December 19, 2025 • 28 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):
This episode from the Life of Sherlock Holmes will be
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From the stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood. Pet
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invite you to listen to doctor Watson tell us about
another exciting adventure he shared with his old friend, that
Master Detective Sherlock Holmes. You know something, If right now
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And now for our weekly doctor's appointment, let's knock on
his library door and see if.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
There's no point in doing that, missus petric I'm right
behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hello, doctor Watson, don't tell me you've been stalking me.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
M was on the patio and I heard your footsteps,
so I thought that i'd.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come in and fetch you. Let's go back and sit
out there. Shall wait.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's a beautiful evening.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
At fine with me, doctor. Ah, Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'll settle myself down in a churn and light a
cigarette if you have one.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I'll get on with my story.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Last week, who told us a concern and adventure that
you and Sherlock Holmes had in Flanders during the First
World War.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's right, the society did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I thought that you and the Great Man had retired
at that period we had my boy.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But it was unly natural that as soon as the
war broke out we both offered our services in any
capacity that might help our country.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Of course, and odd it's a night story again, doctor.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was in the winter of that first year. Things
weren't going very well for the Allies. The Germans advanced
on Palace and the picture.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Was looking very black.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was just twenty four hours before the famous Battle.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Of the Marne began.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The battle had changed the early course of the war.
When Holmes told me that we had to go up
to the front lines on a secret mission. We'd been
in Paris for several weeks, but Homes just solved the
case of the missing Atacoon.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I was anxious to get back to Aland and my work.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In the war hospitals.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But of course this new summons was in the nature
of the command, and so late on a rainy September afternoon,
Holmes and I, with a boom of gunfire and ar eas, found.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Our doves in the front seat of a staff.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Car, flushing and jolting its way towards the battle.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I haven't too fast, you gentmen, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not at all No, No, you're doing a splendid job. Man,
look out, considering the state of the road, Like you said, hello,
the gunfar is getting near at homes?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yes, I imagine we're much further to go. Have this urgent, sir,
We're nearly there.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Have you noticed the two civilians and the back seat homes?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yes, answered woman. And a distinguished looking man several years
have seen you there. I'll tell you he's a Shakespearean
actor of some note who never achieved the faint which
he thinks he's entitled. I shouldn't get all surprised if
he feels that he's been slighted in not perceiving a knighthood.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, it's amazing, saying, how can you possibly reduce all
that from just looking at man as.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Got into the car elementary, My dear fellow, I didn't
deduce this. We saw him twice last year in the
London theater. If you're ron, his name is Michel Morris.
Answer his biography. He's a friend of my brother Mike Crofts.
He told me about him.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
What do you suppose he's doing up here in the
front line.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
His brother is General Sis Stanley Morris, who's command of
this particular front stand.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It would seem reasonable to presume that he is brother.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Has come up here to get the performance with the
front line troops. I suppose this hut is as far
as we can black Sergeant on Frida se sir, we're
four miles from the front line. Now you have to
clear your papers.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Here. See that ruined farm house there, sir, Yes, sergeant, the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
General's headquarter, Yes, sir, Come on, Watson, good lord, it's
pelting with ray here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Let's take a dash for it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Who goes there?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Friend, give the boss Saint Crispin past friends and show
your papers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
How did you know the past word holmes?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I was given it the formular tennis check slock Holmes
from Dr Watson, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
There's Captain and Captain Maxwell. General Morris's day. You can't.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He asked people to scort you up to his headquarters
by the way, where Mason Morris and his wife in
the car with him.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, there just behind us. It was splendid. I'm afraid
I her to last be your papers.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Here's here's my permit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Captain Maxwell, thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I know you're both. Of course, if we can't afford
to take any chances when they're good close the gat
mid Lions.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Let's see. Oh yeah, this that's fine, doctor. Everything's in order,
is yours?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Please?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Mister Helms, here you are? Thanks? Who goes there? Friends?
This is quite in order, mister Helms, papers, there you are,
Captain Max Hello, missus Murrett. Oh are you getting nex well?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And you've both met mister Kellock Holmes and doctor Watson.
I suppose no, we haven't, even though we drove up
in the same car. Natural reserve of us British as
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh, miss Holmes, how do you do some I know
your brother Micraft very well. How are you doctor?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Knowing there to me choo to Morris, I saw you
a couple of times the third last year and Georgia
performances with my phone.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But then you must know my wife, my leading lady.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Gentlemen? How can I see your papers? Mister Mortters, it's
just a matter of reform you want.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, yes, missus Morris, I assume you and your husband
are going to give her performance tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
For the men going up the front line. He is doctor.
We're very flattered.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
They've asked us to do some Shakespearean things, although I
should have thought something a little lighter would have been
more appropriate. The general he's Baker's brother, you know, thinking dips.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Where my dear show Captain Max for your papers.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Then we can all go along and see my brother
Stanway very well. Amazing, mister Morris, dyes will look forward
to curing your reading of shakespeare Saint Cristian speech from
Henry the Fifth tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
P press my soul, Holmes, How did you know I
was planning to do it? Well? Was setting us so
perfect in the times? So appropriate?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't conceive an English actor who could resist the temptation.
I noticed that your brother appreciated the fact in naming
today's password. Yes, it's amazingly appropriate. You know it's almost
five hundred years ago to the day that the Battle
of Agincour took place.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, let's hope that the results of the forthcoming battle
will be equally successful.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
For yes, indeed, oh, by the way, homes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
This will probably seem rather stilly, do.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You, But I'm an invetered autographic collector, and I have my.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Book Shore with me. I wonder if you'd minds signs reglected,
mister Morris give me a fin what.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Home you'll find yourself and quite distinguished company in that book, sir,
So I see Andelia Patti Pincer Norwich. Oh no Feltis.
Oh yes, she was one of my admirers when I.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Fill in Munich before the war.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I suppose now that our countries are fighting, I should
tear that page out.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you know I cannot help but feel that art
the appreciation of art are independent of national hatred.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Criit so, sir, I myself still have a medal presented
to me by the University of Leipzig for some trifling
services no one, mister Morris, Oh, thank.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You very much, Miss Hopes, a notable addition to my collection.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I shall be regret to sign your for him tomorrows if.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You'd like mature. That's very kind of a doctor, Captain Maxwell.
If in order, don't you think we should be moving along?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's just what I was going to suggest by So
I'll take you all straight up to General Morrison's headquarters.
General Morris, they I introduced mister Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How do you do so? How do you know a
lot about?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Were long way from Baker Street, to do it. Yes,
where is that brother of mine? Oh there you are, Maitland, Cincia.
How nice to see you both again.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The men will be glad you arrived, looking forward to
your show tonight. We're very flattered that they want to
hear us do some Shakespeare. Oh rubbish, old boy. With
you and Cynthia up there on the platform, you could
read the telephone book and they'd love your father very kind.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Either way, you will find the stage very primitive, just
a few trestles in a large tent and a curtain
made of army blankets, and your dressing rules will be
eaten worse.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh, don't worry about our comfort, Stanley. As long as
we cheer the boys out, that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Of course. By the way, what program you have mapped up? Well?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I thought we'd have two shows. The tent's not large
enough to hold everybody at once, anybody anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We have to keep up an alert all the time.
I think you can manage two wear separate shows off
because I can stand it. I may look over and
I don't feel it. You don't look.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
So you can take a look at the stage and equipment,
and certainly Captain Maxwell take them over to the tent
and show them what the facilities are with you, right,
would you follow me?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Of course, all right, I'm glad you're here, homes. I'm
so I can speak quite freely in front of doctor
Watson or yes, with perfect freedom, zoned, he's my colleague.
There's no old army man himself?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Really? What regiment first?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nor fomland Fels later a text the butchers in Afghanison
wanted in the battle of mainline?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Really? And then I'm sure I can speak pretty and
while from Holmes. You know why you're up here so
near the front line, don't you. I have a very
shrewd suspicion, sir, I thought you had. That's why I
asked for you to be sentire. You asked for me
to be sent here, General, Yes, I understand.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You will doctor in due time.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
In the meanwhile, gentlemen, I'll have an orderly show you
to your quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Thank you, sir, and home, sir, take.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A look around and keep your ears.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Were comparatively a little distance from the German front lines,
and yet there's a very puzzling silence just now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I noticed that half an hour ago, on our way
up first, there's quite not a shilling exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's unnatural and rather frightening at a time like this.
You see, we're attacking at dawn. The enemy might be
trying to infiltrate spies, and the old success of this
battle depends on a surprise attack.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I quite understand Sir Colm Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Home Home.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The first performance starts in a few minutes. You know
they're all there waiting. Why are you travling about up
here in the mud in the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Rain for the pipe to the open air, But cheer
our brains.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Pipe in the open air is one thing that the
piponer down over.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Rains another is it raining? Didn't even notice it. I
was listening to the silence.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Thousands upon thousands of Germans, armed, Germans full of applying's
and ethical hatred and desire to kill.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I've crouched in frenches only a mile or two from
the air.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Surrounding outside an equal number of English boys, also armed
and for the will, if not the desire, to fight,
because they know their cause is the cause of freedom
and justice. All these thousands poised, ready to pounce on
each other and fight to the death and get beyond
that patter of rain. There isn't to it but the
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sound to break the stillness of the September evening.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
H strange world.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
We live in old chap you'll be unusual tollical home.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, I am not that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's be a little more practical, charlw I wonder what
is wrong with the actors tonight? Well, you asked, Well,
a little while ago I noticed missus Morris in a
great state of excitement, surging towards the farmhouse the General is,
and she went back to her own quarters.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And now she seems to be headed in our direction.
Anything wrong, missus Morris?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Maitland, what's wrong with the Madam? He disappeared?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What's happened? We were the tend together.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Making up rop upon when in orderly came into the message.
Maitland said it was from his brother Kit on the raincoat,
and without seeing me back in a few moments, I
waited and waited, and after a while I got worried.
Now we don't miss the general myself. He said that
he said, no madage, and that he hadn't seen.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Any sign that Maitland, good, Laura, what kind of I
don't know this, but I've frightened it what you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like, do mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You're a brave woman, Missus Morris, brave. I don't know,
mister Holmes. Why the show must go on? I shall
take your husband's place at home.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Something's happened to make for Morris.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You can daan jer to button two, but a thousands
inside that tenter in mortal danger too.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Tomorrow morning, any of them maybe.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Copses on the fields of Pandas, But tonight they've been
promised to show.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Do you think that you can do it?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Home? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think I can with the help of Missus Morris.
I can't do it this home, can Missus Morris, And
you will, if only to uphold that great tradition of
the kitter. But the show must go on.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
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And now back to tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure. It
is just before the Battle of the Marne in the
First World War and Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson are
at headquarters a few miles behind the front line trenches.
A famous Shakespearean actor who was to get the performance
for the troops has mysteriously disappeared, and the great detective
has taken his place. At the last minute, we rejoin
our story. Sherlock Holmes, alone on the improvised stage, is
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delivering a Shakespearean speech before a spellbound life.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Happy, This little world, this precious stone, set in a
silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall,
or as the most defensive to a house against the
envy of less happier lamps.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
This blessed plot, this earth, this rome, this England, homes
that shot.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Are you all right, yes, old chap Fortunately I started
to believe the stage as the shot was fired.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The bullet just missed me. It's splinter some wood nearby.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But who on earth would want to shoot you?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's what we've got to find out. I think it
more likely that the shot was intended for me. It
was not intended for me, but for Maitland Morris, the
man for whom I'm substitute.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Even so, who'd want to shoot him?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Don't ask me any questions, author, Let's see what clues
we can find now. The shot was fired from outside
the tent, from behind me. Yes, look there you a
hole in the tent.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There by show vius footlights without climb your.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Shadow on the back of the tent. Whoever it must
have as a found at your silhouette.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The question is where did the bullet in bed itself? Huh?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Look here, Watson, we've got a pen knife. Yeah, they
shouldn't be hard to expect. Look at this splintered tent pole.
A minute, Okay, here we are excellent. Huh, very interesting?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well, what's so interesting about him?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Just to revolve a bullett, Watson? But that's far from
just a revolve a bullet. This bullet was fired from
a German Luca pistol.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
A German pistol must have been a pie here behind
our lines.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
That's a reasonable enough, his sumpson, as we may be
sure that no English soldier would carry such a weapon
and face inspection. Come on, I want to talk to
missus Morris, Missus Morris, I want you to be very
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frank with me, so to cause, mister Holmes, you know
why your husband's missing, don't you?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
No, No, I don't have you found out about why
I keep up this pretense any longer.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I know that your husband is a spy or a fist,
a great sympathizer with the German cause, the General's brother
spy good law.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Because it's true by an artist has been suspicious of
his sympathis for some time. His own brother knew it,
as why I asked to have me sent up here
to keep an eye on him during his visit.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It is true?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Why should I keep up the pretense any longer?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You see?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Maitland was a disciple of Stuart Houston Chamberlain, who was
his student.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Houston Chamberlain an Englishman who married one of Richard Wagner's
daughters and became a German citizen and an arch enemy
of England.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I'll try to dissuade Maitland. I implored him to consider
his British heritage, his brother's name and mind.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But Nathan was a strange man.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
His life was one of frustration, in envy, enry of
his brothers. Bose Yes, when Stanley was knighted, it it
hurt Maitland terribly. He said. It was typical if the
English wore kni a soldier and yet leave a great
artist like himself unrecognized in Berlin. They rarely understood and
rewarded the artist.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well if the thoughts knew, that's amazingly allowed him to
cons al close to the front.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Lines at a time like this, which was at the
general's request. He wanted to plead with my husband to
warn him that his secret was nttan. And now Maitland
gone over to the German line.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, it's worse than that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It's disastrous.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He can give them information.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
This is strength of our troops here. He knows the password,
he might.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Even know the y.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The attack is time to start.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
How did your husband expect to men of the German
lines in safety?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Missus Morris.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
He speaks fluent German matter, Holmes, I fancied the autographs
will keep us carrying, containing his signature A field marshal
Son Talkknitz with. In reality, he's passed through the German line.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You told the generals that his father was done. Of
course I haven't been able to.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
He moved up to the front line position immediately to
the first performance, though I had warned him what I
thought Maidan was planning to do. I think he intended
the idiot's performance first, then crossed the lines immediately afterwards.
But something must have made him change his mind. Perhaps
he suspected I'd warned the general. Anyhow, as you know,
when I got back to our quarters he'd gone, did
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he note, Madam, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Here it is thank you I have done.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
My dear, try and understand, and if you can, it
wouldn't come with me. And so I'm taking what is
left of my heart and my hopes where they belong
among the friends that understand and appreciate me. It is
something stronger than love and blood and country that makes.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Me do this.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It is something dearer to me than life. It's so
dear to me than light itself. Could oh Cordy the
shame of this will kill for Stanley.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Litter home.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Will you break the news to him?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I know it's cowardly of me, but I just can't
tell him myself.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'll tell him, Dr Watson, I will ask Captain Maxwell
to escott us to the General's front line headquarters in
the meantime, trying to calm We'll.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Tell him.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
If you were waiting in the dug art, Mister Helms,
I will tell the General, but chere here, thank.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You, and be sure to let him know the urgency
of the matter.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
This is a dreadful business.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, this is Watson.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
If my plans work out correctly, I think the success
of tomorrow's battle may not being kidled.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Listen, you know, Holmes.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
A strange silence from the German line since we came
here might be accounted for by the fact that they
knew Maitland was making his getaway. They wouldn't want to
risk woundings such a valuables far quite possibly. What I
still don't understand is we shot at you with a
German pistol, and why having.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Very dense help. Surely it's odd music they come General
Morris now this is going.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
To be a dreadful shock to him.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hello, Holmes.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Dr Watson, Denyl Morris, I'm afraid that I bad news
for you. Your brother has gone over to the German limes.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Maitland did go there.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I should have put him under an arm god as
soon as he came here, but I thought I could
reason with him, appeal to his sense of honor, instead
of which you tried to shoot him there. But fortunately
for me you missed. You see, I took his place
at the first performance.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That shot was fired from a German patrol.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That was when I first knew the General at fired shot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
But I still don't see how you could.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Now only a high ranking officer not subject to inspect
and could carry a non regulation firearm.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
You no darmy man.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
You know that in any case, you'll observe that the
General carries a lugud. It is way straight Heaven's homes are.
I thought I was firing at Maitland.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I have no idea that that it was you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You intended to kill your own brothers, yes, and I'm
sorry I failed her. Rather see my brother dead alive
on a traitor to his country. But now he's safely
in the German lines. Heaven knows what secrets he may
be imparting one thing, we can be certain a chance
of a surprise attack in the morning is gone.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That's been answer.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
What do you mean do you took the liberty of
alter brother's credentials quite extensively p I knew of his
German sympathetis Micat had given me a great deal of
information about him, and so I took it on myself
to decide that it was unsafe to allow him so
near the enemy lines with his own identification on him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, what did to do?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I took the liberty s earl of stealing his autograph book,
the one containing the magical signature of Field Marshal on Toknitz.
I have it in my pocket now I think we
shall find with his pages of code concealed in the
various autographs giving valuable information to the enemy good law.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I also switched to military permits on him.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I felt that in the event that he did go
over to the German lines, his work might be less
cordial if they were under compression, that they had captured
shlock homes to make that identification.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
W sure.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I also slipped in his pocket a slight.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Soupernir of my own word Jerhomes.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You mean that medal was presented to by the University
of Life.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Six that actual fome I no longer wish to own
a decoration.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Given me by country of barbarians, and it seemed to
have a neat and effective way of returning it to them.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So the Germans will think they captured Charlotron. Yes, sir,
and as I much mistaken, he'll receive very short script
at the hand.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, I hate you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
As your answer, sir.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Sorry, don't be sorry, Holmes, It's better that way now
his secret can die with him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Excuse me, sirm, Yes, net Fel. What is it would
it be in order for me to return to headquarters?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Tauser, It's very dearly time for the second performance, and
i'd still been now able to trace the word batacle.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
My brother will not be acting tonight, I'm afraid, Holmes.
How one time might ask you to take his place
once again?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
If you want me to general, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Maitland had planned to do the Sat Crispin speech from
Henry fit he knew how much I loved I realize that, sir, But.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I was told the password up here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Can you remember the speech?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Home?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh? I think so?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
At any rate I can fry, then do it for me,
my dear fellow, Will you for me, I'll be very
planned to do it. General, goodbye and good luck, Thank you, Holmes,
Faptain Natwell take them back to headquarters. Will you will
be waiting for the performance.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Christians will now go by from this day to the
ending of the world. But we in it were remembered.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
We few, we happy, few, we band of brothers. Or
he today that chants his blood with me shall be
my brother be in ass or file this day, so
gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now a bed
shall think themselves a curse.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
They were not here, and all their manhood's cheap. While
then he speaks that fuck with us upon Saint Christian's Day. Well, Michael,
that was a bit of an exciting adventure here.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I can still remember that awful feeling I had when
I heard the.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Shot in the tent whom if someone.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Had tried to kill home he did have a narrow escape.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Holmes always said, no such thing as a narrow escape.
He said, you are escaped or you didn't. If you
a worry, and if you didn't, you couldn't worry.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So quite a philosophy. I'd like to discuss it with
you further over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
How else, what kind of wine?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
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delicious wine than Petree. That's because the Petrie family knows
how to make good wine. They are do. They've been
making fine wine ever since they started the Petree business
way back in the eighteen hundreds. And because the business
has always been family owned and operated well, they've been
able to hand on from father to son, from father
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matter what time Petre wine you buy for any occasion,
you can be sure it's good wine, because Petree took
time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
I was about giving us a clue the next week's
shirlock Home.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Next week, miss Clatter, I'm going to tell you and
I must unusually venture much Holmes and I are trapped
in an airtight metal chamber. Only competant being a murdered
scientist sounds like a story we don't want to miss.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Doctor. See you next week, Oh, just a second letter
before we go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I just want to tell our listeners that tonight we're
broadcasting from the stage of the Paramount Theater here in
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They're needed to pay for new super faults, hu jet
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Speaker 2 (26:33):
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Speaker 3 (26:35):
The Japanese War has just begun.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Let's go all.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Out for the mighty Seventh Warlons the Night. Sherlock Cohn's
adventure is written by Dannis Green and Anthony Botcher and
is based on an incident of these Arthur Conan Doyle story,
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
The three.
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This is Jack Slattery saying good night for the pet
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it were possible for me to ask every one of
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And now for our weekly doctor's appointment, let's knock on
his library door and see if.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
There's no point in doing that, missus petric I'm right
behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hello, doctor Watson, don't tell me you've been stalking me.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
M was on the patio and I heard your footsteps,
so I thought that i'd.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come in and fetch you. Let's go back and sit
out there. Shall wait.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's a beautiful evening.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
At fine with me, doctor. Ah, Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'll settle myself down in a churn and light a
cigarette if you have one.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I'll get on with my story.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Last week, who told us a concern and adventure that
you and Sherlock Holmes had in Flanders during the First
World War.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's right, the society did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I thought that you and the Great Man had retired
at that period we had my boy.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But it was unly natural that as soon as the
war broke out we both offered our services in any
capacity that might help our country.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Of course, and odd it's a night story again, doctor.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was in the winter of that first year. Things
weren't going very well for the Allies. The Germans advanced
on Palace and the picture.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Was looking very black.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It was just twenty four hours before the famous Battle.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Of the Marne began.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
The battle had changed the early course of the war.
When Holmes told me that we had to go up
to the front lines on a secret mission. We'd been
in Paris for several weeks, but Homes just solved the
case of the missing Atacoon.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I was anxious to get back to Aland and my work.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In the war hospitals.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But of course this new summons was in the nature
of the command, and so late on a rainy September afternoon,
Holmes and I, with a boom of gunfire and ar eas, found.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Our doves in the front seat of a staff.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Car, flushing and jolting its way towards the battle.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I haven't too fast, you gentmen, you're.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Not at all No, No, you're doing a splendid job. Man,
look out, considering the state of the road, Like you said, hello,
the gunfar is getting near at homes?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yes, I imagine we're much further to go. Have this urgent, sir,
We're nearly there.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Have you noticed the two civilians and the back seat homes?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yes, answered woman. And a distinguished looking man several years
have seen you there. I'll tell you he's a Shakespearean
actor of some note who never achieved the faint which
he thinks he's entitled. I shouldn't get all surprised if
he feels that he's been slighted in not perceiving a knighthood.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, it's amazing, saying, how can you possibly reduce all
that from just looking at man as.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Got into the car elementary, My dear fellow, I didn't
deduce this. We saw him twice last year in the
London theater. If you're ron, his name is Michel Morris.
Answer his biography. He's a friend of my brother Mike Crofts.
He told me about him.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
What do you suppose he's doing up here in the
front line.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
His brother is General Sis Stanley Morris, who's command of
this particular front stand.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It would seem reasonable to presume that he is brother.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Has come up here to get the performance with the
front line troops. I suppose this hut is as far
as we can black Sergeant on Frida se sir, we're
four miles from the front line. Now you have to
clear your papers.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Here. See that ruined farm house there, sir, Yes, sergeant, the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
General's headquarter, Yes, sir, Come on, Watson, good lord, it's
pelting with ray here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Let's take a dash for it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Who goes there?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Friend, give the boss Saint Crispin past friends and show
your papers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
How did you know the past word holmes?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I was given it the formular tennis check slock Holmes
from Dr Watson, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
There's Captain and Captain Maxwell. General Morris's day. You can't.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He asked people to scort you up to his headquarters
by the way, where Mason Morris and his wife in
the car with him.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, there just behind us. It was splendid. I'm afraid
I her to last be your papers.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Here's here's my permit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Captain Maxwell, thank you.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I know you're both. Of course, if we can't afford
to take any chances when they're good close the gat
mid Lions.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Let's see. Oh yeah, this that's fine, doctor. Everything's in order,
is yours?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Please?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Mister Helms, here you are? Thanks? Who goes there? Friends?
This is quite in order, mister Helms, papers, there you are,
Captain Max Hello, missus Murrett. Oh are you getting nex well?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And you've both met mister Kellock Holmes and doctor Watson.
I suppose no, we haven't, even though we drove up
in the same car. Natural reserve of us British as
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh, miss Holmes, how do you do some I know
your brother Micraft very well. How are you doctor?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Knowing there to me choo to Morris, I saw you
a couple of times the third last year and Georgia
performances with my phone.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But then you must know my wife, my leading lady.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Gentlemen? How can I see your papers? Mister Mortters, it's
just a matter of reform you want.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, yes, missus Morris, I assume you and your husband
are going to give her performance tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
For the men going up the front line. He is doctor.
We're very flattered.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
They've asked us to do some Shakespearean things, although I
should have thought something a little lighter would have been
more appropriate. The general he's Baker's brother, you know, thinking dips.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Where my dear show Captain Max for your papers.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Then we can all go along and see my brother
Stanway very well. Amazing, mister Morris, dyes will look forward
to curing your reading of shakespeare Saint Cristian speech from
Henry the Fifth tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
P press my soul, Holmes, How did you know I
was planning to do it? Well? Was setting us so
perfect in the times? So appropriate?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I can't conceive an English actor who could resist the temptation.
I noticed that your brother appreciated the fact in naming
today's password. Yes, it's amazingly appropriate. You know it's almost
five hundred years ago to the day that the Battle
of Agincour took place.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, let's hope that the results of the forthcoming battle
will be equally successful.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
For yes, indeed, oh, by the way, homes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
This will probably seem rather stilly, do.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You, But I'm an invetered autographic collector, and I have my.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Book Shore with me. I wonder if you'd minds signs reglected,
mister Morris give me a fin what.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Home you'll find yourself and quite distinguished company in that book, sir,
So I see Andelia Patti Pincer Norwich. Oh no Feltis.
Oh yes, she was one of my admirers when I.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Fill in Munich before the war.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I suppose now that our countries are fighting, I should
tear that page out.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Do you know I cannot help but feel that art
the appreciation of art are independent of national hatred.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Criit so, sir, I myself still have a medal presented
to me by the University of Leipzig for some trifling
services no one, mister Morris, Oh, thank.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You very much, Miss Hopes, a notable addition to my collection.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I shall be regret to sign your for him tomorrows if.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You'd like mature. That's very kind of a doctor, Captain Maxwell.
If in order, don't you think we should be moving along?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's just what I was going to suggest by So
I'll take you all straight up to General Morrison's headquarters.
General Morris, they I introduced mister Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How do you do so? How do you know a
lot about?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Were long way from Baker Street, to do it. Yes,
where is that brother of mine? Oh there you are, Maitland, Cincia.
How nice to see you both again.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The men will be glad you arrived, looking forward to
your show tonight. We're very flattered that they want to
hear us do some Shakespeare. Oh rubbish, old boy. With
you and Cynthia up there on the platform, you could
read the telephone book and they'd love your father very kind.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Either way, you will find the stage very primitive, just
a few trestles in a large tent and a curtain
made of army blankets, and your dressing rules will be
eaten worse.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Oh, don't worry about our comfort, Stanley. As long as
we cheer the boys out, that's the important thing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Of course. By the way, what program you have mapped up? Well?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I thought we'd have two shows. The tent's not large
enough to hold everybody at once, anybody anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
We have to keep up an alert all the time.
I think you can manage two wear separate shows off
because I can stand it. I may look over and
I don't feel it. You don't look.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
So you can take a look at the stage and equipment,
and certainly Captain Maxwell take them over to the tent
and show them what the facilities are with you, right,
would you follow me?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Of course, all right, I'm glad you're here, homes. I'm
so I can speak quite freely in front of doctor
Watson or yes, with perfect freedom, zoned, he's my colleague.
There's no old army man himself?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Really? What regiment first?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nor fomland Fels later a text the butchers in Afghanison
wanted in the battle of mainline?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Really? And then I'm sure I can speak pretty and
while from Holmes. You know why you're up here so
near the front line, don't you. I have a very
shrewd suspicion, sir, I thought you had. That's why I
asked for you to be sentire. You asked for me
to be sent here, General, Yes, I understand.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You will doctor in due time.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
In the meanwhile, gentlemen, I'll have an orderly show you
to your quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Thank you, sir, and home, sir, take.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A look around and keep your ears.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Were comparatively a little distance from the German front lines,
and yet there's a very puzzling silence just now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I noticed that half an hour ago, on our way
up first, there's quite not a shilling exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's unnatural and rather frightening at a time like this.
You see, we're attacking at dawn. The enemy might be
trying to infiltrate spies, and the old success of this
battle depends on a surprise attack.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I quite understand Sir Colm Watson.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Home Home.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The first performance starts in a few minutes. You know
they're all there waiting. Why are you travling about up
here in the mud in the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Rain for the pipe to the open air, But cheer
our brains.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Pipe in the open air is one thing that the
piponer down over.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Rains another is it raining? Didn't even notice it. I
was listening to the silence.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Thousands upon thousands of Germans, armed, Germans full of applying's
and ethical hatred and desire to kill.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I've crouched in frenches only a mile or two from
the air.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Surrounding outside an equal number of English boys, also armed
and for the will, if not the desire, to fight,
because they know their cause is the cause of freedom
and justice. All these thousands poised, ready to pounce on
each other and fight to the death and get beyond
that patter of rain. There isn't to it but the
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sound to break the stillness of the September evening.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
H strange world.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
We live in old chap you'll be unusual tollical home.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yes, I am not that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's be a little more practical, charlw I wonder what
is wrong with the actors tonight? Well, you asked, Well,
a little while ago I noticed missus Morris in a
great state of excitement, surging towards the farmhouse the General is,
and she went back to her own quarters.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And now she seems to be headed in our direction.
Anything wrong, missus Morris?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Maitland, what's wrong with the Madam? He disappeared?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What's happened? We were the tend together.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Making up rop upon when in orderly came into the message.
Maitland said it was from his brother Kit on the raincoat,
and without seeing me back in a few moments, I
waited and waited, and after a while I got worried.
Now we don't miss the general myself. He said that
he said, no madage, and that he hadn't seen.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Any sign that Maitland, good, Laura, what kind of I
don't know this, but I've frightened it what you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Like, do mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You're a brave woman, Missus Morris, brave. I don't know,
mister Holmes. Why the show must go on? I shall
take your husband's place at home.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Something's happened to make for Morris.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You can daan jer to button two, but a thousands
inside that tenter in mortal danger too.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Tomorrow morning, any of them maybe.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Copses on the fields of Pandas, But tonight they've been
promised to show.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Do you think that you can do it?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Home? Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think I can with the help of Missus Morris.
I can't do it this home, can Missus Morris, And
you will, if only to uphold that great tradition of
the kitter. But the show must go on.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well the rest of Dr Watson's story in just a
few seconds time. I'd like to take to tell you
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And now back to tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure. It
is just before the Battle of the Marne in the
First World War and Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson are
at headquarters a few miles behind the front line trenches.
A famous Shakespearean actor who was to get the performance
for the troops has mysteriously disappeared, and the great detective
has taken his place. At the last minute, we rejoin
our story. Sherlock Holmes, alone on the improvised stage, is
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delivering a Shakespearean speech before a spellbound life.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Happy, This little world, this precious stone, set in a
silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall,
or as the most defensive to a house against the
envy of less happier lamps.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
This blessed plot, this earth, this rome, this England, homes
that shot.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Are you all right, yes, old chap Fortunately I started
to believe the stage as the shot was fired.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The bullet just missed me. It's splinter some wood nearby.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But who on earth would want to shoot you?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's what we've got to find out. I think it
more likely that the shot was intended for me. It
was not intended for me, but for Maitland Morris, the
man for whom I'm substitute.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Even so, who'd want to shoot him?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Don't ask me any questions, author, Let's see what clues
we can find now. The shot was fired from outside
the tent, from behind me. Yes, look there you a
hole in the tent.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
There by show vius footlights without climb your.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Shadow on the back of the tent. Whoever it must
have as a found at your silhouette.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The question is where did the bullet in bed itself? Huh?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Look here, Watson, we've got a pen knife. Yeah, they
shouldn't be hard to expect. Look at this splintered tent pole.
A minute, Okay, here we are excellent. Huh, very interesting?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well, what's so interesting about him?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Just to revolve a bullett, Watson? But that's far from
just a revolve a bullet. This bullet was fired from
a German Luca pistol.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
A German pistol must have been a pie here behind
our lines.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
That's a reasonable enough, his sumpson, as we may be
sure that no English soldier would carry such a weapon
and face inspection. Come on, I want to talk to
missus Morris, Missus Morris, I want you to be very
(16:50):
frank with me, so to cause, mister Holmes, you know
why your husband's missing, don't you?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
No, No, I don't have you found out about why
I keep up this pretense any longer.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I know that your husband is a spy or a fist,
a great sympathizer with the German cause, the General's brother
spy good law.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Because it's true by an artist has been suspicious of
his sympathis for some time. His own brother knew it,
as why I asked to have me sent up here
to keep an eye on him during his visit.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
It is true?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Why should I keep up the pretense any longer?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You see?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Maitland was a disciple of Stuart Houston Chamberlain, who was
his student.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Houston Chamberlain an Englishman who married one of Richard Wagner's
daughters and became a German citizen and an arch enemy
of England.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I'll try to dissuade Maitland. I implored him to consider
his British heritage, his brother's name and mind.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But Nathan was a strange man.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
His life was one of frustration, in envy, enry of
his brothers. Bose Yes, when Stanley was knighted, it it
hurt Maitland terribly. He said. It was typical if the
English wore kni a soldier and yet leave a great
artist like himself unrecognized in Berlin. They rarely understood and
rewarded the artist.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well if the thoughts knew, that's amazingly allowed him to
cons al close to the front.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Lines at a time like this, which was at the
general's request. He wanted to plead with my husband to
warn him that his secret was nttan. And now Maitland
gone over to the German line.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, it's worse than that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It's disastrous.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He can give them information.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
This is strength of our troops here. He knows the password,
he might.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Even know the y.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The attack is time to start.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
How did your husband expect to men of the German
lines in safety?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Missus Morris.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
He speaks fluent German matter, Holmes, I fancied the autographs
will keep us carrying, containing his signature A field marshal
Son Talkknitz with. In reality, he's passed through the German line.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You told the generals that his father was done. Of
course I haven't been able to.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
He moved up to the front line position immediately to
the first performance, though I had warned him what I
thought Maidan was planning to do. I think he intended
the idiot's performance first, then crossed the lines immediately afterwards.
But something must have made him change his mind. Perhaps
he suspected I'd warned the general. Anyhow, as you know,
when I got back to our quarters he'd gone, did
(18:59):
he note, Madam, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Here it is thank you I have done.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
My dear, try and understand, and if you can, it
wouldn't come with me. And so I'm taking what is
left of my heart and my hopes where they belong
among the friends that understand and appreciate me. It is
something stronger than love and blood and country that makes.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Me do this.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It is something dearer to me than life. It's so
dear to me than light itself. Could oh Cordy the
shame of this will kill for Stanley.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Litter home.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Will you break the news to him?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I know it's cowardly of me, but I just can't
tell him myself.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'll tell him, Dr Watson, I will ask Captain Maxwell
to escott us to the General's front line headquarters in
the meantime, trying to calm We'll.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Tell him.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
If you were waiting in the dug art, Mister Helms,
I will tell the General, but chere here, thank.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You, and be sure to let him know the urgency
of the matter.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
This is a dreadful business.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, this is Watson.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
If my plans work out correctly, I think the success
of tomorrow's battle may not being kidled.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Listen, you know, Holmes.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
A strange silence from the German line since we came
here might be accounted for by the fact that they
knew Maitland was making his getaway. They wouldn't want to
risk woundings such a valuables far quite possibly. What I
still don't understand is we shot at you with a
German pistol, and why having.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Very dense help. Surely it's odd music they come General
Morris now this is going.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
To be a dreadful shock to him.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Hello, Holmes.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Dr Watson, Denyl Morris, I'm afraid that I bad news
for you. Your brother has gone over to the German limes.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Maitland did go there.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I should have put him under an arm god as
soon as he came here, but I thought I could
reason with him, appeal to his sense of honor, instead
of which you tried to shoot him there. But fortunately
for me you missed. You see, I took his place
at the first performance.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That shot was fired from a German patrol.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That was when I first knew the General at fired shot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
But I still don't see how you could.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Now only a high ranking officer not subject to inspect
and could carry a non regulation firearm.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
You no darmy man.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
You know that in any case, you'll observe that the
General carries a lugud. It is way straight Heaven's homes are.
I thought I was firing at Maitland.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I have no idea that that it was you.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You intended to kill your own brothers, yes, and I'm
sorry I failed her. Rather see my brother dead alive
on a traitor to his country. But now he's safely
in the German lines. Heaven knows what secrets he may
be imparting one thing, we can be certain a chance
of a surprise attack in the morning is gone.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That's been answer.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
What do you mean do you took the liberty of
alter brother's credentials quite extensively p I knew of his
German sympathetis Micat had given me a great deal of
information about him, and so I took it on myself
to decide that it was unsafe to allow him so
near the enemy lines with his own identification on him.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, what did to do?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I took the liberty s earl of stealing his autograph book,
the one containing the magical signature of Field Marshal on Toknitz.
I have it in my pocket now I think we
shall find with his pages of code concealed in the
various autographs giving valuable information to the enemy good law.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I also switched to military permits on him.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I felt that in the event that he did go
over to the German lines, his work might be less
cordial if they were under compression, that they had captured
shlock homes to make that identification.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
W sure.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I also slipped in his pocket a slight.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Soupernir of my own word Jerhomes.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
You mean that medal was presented to by the University
of Life.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Six that actual fome I no longer wish to own
a decoration.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Given me by country of barbarians, and it seemed to
have a neat and effective way of returning it to them.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So the Germans will think they captured Charlotron. Yes, sir,
and as I much mistaken, he'll receive very short script
at the hand.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, I hate you.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
As your answer, sir.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Sorry, don't be sorry, Holmes, It's better that way now
his secret can die with him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Excuse me, sirm, Yes, net Fel. What is it would
it be in order for me to return to headquarters?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Tauser, It's very dearly time for the second performance, and
i'd still been now able to trace the word batacle.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
My brother will not be acting tonight, I'm afraid, Holmes.
How one time might ask you to take his place
once again?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
If you want me to general, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Maitland had planned to do the Sat Crispin speech from
Henry fit he knew how much I loved I realize that, sir, But.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I was told the password up here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Can you remember the speech?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Home?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh? I think so?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
At any rate I can fry, then do it for me,
my dear fellow, Will you for me, I'll be very
planned to do it. General, goodbye and good luck, Thank you, Holmes,
Faptain Natwell take them back to headquarters. Will you will
be waiting for the performance.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Christians will now go by from this day to the
ending of the world. But we in it were remembered.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
We few, we happy, few, we band of brothers. Or
he today that chants his blood with me shall be
my brother be in ass or file this day, so
gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now a bed
shall think themselves a curse.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
They were not here, and all their manhood's cheap. While
then he speaks that fuck with us upon Saint Christian's Day. Well, Michael,
that was a bit of an exciting adventure here.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I can still remember that awful feeling I had when
I heard the.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Shot in the tent whom if someone.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Had tried to kill home he did have a narrow escape.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Holmes always said, no such thing as a narrow escape.
He said, you are escaped or you didn't. If you
a worry, and if you didn't, you couldn't worry.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So quite a philosophy. I'd like to discuss it with
you further over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
How else, what kind of wine?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Uh? Naturally, Uh, naturally, you couldn't ask for a more
delicious wine than Petree. That's because the Petrie family knows
how to make good wine. They are do. They've been
making fine wine ever since they started the Petree business
way back in the eighteen hundreds. And because the business
has always been family owned and operated well, they've been
able to hand on from father to son, from father
to son all they've ever learned about the art of
(25:32):
turning luscious grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. That's why, no
matter what time Petre wine you buy for any occasion,
you can be sure it's good wine, because Petree took
time to bring you good wine. And now, doctor Watson,
I was about giving us a clue the next week's
shirlock Home.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Next week, miss Clatter, I'm going to tell you and
I must unusually venture much Holmes and I are trapped
in an airtight metal chamber. Only competant being a murdered
scientist sounds like a story we don't want to miss.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Doctor. See you next week, Oh, just a second letter
before we go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I just want to tell our listeners that tonight we're
broadcasting from the stage of the Paramount Theater here in
Hollywood on behalf of the Seventh Warloned Drive. The ticket
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Speaker 3 (26:13):
I'm inntioning this to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Remind you, our friends, that you have an important part
to play in making the Seventh War owner success.
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Buying bar and buy bigger bonds than ever before.
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They're needed to pay for new super faults, hu jet
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Speaker 2 (26:33):
Achievements of our force in the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The Japanese War has just begun.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Let's go all.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Out for the mighty Seventh Warlons the Night. Sherlock Cohn's
adventure is written by Dannis Green and Anthony Botcher and
is based on an incident of these Arthur Conan Doyle story,
(27:01):
The Adventures of the Blanche Soldier Mister Rathborn appears to
the courtesy of Metro Gogan Mayor mister Bruce with the
courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring in
the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petfree Wine Company of San Francisco,
(27:25):
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This is Jack Slattery saying good night for the pet
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