why the knowledge of that fact would
make you angry, mister Browner.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I don't want you hereting about into this so called
ghost business. There's been enough trouble in the neighborhood already.
It's almost impossible to keep servants, and these cornish people
are incredibly superstitious.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You haven't seen the guest justself, mister brown.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Oh, of course, not to listen to any ghosts. I
tell you you heard the mysterious all them playing?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Uh well no, no I haven't, and I don't want
to talk about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes, yes, what is it, Pendragon? Is the door you're
really anxious to see? You, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Pen Dragon?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Very well? Tell him to come in?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yes, what does he want?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I wonder that the fellow we met outside the chapels
quite a colorful character.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He's a superstitious old fool, if you ask me, but
he is a good groom. Yes, pen Dragon, what is it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Begging your pardon?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But there'll be trouble at the chapel again tonight, I
says to myself, saved.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Is your duty to go to the master?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I won't never mind the mind? What's the trouble?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
As the moon was hanging low tonight, sir, why he
is the organ aplane?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well that was mister Holmes, my good man.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Aye, that's what he thinks. Maybe what I says to
myself is what made him play the organ. Then this
very night I saw the endless think with my own eyes.
I saw that poor soul with his head off, wondering
in the moonlight. I saw that, sir, with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I do Oh, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You're blithering, old fool.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
And I'm warning you if I hear any more nonsense
about this ghost, you'll lose your job.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You understand.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now, come along, g off.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
With you, I sir, begging your pardon, sir, Come on,
I'll give you a chapter.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Drink.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Mister Browner seems absolutely reaped on the subject of the ghost.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Then, yes, suspiciousness. So what about he's trying to hid
whatever it is. I don't think he'll be successful.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
In your profession, homes, you know that murder will out.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
In my profession.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Also try to suppress them as you may, gentlemen, ghost
will allow it.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well happens.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
This place may be haunted, but I swear I never
spent a better night anywhere. A good morning, mister Holley,
good morning, Good morning. I'm glad to see I'm not
the only laker you are, late Tusor.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, doctor, I decided to ignore the veiled threats of
mister Brown, and so I did a little investigating in
the chapel if you mind perssing, if you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Could and prop the results of your investigations, mister Harley.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, there was no psychic manifestation, you understand, But I'm
sure of one thing. That chapel is evil. Evil to
the hearts of its stones, and I'll swear that hevil
does not them from the hapless monk who was murdered.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
There some certain suspicions aroused by my own investigations last night.
There is evil again, mister Halley, and I think I
know it's nature, unless I mistake every sign and reaction
has been initiating the.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Local contract of the Eagles of the Black Mass.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Good Lord, shocking thought.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
My own sensations last night confirm your fairy homes. There
is the tavern here, and I swear it hiding its
own obscene practices under cover of the haunting.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That sounds quite feasible.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
After all, the people are so superstitious that their people,
who as far away as possible from the chapel when they.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
When they heard the organ playing.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Problem falls into both fields, Holley, the practice of black
magic is a criminal offense just.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
As well the old laws against witchcraft are still in force.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Imagine, mister Harley, that you have your own methods of
combating such posses as.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're up against New Years homes.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Mine are not connected with the legal aspect of the case.
I ask what you plan to do so well. I
have several elaborate preparations to make doctor. It'll take me
most of the day, I'm afraid further. I shall explain
them to you all after dinner tonight.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Hurchm it's pleasure to sit here after a good dinner
with a superb brand it one's over. Listen to the
piano being so daringly play.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I want to play something, Bomas day. Are you enjoying
your stay down here? Over?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Thank you of mister Harry and I have found the
local folklore extremely interesting.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
See you fellas having been investigating the haunted battle business again?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Have you oh here?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
If you have, I should be very angry. It's abusing
my hospital. I told you distinctly I didn't want any
more talk of ghosts.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm not talking of ghosts, My dear mister Brownley, I
have something even more important that I must fight now.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It's possibly a little hard.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
To imagine me as a crusader, me the stoop little
man beside the fourth of view as toweringly tall a
quartet of men as I have ever faced.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And yet I am your saint George. What on earth
are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'll tell you in secret care. This mustn't reach the
ears of the peasantry. I refer to myself as Saint George,
because I go to wipe out an evil that lives
in your midst, a living modern wagon man to ride
you all of this fiend, I must cleanse the chapel,
purify it, exercise it, remove its residue.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Of psychic evil.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That, gentleman, is my mission to night.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Nor fainting, get some smelling salt quatre.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And afaid you a little too, grads harm.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm sorry by frightening the young lady, but I I
am sure that after tonight she will have no further
grounds for fear in for venice manner.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, ol, Chad, did you hear anything? Nothing but the
owls and the fox frightening d.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Night I'm getting up to jumper. What do you suppose
Hort is up to? I can imagine his procedure midnight.
The cufis persion is endeavors. I wish him luck.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
My own plans are not nearly a steer unfortunately, since
a guiding fosse here.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But I like the clues you hos.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Whitens.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's talking on the chapel and Holler is not alone.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Come alone.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
This is your feeling pockets man, Just come on watch them.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Something isn't horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You'll hear the rest of that Watson story in just
a second. You know, A moment ago, I told you
how much I thought you'd like Petrie California's sherry. But
I didn't tell you that Petrie sherry is the all round,
all American. Why you cannot only serve Petri sherry before dinner?
It's laster dinner too, and of course later in the
evening when you're listening to the radio with some friends,
(18:05):
a glass of Petrie sherry is just the thing. And say,
Patrick makes two kinds of sherry, the regular and Petree
pale dry, to make sure you get the one that
you like best. Do what I do, don't buy one
by two, but remember always by Petrick, doctor Watson, that
was a heck of a place to break off your.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Story and let us continue to speedily as possible. As
soon as we heard that devilish organ music, Holmes and
I rushed out of the house and raced in the
moon lock down the path leading to the ruined chapel.
By the time we reached the entrance, the organ music
could cease, and the tall, gangling figure of David Pendragon
was standing in our pass.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
You gentlemen be wanting it this storm night?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
I be here because the gentleman gave me five shillings
to stand outside here and see that no one disturbed him.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's why to be here, and nobody didn't come or go.
He still be there, he be.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
When you heard that organ music, Why the devil didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You go in organ music? Or you heard no organising? Watson,
Great heavens, look at him.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's too late, qua devil the night through his heart.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's obvious who did it?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well, a fen dragon. I'll don't grab him.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Man, this nervous plan with devilish cunning.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Serious, seeing the sign of a struggle at all, he
just stood here and allowed himself to be stabbed.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
He is a shark knox with which the body is surrounded.
They're known as a pentagram.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Ugly.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
He thought it would protect him completely from the supernatural forces.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Once his researches went too far.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yes, because they touched not on the supernatural, but upon
natural evil. And remember Watson with only three people besides ourselves,
and David Pendragon knew of this vigil.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yes Brown, his daughter and young Miles a secretary.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Exactly go back to the house, will you, and bring
them here. Perhaps we can lay a ghost by clapping
a murderer.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And that's all I know.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Mister her you've not established much of our homes. Feel
the more sweat they were asleep, and that they didn't
hear the organ.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, then you can't prove otherwise. I think I can
prove that one of you was not only awake, but
also murdered mor of Mahalle.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Why should any of us want the poor man?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Did your young lady? I confess that I find it
hard to conceive the motives.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Implying that mister brownlie and I might have one of Miles.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You must admits if you're responsible for mister Harley coming here.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
You, mister Brownley, mister, admit that you did everything in
your power to prevent the dead man from carrying out
his investigations. Why are you trying to hide nothing. It's
just that I wanted to sell the manor house. All
this talk about ghosts was giving the pace a bad name.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I should have gone on. I've never had disposed of
the properles. Well, speculation can get us nowhere. Let's get
on the fact. Is there any other entrance to this
chapel besides the two doors?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
None?
Speaker 9 (20:54):
Oh, there was an old smuggler's cave which came out
in near the organ loft, but father had he picked
up ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I had to Morris kept crawling in. We don't examined
it with it?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
What if you don't mind my saying so, mister Holmes,
we'll get this murder you told us. David Pendragon admitted
that no one went in or out, as he's still God.
He mustn't himself or the man's half with it, and.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Superstitious he might have killed me to Harley because he
would attending to decay.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
With the ghost, and then played the organ to celebrate
the occasion.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
I think you overestimate David pen Dragon's capabilities, Miss Blownley,
Mister Miles pen Dragon is waiting outside, would you be
kind of not to ask him to come here for
a moment?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Please? Uh have to find out Watson's.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Easy to see where it was pricked up, but it's
a solid wall up. No one could get in that way.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
But if no one came in or up, who else
could have killed Harley except pen Dragon? The ghost, or
rather the person disguised as a ghost dead man expected
a psychic manifestation when he when he saw the supposed
ghost coming towards him, he offered no resistance.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He believed that the magical pentagram would protect him.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Ah, Dave here, I be, sir, but I don't know
nothing more than what I told you.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't pit fighting pen Dragon. All we want is
the truth. That's what I told you, sir, And tell
us a little more, will you?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
When you said no one had entered the chapel tonight,
you meant that no motor man had entered.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Didn't you that I did, sir?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
How could I say I'd seen the ghost when mister
Brownley here told me I'd lose my job if I
spoke of the ghost again, and.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I'm getting somewher.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
So you did see the ghost, we did, sir, The
poor soul walking through the moonlight with no head on
his body skills clearly as I sees you now, sir,
that's all was he would you would you mind standing
against the.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Walls and has cause he was as tall as well.
His shoulders come to just where your shoulders come.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Now a toll man, then, so we narrow it down
to either you, mister Brownley, or you, mister Mile.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
This is happily ridiculous on the country. Gentlemen, the case
is solved.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Which one of them was at home? Either?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Remember that the ghost is hidless. That means that the
impost I must have built up. Take show us covering
the head on either of these men. It would have
brought their shoulders to the level of my head, right possible?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Bravo Home, I didn't think you catch me doorify.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No, I don't fill one of.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Those death soon any of you come near me?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Did you see I have a revolver sorropy? For Heaven's sake,
take me of heaven, your God. I was a sweet
little girl, didn't your father?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
You didn't know your dear till your daughter could murder
a man?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Why did you kill Mona Mahea?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
For months, I've been practicing black men for months. I've
been building up the legend of the headless months and
the organ music.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It made me so wonderfully alone, so gloriously see to
practice the right.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
And then he came here. I let him live the
first night because I thought it was a fool But
on second when he said he was going to exercise
this chat to purifize as he said, he signed his
death warrant.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
If you could have kan his face, if you could
only have fad his stupid toddles face as I flung.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
The knife into him, sorbs so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Oh she's mad as a hat.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
What are we going to do that, revolver?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
And yet you take me to prison asylum.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
No, you'll never text me.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
She's like up the stairs leading to the organ law
come back, look ready to find.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
You and turn my head. Oh no, it's your home knife.
Oh my poor little girl.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Mister Bradley, the powers of evil are fighting. Your daughter
had killed one man and might have killed more. She
was insane, hopelessly insane.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Well, doctor, that was quite an exciting story. I wish
I could play the organ and write music for it.
There's nothing like music to really express his thought.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I just imagine the kind of music you'd write, probably
catch a little gits such as the family took the
time to.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Bring you such good wine. So when you eat and
when you drink, remember Petree wine.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh no, doctor, is that the way I affect you?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Along on the level, you could probably write beautiful music
to describe the way the grapes look on the vine
in the sunlight. But what music could tell you about
the Petrie family? How long they've been making fine wine.
You know, the Petrick family has been making wine for generations,
handing on down from father to sutton, from father to son,
the knowledge necessary to transform luscious sun ripe and California
(25:57):
grapes into delicious, fragrant wine. And when you see that
named Patrie on a bottle of wine, remember you're not
looking at a mere trademard. That name Petrie is the
personal assurance of the Petrie family that every drop of
wine in that bottle meets their unusually high standards. Petrie
wine is always good wine. It's got to be because
(26:18):
Petrie took time to bring you wine. Well, Doctor Watson,
what new Sherlock Holm's Adventure do.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You have lined up for us next week?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Think next week, mister Baucher. I'm going to tell you
a story that started quiet enough.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Holmes and I started a London dinner party, and yet
before the evening was over, we found ourselves involved in
one of the most shocking scandals.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That've ever rocked London's society.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Sherlock Holmes's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Angony Boucher,
and was suggested by an incident in Sir Athur Conan
Doyle's story The Adventure of the Devil's Foot Music is
by Dean Posterlor. Mister Rathburn appears through the courtesy of
Metro Goldwen mayor mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures,
where they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.
(27:25):
The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you
to tune in again next week, same time, same station.
Sherlock Holmes comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Petrie family.
(27:45):
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