June 26, 2024 • 56 mins
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The Mercury Theater on the Air.A Columbia Broadcasting System takes pleasure in bringing
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you the Twelt in its series ofweekly broadcasts featuring Austin Welles and the Mercury
Theater on the Air. To night, Broadways and Radio's most celebrated theater for
producing Campanet brings to life the bestloved character in detective fiction, the immortal
Sherlock Holmes. The play is AustenWelles's own adaptation for radio William Jennetson during
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Melodrama, based on the famous storiesby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Before the
performance begins, here is the directorof the Mercury Theater, the star and
producer of these unique broadcasts, OrsonWelles. Evening Well Tonight, it's back
to Baker Street, back to thatunlikely London of the nineteenth century, where
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high adventure waits allow would seek itin a handsome cab or under a gas
lamp in an invenous cape. Butto night we pay tribute to the most
wonderful member of that most wonderful world, a gentleman who never lived and who
will never die. There are onlya few of them, these permanent profiles
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everlasting silhouettes on the edge of theworld. There is first the little hunchback
with a slapstick, whose hooked noseis shaped like his cap. There is
now and always will be the penguinfooted hobo in the derby, and the
baggy pants, and the small boywith a wooden head, and the long,
rusty knight on horseback, and thefat knight who could only procure a
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charge on foot. There is alsothe tall gentleman with a hawk's face,
and the underflung pipe, the foreignaft cap. We'd know them anywhere and
call them easily by name. Punchand the Charles Chaplain and MacCarthy Keelty,
Sir John and Sherlock Holmes. Nowirrelevant as this may seem, we of
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the Mercury Theater very much occupied thesedays with rehearsals for a revival of a
fine old American fut a lot ofyou will remember, if only for its
lovely title, which is too muchJohnson. Its author was William Gillette,
which reminded us as it reminds youof Sherlock Holmes. As everybody knows that
celebrated American inventor of under acting lenthis considerable gifts as a playwright to the
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indestructible legend of the Conan Doyle Detectiveand produced the play, which is as
much a part of the Holmes literatureas any of Sir Arthur's own romances,
and as nobody will ever forget,he gave his face to him for William
Gillette, with the aquiline and actualembodiment of Holmes himself. It's too little
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to say that William Gillette resembled SherlockColmbe's Surlock Holmbs looked exactly like William Gillette,
sounds like him too, were afraidand hoped devoutly that the Mercury theater
and the radio will take none ofthe glamor from the beloved fable of Baker
Street, from the pipe and theviolin, and the hideous purple dressing gown,
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from the needle and the cigar onthe window, ledge, and the
dry final famous lines alimentary and IdaWatson elimentary the mere Child's play of Deduction.
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My name is Watson. I ama doctor. It was near eighteen
eighty that Holmes and I were introducedby our mutual acquaintance. At the time,
we were both looking for a lodgingthat would suit our moderate means.
This we found on the second floorof a house at two thirty one B
Baker Street, and it was duringthe years that we occupied these chambers together
that Holmes established his unique international reputationas a consulting detective. During that time
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I was privileged to be his dailycompanions, and I have done my modest
care in giving to the world andaccount of some of his most famous cases.
Most famous of these are the onesof which I have written under the
names of the Second band SnO forHound of the Baskervilles and the Studying Scholar.
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They represent, however, only aminute fraction of the six hundred and
forty three cases Holmes successfully solved duringthe years that we shared the lodgings in
Baker Streets. Other cases I hopeone day to give to the world include
the Tarlatan Murders, the sudden deathof Cardinal Post, the adventure of Ricolette
of the thlub Foot and his AbominableWife, the case of Missus Ferrantogh,
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the Circuit Bell, and the caseof the Royal Family of Scandinavia, each
illustrated in their own way the remarkablegenius of my friend Sherlock Holmes. Since
my marriage three years ago, Holmeshas continued to occupy the Baker Street lodgings
by himself, and here almost everyafternoon when my work in the office is
finished, I am in the habitof calling on him. The sitting room
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as you go in is exactly asit has been for the past thirteen years.
The worn bearskin rug, the hugesofa covered with faded chints, the
mantle piece cluttered with miscellaneous objects,unanswered letters, and piles of loose tobacco
on one side of the fireplace,and a deep arm chair, his pipe
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curling forth slow wreaths of acrid tobacco. Draped in his hideous purple dressing gown,
said Sherlock Holmes, with his violinunder his chin, an, what's
my default? Are you home?I'm glad to see you, very good.
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Lighted upon my word, I am, but and sizes that your wife
has left up. She has goneon. There's a visit. But how
do you know? Not? DidI when I like that? How do
I know anything? How do Iknow? You've been getting yourself very wet
lately, that you an extremely carelessservant girl, and you moved your dressing
table, the outside of the roomholes. If you had lived a few
centuries ago, that had burned youalive. But your congregation would have saved
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me a great deal of trouble andextended on me. Now, how did
you know all that? Too simpleto talk about? Scratches and clumsy cuts?
My dear fell on the other sideof your shoe there as where the
firelight strikes it scratches cuts and justscraped the way crusted munts? Is it
badly, badly scraped the shoe alongwith it as your wet foot, My
dear Watson, you're careless, servengirl. Are on one shoe face blandly
shaved the right side always used tobe on the left. Light must on
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the other side. Couldn't very wellmove your window, must move theressing table,
of course, But how the deucedid you know? Why wife was
away? Where the juice is?Your second westcoat button? Was? What
the juce is yesterday's button here doingin today's the pell and why the deuced
you were the expression of a parlimentaryidea of elementary the child's player of production.
I'm only doing it for your amusementbefore we pass on to more serious
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matters once, my dear fellow,the enthusiasm which is prompted you to chronicle,
and if you would excuse my sayingso somewhat to embellish my little adventures,
the occasionally seemed fit to introduce acertain element of romance which struck me
as being a just a trifle outof place, something like working in elopement
into the fifth proposition of euclid.I merely refer to this in case you
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should see fits at some future time, to chronicle the case on which I'm
about to embark, the strange caseof Professor Robert Moriati. Morit I don't
remember ever having heard of the fellow. No whats and you haven't if I
see this quality of invisibility that makesof Professor Moriarty the Napoleon of crime,
sitting motionless like an ugly, venomousspider in the center of his web,
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but that web having a thousand radiations, and the spider knowing every quiver of
every one of them. And withinforty eight hours I'll have the lines drawn
so tightly around him that he can'tmove, and arrest him his entire gang.
This is a very dangerous, mydear Feld's perfectly delightful. My whole
life is spent in a series offrantic endeavors to escape from the dreary commonplaces
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of existence for a brief period.I escape, You congratulate me. The
day before yesterday I received in thisroom the visit of a certain foreign and
nobleman, was recently inherited a veryconsiderable title, and who was about to
be married. Seems that this titlegentleman so indiscreet as to fall in love
with a young English lady with thename of Faulkner, socially his inferior,
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and to make her a promise ofmarriage. Later, his family's insistence,
things broken off, and the younglady died shortly after a broken heart,
leaving behind his sister. Also considerableevidence in the storm of letters, photographs
and jewelry with inscriptions. These thesister kept. These, together with the
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sister, are now being held ina house in Saint John's Wood by a
pair of blackmailers who go to thename of Chetwood. So far as you
see, my dear, what sima fairly ordinary case of blackmail? Howd
it was my attention last night onmy inspection a certain element revealed itself,
which renders the case far more importantthan I had expected. And that element
was Professor Moriarte. And then thename of foreman, Yes, gleaning for
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him, leading a watching this inspectedforeman. The day before yesterday he occupies
the position of butler under the nameof Judson in the home of mister and
missus Check would black neighbors from John'sWood the foreman any news, Yes,
sir, this morning a little laughternine the Chetwood and his wife rode away
in a four wheeler. He returnedabout eleven. Basick was with them.
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You know him though years when Ilast turned the occasion to meet mister Pessick,
Hugh got two years for safe crekingand go on for him. Well,
they took this man bast into thelibrary. I gotta look at him
from the outside, and there hewas opening up the safe where they'd been
keeping a letter. Go on inthe end. When they got the safe
open, it was empty. Theletter's begone. That seems like the Forlkner
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girl got them back somehow. Igot them pretty excited. Dastick went out
to send a telegram. Yes,yes, he is, sir, Complode.
Mmm, myriaty I thought so Watson, this case is taking a most
promising turn. Foreman, He returnedonce to the house that sain John's Wood.
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Then ten minutes actually there myself.If I remember correctly, the kitchens
immediately below the drawing room. HM. Yes, when I knock over a
chair in the drawing room, youwill overturn a lamp in the kitchen,
scattered smoke balls and give an alarmof fire. All other instructions remain unchanged.
That he good for hi, Foreman, Well, my dear Watson begins
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to look like a most interesting evening. Hi, good evening. My name
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is Sherlock Holmes Holmes, thank youso much, mister Chadwood. I had
myself announced by the butler and myway up LA I didn't very well or
here he is have some begged misterHolmes to excuse her. She is not
well enough to see anyone this evening. Will you please hand this card miss
Fopper and say that I take yourpardon, mister Holmes. But it's quite
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useless. Really, Oh, I'mso sorry to hear it. Yes,
miss Portner, is I regret tosay, quite an inflation. She is
unable to see anyone. Her healthis so poor. Has it ever occurred
to you, mister Chedwood, thatshe might be confined to the house too
much? How does that concern you? It doesn't simply to make the suggestion.
I'd like to think it over abouthis name, Judson. Very well,
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Judson, go on, take mycard up? Very good, This
is really too good. Of coursehe can take up your card or your
note or whatever it is, ifyou wish it so much. I was
only trying to save you the trouble, thanks, any trouble at all.
Send if can you know, misterHolmes, you interest me very much on
my word. Yes, we've allheard of your wonderful methods as punishing manner
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in which you gain information from themost tifling details. Now I dare say,
in this brief moment or two,you've discovered any number of things about
me. Nothing CON's quence, messChadwyn. I hadly more than ask myself
why he was so distressed to seeme at this particular moment, and what
there can possibly be about the saintin the lower part of that desk to
cause you such painful anxiety. Verygood, very good. Indeed, if
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those things were only true now,I'd be wonderfully impressed. It would be
absolutely any Sir Judson, A messagefor you, mister Chetwell you'll excuse me.
I trust it's from miss Faulkner.Well, really she begs to be
allowed to see you, mister Holmes. She absolutely implores it. Well,
I suppose I shall have to giveway. Judson asked Miss Faukner to come
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down to the drawing room, saythat mister Holmes is waiting to see her.
Quite remarkable upon my soul. MayI ask, if it's not an
impertinent question, what message you sentup that could so have aroused Miss Paukner's
desire to come down. And thenthere is that she wasn't down here in
five minutes I'd go up. Ohthat was it? Yes, quite so,
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And unless I'm great mistaken, Ihear the young lady on the stairs,
which case she has a minute anda half to spare Alice, it
is miss Faulkner. Let me introducemister Sherlock Holmes. Mister Holme, Miss
Fauner. I'm really most charmed tomeet you, although I don't look as
if you'd made me come down inspite of myself, doesn't. I thank
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you very much, indeed for concerningto see me, Miss Faukner, that
regret to observe that you are putto the trouble of making such a very
rapid change of dress. I didthe hottest title. I can think.
Mister Holmes is quite living up tohis reputation, isn't he said? Come
in, yes, ma'am. Whatare you doing here? Doctor? I
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did man. I was answering thebell. What bell you're drawing on?
Bell? What do you mean youblock? Had no one rang the bell?
I'm quite sure it was round.Well, I tell you I did
not let your butler's right, misterChetwood, bell did ring? Or do
you know I rang it? Whatdo you want? I send my card
to the real miss Fuckner, Isaid, the real man Spotner. That's
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who years. Oh what why doyou bring the servants and your orders in
my house? What right have youto prevent my cards from reaching their destination?
How does this happen if you andthis woman are storting to trickery and
deceit to prevent me from seeing AlicePaupner for some tracking overside, Judson,
Neither of the cards I handed tohim has been delivered. Hand me see
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that this error does not occur againmy orders. You have orders. I
can't say you were told not todeliver my card. What business is it
of yours? I'd like to know. I shall satisfy your curiosity on that
point. It is very short time, mister Chetwood. Yes, and you'll
find out in a very short timethat it doesn't safe to meddle with me.
It wouldn't be any trouble at allfor me to throw you out into
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the street. And I possibly enoughthat trouble would swiftly follows such an experiment
on your past that has a luckything for you. I'm not army.
Yes, well, miss Pagner comesdown, you go and arm yourself myself.
I'll call the police. Oh no, you will not do it now.
You will remain where you are.And lady I came here to see
us enter this room because you wouldprefer to avoid an investigation of your suspicious
conduct. Mister James Larabeth, thatis the name under which you were known
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to Scotland Yard. I believe,mister Chetwood, the stady here is your
wife, Steal Johnson. You willeither deliver that card, Miss Falkner at
once or sleep in the police stationtonight. That a more consequence to me,
who should do? Shall I goor take up a card? It
makes no difference to me. Ashort time since verabill, you displayed an
acute anxiety to leave the room.Pray do not let me detain you or
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your wife any longer. Take youto prefer to remain. And I talked
to miss Faulkner. We do atthe home, Yes, mister home,
Yes you wish to see that verymuch. Indeed, Miss Faukner, that
I'm sorry to see that you arefar from will no beg your pardon?
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What does this mark mean? Oh? Nothing? And the mark here on
your neck plain issuing the clutch ofthe man's fingers. Does that mean nothing?
Also, because neither that. Ishould like to have an explanation of
this. Possibly you can furnish one, mister let It seems to have occurred
in your own house. You've gotto understand that it doesn't help me for
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you or anyone else to interfere withmy business. It is your business.
Here's that much. At least,pray be seated, Mis Forkner. I
don't know who you are, misterHolmes, or why you were here.
I shall be very glad. Indeed, to explain my business is this I
have been consulted. It's the possibilityof obtaining from you certain letters addressed to
your sister, which is supposed tobe in your position. I cannot give
up my sister there but my dearnalssquer Oh, I'm so sorry. How
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comes with me to turn over thischair the kitchen? It's not off the
table and every training, Uh,don't allow yourself as spoken, there is
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no fire. The smoke was allarranged for her. Arranged. What does
it means? Means that I wanteda package of letters as fopped her that
by following your eyes just now whenyou thought there was a fire, I
discovered that you would hidden them inthe upostery of this chair. M h
yes, quiet elementary, as you'veseen. And now that they're in my
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possession, there seems to be noreason for need to remain any longer in
this house. Good night, spokener, Miss Fagner. Yes, I I
can't take them a swamper does thathas belong to you? I find that
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I cannot keep them unless you,who can possibly change your mind and let
me have them of your own freewill. I disuppose you could. I
will therefore return to you. Andoh it's our friends to larby're returning from
the fire. Now I suppose we'regoing to see you walk up of a
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house. On the contrary, you'regoing to see the return into their rightful
owner, Spaugner. Here your letters. Should you ever change your mind and
be so generous so forgiving as towish to return these letters to the one
who wrote them, you have myaddress. Any event, rest assured there
will be no more curls in,no more persecution in his house. You
are perfectly safe with your property inhis Spaugner. Or I should so arrange
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it that your faintest cry of distresswill be heard. If that cry is
heard, it will be very unfortunatefor those who are responsible. As for
you, mister Larabie, and you, madame, I beg you to understand
that you continue your persecution of thatyoung lady at your held good night.
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Come here, this spoker. Nowyou're going to give me those Are you
going to give me those? Level? Then the spoker? Do you give
me those letters? Or do Ibreak your arm on the door It was
on that side. If you call, Madam, I think someone not chasin
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I'll see madam. I beg pardon, madam, but there's no one at
the door very where you wanna go. He's got us watched. What we
want to do is to leave usalone. Let the Emperor have it.
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Do you mean protestor marialtis? That'sall I mean. Once let's didn't get
at it. You'll settle it thehomes pretty quick. Don't you worry a
minute. I'll tell you, ProfessorMorials, you'll get at him before noon
tomorrow night. He won't wait longeither, and when he fights, it
means death. Remember eighty two,three seventy one, Everything sat and waited
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by an expert. Manning has disappeared, disappeared homes again, this letter bed
he's in on that too, andthat's where he's made his mistake. It's
the romes he is playing oither adangerous game. Magic Inspector Wilson tried it
seven years ago. Wilson did twoyears later Henderson took it up. You
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haven't heard anything of innders play.Ain't not a thing you'll see about that.
It's hose is right as a talentedman. He doesn't realize the origin
of squeeze in London. That'll besafe but him if I us that his
name to Kragen, he might evenmake him if he'll call myself just for
the SETI stay. Just let thesetting it Acer Street, isn't it's based
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Aker Street? Hey? Like us? He said he could make it safe.
He could make it absolute. They'ssafe for three streets in every direction.
Yes, and if he could,he's done it over and over again
elsewhere police decoy then in every doorwaythrough this tonight at Daker Street nine o'clock
called his attendants out on one pretexttowards another and keep him out. Understand,
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I will see this Sherlock Holmes myself. Uh will give a chance for
his life. That's a that's anotify Atlaskar that I may require the guest
team that step there tomorrow night andhave Kraig in there of a quarter before
ten with his coool U. Thelatter day, I shall want him to
write a letter to mister Sherlock Holmes, which I usual be take e.
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There are seven basic if your menat nine to night for Sherlock Holmes his
house in Baker Street. Yes,still go there yourself. I will still
go there myself this meeting tomorrow night. Say to get him in a gas
chamber. I fail to kill himin Bigger street, you will have him
mean swan the man. Either way, I have in bess It two strings
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to borrow those two strings a BASSIthat evening, Holmes and I dined together
at Scott's and Thicculary Circus. Afterdinner we went to a concert at Queen's
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Hall. I can still see himon this particular night of the Moriarty case
well, knowing that his life wasin peril, sitting beside me in the
stalls, wrapped in the most perfecthappiness, listening to Sara started playing the
violin, gently waving his long,thin fingers in times for music. When
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it was over, he rose,put on his long coat and started with
long steps in the direction of thestreet, Vega Street. I have an
idea that's very humors to be receivingthe most interesting visits. Probably Paul will
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hear them, Hansen. And aswe came down Vaker Street, we could
see that the light was burning onthe second floor of two twenty one d
We went up the dark, narrowstairs. The boy Billy was waiting for
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her Missus Hudson's compliments set and shewants to know if she can see you.
Where is missus Hudson downstairs in thekitchen? Set my compliments? Now
I don't think she can where sheis She'll be very sorry, sir.
I regret will be mutual. Itwas the most terrible important set venis.
She wants to know what let's forbreakfast in the morning, the same as
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Renter this morning, but you didn'thave nothing, so it wasn't here.
I won't be here tomorrow. Yesthat author, Yes, mister Olmes,
here's a letter for yourself on thetable, delivered ten minutes ago. Read
it once? That good, Yes, sir, that's addresses name by James
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Ladderbye and what is James? Thesame hearing Dear sir, I hope you
won't say that again. I havethe honor to inform you that Miss Faukner
has changed her mind regarding the lettersat Scepter which you wish to obtain,
and has decided to dispose of themfor a monetary consideration. If you wish
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to negotiate, will you'll be atnine o'clock at the Guard's Monument at the
pot of Waterloo Place. You willsee a foe feeder with wooden shutters to
the windows. If you have thecab followed, or try any other underhand
picked you both get what you want. Let me know your decisions yours through
the James blab mind tu well,Perhaps a fellow, mean fellow means to
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sell me a blase imitation for alot of money at certain letters he does
not possess. I shall probably buythem from him now if I have points
tonight and then the clark Guard's monumentcab with wooden shudder. No one has
come with me on the follow orI don't get what it wants like right
huh? But this cab with thewooden shut any little advice to keep me
from seeing where they're taking me?Bai, give this to the man.
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You look quite young, you're handsome. You seen the driver before. I
can't think where I hand this tothe lady. Apologize to the lay and
look at the driver again, mydear home. You didn't say you would
go, but I certainly didn't.This fellow me unless it come on from
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the chemistomach corner to say, butlooks like his leg broke and went doctor
Watson kinder step or what and helpto the ambulance who brought that message of
course, the which boy must havebeen a new one. Tip, I
ain't seen him before, killy,it comes up quickly, look out,
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the doctor. The boy has goneas a man with him. It means
mischief. Let me know. Don'tstop them up from the door bell on
here a cricket cloud? Who's heavy? Who's the finger? Loaded? Firearms
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in the pocket of one? Igive you my word, Professor Moriat.
You'll be taken from here to thehospital. If you keep your hand behind
you like that, that's better.Hmhm that case, please put your revava
on the table. You don't knowme. I think it's quite evident that
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I do. I have a chair, Professor. I can sell you five
minutes. That's careful you've got todo, Professor Mariat, I'll tell you
when you're five minutes. Is upyour intention to pursue this case against him?
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That is my intention to the end. I regret this from my own
count, but I share your regret, Professor. That's solely because of the
rather uncomfortable position that will go youto occupy. May I inquire to what
positions you are pleased to love?Mister Hone, I refer to the position
you will occupy at the end ofa rope? Professor and Rita, have
you the stings idea that you'd bepermitted to live to see that day?
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As to that, I do notparticularly care so that I bring you to
see it, you will never bringme to see it. Do you think
that I would be here if Ihadn't made the streets quite safe in every
respect? I could never so grosslyor that to make your courage is that
you imagine that your friend the doctorand your boy Day will soon return.
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But so it leaves us quite alone? Doesn't it so great? Alone?
Those that weep and talk met willre quietly not to be disturbed in the
first pace. I wish to callyour attention to if you've never ender which
he stuck a thousand, which youwill find that, yeah, they aren't.
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I'll do that. Cantome quick.The father wasn't that memorandum book you're
talking about, Well, merely don'tdo it. I don't want it,
got one of my own? Doyou want to let someone get it for
you? I always like to say, my guest's unnecessary trouble. You observed
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that boy doesn't answer no. ButI have an idea that he will may
possibly be longer than you think,mister, who what that boy? Yes,
that boy. At least we'll tryto build once more, Professor,
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doesn't it occur to you that hemay possibly be need the team? It
does, Professor, But it alsocursed me that you're very much the same
particularment, professor, boyarte someone.Yeah, it's quite evident, however,
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that he failed to do so.He's got my coat, but he ain't
got me, billet, a gentleman, I am carefully pointing out to you
with this forty five desires to haveus gathered something of his left hand inside
coat pocket. He's not feeling quitehimself today, and the consequence of his
trying to do it himself might provefatal. I suggest you attend to it
for him. Yes, sir,it is, sir. This gune got
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so so I'll put it on thetable. I'm not there, Billy.
On this table, I can reachit. I like it. That's old
Billy. I believe surprised me asthe gentleman's taking the trouble to informant.
He hasn't when he made a snatchfor this one. And now, Professor,
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now that we have your little memorandumbook, you think of anything else
you'd like before Billy goes any littlething you've got that you don't want.
So sion's all. Thank you,sirs, to Meg. On the fourth
of January you crossed my path.On the twenty third, you incommoded me.
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Now at the close of April,I find myself peaced in such a
position through your continual interference, thatI'm in positive danger of losing my liberty.
Mm Any suggestions to make no way, have no suggestions to meet.
They have effect the street. Ifyou don't prop it at once, your
life's not worth I'm a friend,professor, in the pleasure of this conversation,
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I'm neglecting my important business. Ifyou will excuse me a moment while
I get my hiples from that Theycleaned her this evening, mister Holmes,
to see if peace could not bearranged between so you'd seen fit not only
to reject my proposals, but tomeet insulting references capled with threats of arrest.
You've been born of your danger.You don't heed that morning to help
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you heed this mm hmm didn't matter, And I leave that gun loaded.
Did you press in my art head? Here you are contridges. I didn't
suppose you'd want to use that gunagain, so I looked them up.
Party were talking. Put in mypocket. You'll find them all there,
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professor billed. Yes, sir,you sure, Professor my art at the
door. Yes, sir, itwasted, he didn't you No, no,
I never will delay come in,Yes, sir, Dela delay are
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a good one, Yes, sir, Thank you. Sir. You are
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listening. You are listening to theColumbia Broadcasting System presentation of Austin Wells and
The Mercury Theater on the Air inChula Tome, with Austin Wells in the
title role and Ray Columns as doctorWatson. We pause a moment for station
and edification. Then sence the ColumbiaBroadcasting System. We continue now with the
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CBS presentation of Sherlock Holmes played byAustin Wells and The Mercury Theater on the
Air. Mhm. It was exactlynine o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left the house
in Baker Street. He had giventhe strictest instructions that no one was to
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follow him. If there had beenno word from him by a June of
the following day, he must notifyScotland Yards. I went to the window
and looked down as he went downBaker Street, a tall, thin figure
in a gray ulster, walking withlong smooth steps in the direction of Langham
Place. There he entered a cab. Year would he do in like matches?
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And that's what I'm doing? Chuck, chuck. It might be gas,
you fool, No gas. It'simportant day since we had gas in
the room, and I still saythere might be gas? Did you take
it? He goes ready, givehim five minutes of that. All your
troubles are ready, basic, right? Did you hear it here? Can't
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your boys? You got to wait, he said, who's that word?
Comes? You mean that truth?It's going to count him out where let's
get downs and he gets away.I'm sorry for you. That's all the
government professor myls shut up, Yes, sir, got your food group,
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sir, the mistakes tonight, Reagan. I'll be careful of that, sir.
This is the he's in on thisjob. Hello, but all basic
small cabin say then whatever nail answerand might break the glass if if he
didn't, you come up against everyiron bar outside. We'll let him tie
down before he can break in thegloves before right, of course, you
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know it's every crevice yourself. Whenthe men have turned the guest on him,
they leave by this door. Yes, sir, they made quite secure
the peoples on the outside, sir, solid bars overall. Did you see
how quick you cannot break them?The tire man downswer, there's no need
to hurt you. See how muchyou can not break them? That's good,
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admit up, Okay, I didn'tthe rest of you. One thing
remembers whatever happens through shooting the nighton a single shot and be heard in
the alley below. First thinglish toget his revolver away before he has a
chance to use it. Two ofeuro breaks his attention in front. They
come up from him from behind andsnack it out of his pockets. Then
you have him rings that quigan.I'll attend to it. It's a letter,
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you understand, the weak for youand Spencer. They give you this
opportunity to sell him, to takeit of letters you forged and get what
you can. A few hundred polandsdoesn't interest names there of it? What
I am? Uh? There is? Oh? I understand you finished and
got some money. You whistle andthese gentle and there it got that Quagan
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that's right, and Fregan the propermoment, present a compliments mister Sherlock Holmes,
and say that I which in thepleasant journey to the others own desic,
goody, A right, good nay. Let all right by yer.
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When you get a whipple in yourcom right you are hear it? Yes,
you get down on the ponic below. Let me know when he comes.
I want to let you know.You see him driving up, come
down the alley and all three timesit's true? How did you get the
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best place? I follow you?What have you been doing any since I
came up here and the police?I was the great until I waited for
one the warning. Yes, you'regoing to swindle in the seasons? Tell
him a type of port letters.I know them? What else are you
going to do to you? Wouldn'tyou like to know those men up here?
What men seet? Terrible looking man? I stim going into the street.
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Sho you don't mean these men,do you miss? P mhm?
There he is now homes. Youdon't have time to get her out in
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there? It was the cover.It's nice, good evening at the home.
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Ah, that's it. Already,and I certainly thought I throw this
driving down the closed cab. Youto me something new before? Have you
in the home? What a timeor two? How that comes? Think
of it? I abed a friendof yours in this place while he was
trying to drop himself out of thewindow. Head calm and the cracks well,
you certainly never heard of him aftersure event races Conifer has used these
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luxurious chambers and it springs eighty nineone of them hidden that cupboard. They
put him out of the heel.Quite interesting. But times have changed since
then, so they have, misterLarrab, So they have. But then
it was only cracks on and countedas pickpockets and patty swinders, verous kind.
But now well, now well betweenyou and me, mister Laerby,
we've heard some not altogether agreeable rumors. There was some prettish, shady work.
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I've far from him, murder twovery peculiar kinds. I've always had
a suspicion that's it. I surmisewas correct. It is. This room
is court sealed. What was thatthing? A fight of off? Nothing
to us, mister Laraby, nothingto us, but it might signify a
good deal to some poor devil whohas been caught and gassed in this trap.
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Well for for nothing to us.Suppose we leave it alone and get
the business. My time is limiting. Of course, I should have realized
that these reflections could not possibly appealto you. Well, have is the
garments? Arms? Ah, thanks, good cigar, This, mister larabith
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genuine harna you like it? Nahere it is the little packet of letters
which is the object of this meeting. I haven't opened it yet, but
misper tells me everything is there.I suppose, mister Larder, that Miss
s Paughtner knows nothing about this affair. We have let her name from the
discussion. What do you mean whotold you? If she doesn't know,
you did every look, tone,gesture, everything you've said and done since
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I've been in this room is informedthat Miss Patkner has never consented to this
transaction. It is a little speculationof your own. Oh, I suppose
you think you can read me likea bone. No, no, like
a trimmer. Well let it pass. How much will you give? One
thousand pounds? I couldn't take it. What do you ask five thousand?
I couldn't give it? Well,I could up a four thousand, but
didn't you take it because I intendedto get more. Oh that's too bad.
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They offered four thousands, they'll givefive. They won't give anything.
Why not? They've turned the caseover to me. Will you give three
pounds to laradis strange as it mayappear, My time is limited as well
as yours. I have brought withme the sum of one thousand pounds,
which is all that I wish topay if it's your desire to sell it
this figure, because this appraised methe fact at once. If not that
we wish you are very good easing, well we can have it to stall
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a matter to hangle over. Giveme the money. I thought you said
you'd only brought just a thousand.I did this? Is it? You
brought a flight for more? Quiteso? I didn't say I hadn't brought
it anymore. You can do yourlittle six when it comes to it,
can't you. It depends on whoI'm dealing with. You give me that
money on over. I've got you. I want you, James Learabee.
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You'd be so cunning and so cautiousand so wise. We couldn't find a
thing to hold you for but thislittle swift will get you in for robbery.
What are your fused about being ableto get away from Yeah? Your
sun. I do not anticipate anyparticular difficulty robbery. Eh. Why even
if you've got away from here,you haven't got a witness, you haven't
fought a witness for your name.I'm not so sure of that, mister
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Leabe. I'm so sure of that. You use this fastness covered dough the
nice par come back. What thismean? I'll tell you what it means.
I'm afraid I'll h have to askyou, gentlemen, to wait,
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just just one moment, please hearthere. What's the idea of sitting down
riding? What are you writing yourwill? No? No, the brief
description of one or two of yourgentlemen? Please ready, enough, wait
a bit. You better listen tobaby's all. We're gonna tie you down,
knife and tights at the top ofthat table. Why you subscribe me?
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Gentlemen? Thinking you're s sure ofanybody in this room and three bars
gone out of that windows, you'renot going to get off. You're the
easier doing. There are so manyways. It's a little bit that I
hardly know which one to choose,and you better choose quick. I can
tell you that I choose at once, mister Craggan, and my choice falls
on this chair the window stop hefind up, look at as he does,
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by the way down. No,gentlemen, no, not by the
window. I'm leaving by the door, by the way. I left my
cigar fore on the window sill.Good eavening, gentlemen. There was no
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news of homes that night, anddid he reported next morning that he had
not breakfasted at home. I hada busy morning at my office in Harley
Street. It was after eleven beforethe last of my appointments was over,
and still no news of homes.You ring, doctor old Possums. Is
there anyone waiting? I have tobe in Daker Street at noon. There's
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one person in the waiting room,doctor, A lady said, and she
wants to see your most particular aboutShe didn't say soon. She said it
was the most important to her.If you won't see her very well,
as here and call a cab forme at the same time and have it
wait so the lady yes, sir, this way, Oh doctor, it's
awfully good as you to see me. I'm mis engaged to wit Stephen differently.
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I didn't bring my card case,but if I did, I've lost
it. Don't trouble about a card. They said you were mister Holmes his
friend. Several people told me that. The several they advised me to ask
you where I could find him todaythis morning? And everything depends on his
doctor. Everything I be. Hewasn't there house, Yes, in Data
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Street. That's why I came toyou. They said he might be here.
No, here, but don't youexpect him this morning? No,
there's no possibility in mister Holmes comingas far as I know. But couldn't
you get him to come? Itwould be such a great favor to me.
I'm almost worn out with going abouthim with a dreadful anxiety. If
you could get work and mister Holm, I could not get him to come
down him and I beg you toexcuse me. I'm going out myself of
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certain business. I have no ideawhen miter Holmes, that's probably nothing more
than a broken down happen. That'swhat it is. But that's the bell
says somebody. You don't allow anybodyto come in. I have no more
time. That honey is right awayton't the doctor just can't see anybody came
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straight? All right? Help himin like? Can I hear from you?
Oh? Leg this way, hesaid, the bee cancel of the
soup. That's the accident. Wellyou, Curt, that's enough. He
was on the wrong side of thestreet. He was over to the corner.
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I sit here. Don't you supposeI know where I want to sit
down and you'll sit down here?That is the doctor. The doctor will
ever look at you. He isthe doctor. That is the doctor.
He's a doctor. He aducted.I guess coming never look at his old
head hisself a little. Are youa Cameron? Yes, I'm the cabman.
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Well have you erected for this?Arrested? Arrested, arrested on arrest?
No, no, I can't putsomebody else can Where's my hat?
Where's my hat? My hat?My hat? Am mind your head.
I will mind my hat. Ihold you responsible. You're right in your
end. Go on, sit Thatisn't my hat. Yeah, you're responsible.
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I have you're wrested here, comeback, stick around you. You
know I got bring your heart inhere. I want to stick to him.
Let's say I won't stay in thisspace I ever get out of your
alive? What are you standing at? People? It is? Tell that
captain wait for me. I'm notto see this bad my fraid it will
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sit quiet for one moment. I'llhave a look at him. Well,
stay still, How can I remarkableremarkable weather? We're having a doctor ho
What on earth can about having youremoved from this ridiculous disguise? Wasn't home?
Is that when we get out ofthe window to do nothing already been
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done by missus larrabie here? Idon't think so, Watson, for good
workman, take a stay in chargea good woman? Wait from outside?
What's in my differ? I regretto say that that's the present time.
Professor Myaty himself has not risen tothe base. Where do you think he
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is in the open streets under someclever disguise, watching for a chance to
get a hi, to let themknow by some signal if she found me
in the house. Now they know. Pull down that blank Watson. I
don't care to be shot at fromthe street. Imagine we shall hear from
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the person walty very soon. Now? What did I tell you? He
come, sir? From where healso across the street. He was in
there and watching these windows. Hemust have seen something, for he just
come out. There was a cabweods in front of this house, sir,
and he's climbed up and changed placeswith a driver again quickly and keep
your eye on him. Thank you, Watson, you didn't have a rather
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heavy apartmenteau for a few moments.I won't do it anyhow. I'm part
of my large dad's still over bitin the corner. Thank you, Parsons.
Put it down there, Thank youso much. Parsons. You wanted
to cap the doctor a short timeago. It's been waiting. I believe
you think it be so good asto tell the driver to come in here
and get a release. He comes, tell him that's the one. Very
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good, right, dear Watson.Sounds like these. You should tell you
a man never to take the firstcab that comes on call, or yet
the second. The third may besafe. But hold that this bag I'm
not taking down, all right?Goodbye, Watson, by fellow. Wait
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a minute, driver pretty heavy,our friend, and they help you,
Watson, I'll write you from thepest driver. The scrapped it. Well,
that's right, I hold it eitheryou you pulled the strap. Two
little things in this bag that Iwouldn't like to lose. And it's just
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as well to make quite sure,is it not? Professor up there by
means of a simple pair of handcuffsis the end I ventured to dream that
it might be. You're quite surethe police will be able to hold me,
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Professor Moriarty. I'm quite sure ofnothing. Take him away from him.
And so my dear Watson ends thestrange case of Miss Alice Faulkner.
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All the letters they will return totheir rat Clona over and I'll go.
I suspected from the start that MissFaukner was really a nice girls. Huh
Yeah, I was just reflecting theidea Watson. With Moriarty out of the
way, London, from the pointof view of the criminal expert, it's
likely to become a singularly uninteresting city. One morning paper veritable willedness of boredom.
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Noah says she's got a murder.She says she's from which I deduced
that she is a lady of overforty one and less than forty five,
of the strange, dark beauty andconsiderable social eminence that she has lived for
some years in the Near East thatshe's now wearing a large blood ruby on
the second thing as a left handsHolmes, how do you know these things?
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It's amazing elementary and idea Watson elementary, the child's play of Deduction again
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to night the Columbia Broadcasting System whois affiliated station Coast to Coast, I've
brought you awesome Bowes and the MercuryTheater on the air see Prout production in
this unique series featuring broadways and radiois now celebrated theatrical producing company this evening
the play was awesome well his ownadaptation of William Gillette Sherlock Holmes in the
cast. Doctor Watson played by RayCollins, Alice Paukner by Mary Taylor,
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lads Larabye by Benda Forbes, JamesLarrabie by Edgar Darrier, Respected Foreman by
Morgan Farley, Fagan by Richard Wilson, Blassic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by
William Allen, Jilly by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Yusuf Wyatt, and
Sherlock Holmes by Orson Wales. Theorchestra was conducted by Bernard Hermann and the
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production of supervised for CBS by DavidsonTaylor. The announcer is Frank Gallop.
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Next Sunday Evening. At the sametime, another classic narrative dramatized by Orson
Welles Join of Them for Charles Dickens'sOliver Quist doctornized by the Mercury Theater on the air
The Mercury Theater on the Air.A Columbia Broadcasting System takes pleasure in bringing
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you the Twelt in its series ofweekly broadcasts featuring Austin Welles and the Mercury
Theater on the Air. To night, Broadways and Radio's most celebrated theater for
producing Campanet brings to life the bestloved character in detective fiction, the immortal
Sherlock Holmes. The play is AustenWelles's own adaptation for radio William Jennetson during
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Melodrama, based on the famous storiesby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Before the
performance begins, here is the directorof the Mercury Theater, the star and
producer of these unique broadcasts, OrsonWelles. Evening Well Tonight, it's back
to Baker Street, back to thatunlikely London of the nineteenth century, where
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high adventure waits allow would seek itin a handsome cab or under a gas
lamp in an invenous cape. Butto night we pay tribute to the most
wonderful member of that most wonderful world, a gentleman who never lived and who
will never die. There are onlya few of them, these permanent profiles
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everlasting silhouettes on the edge of theworld. There is first the little hunchback
with a slapstick, whose hooked noseis shaped like his cap. There is
now and always will be the penguinfooted hobo in the derby, and the
baggy pants, and the small boywith a wooden head, and the long,
rusty knight on horseback, and thefat knight who could only procure a
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charge on foot. There is alsothe tall gentleman with a hawk's face,
and the underflung pipe, the foreignaft cap. We'd know them anywhere and
call them easily by name. Punchand the Charles Chaplain and MacCarthy Keelty,
Sir John and Sherlock Holmes. Nowirrelevant as this may seem, we of
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the Mercury Theater very much occupied thesedays with rehearsals for a revival of a
fine old American fut a lot ofyou will remember, if only for its
lovely title, which is too muchJohnson. Its author was William Gillette,
which reminded us as it reminds youof Sherlock Holmes. As everybody knows that
celebrated American inventor of under acting lenthis considerable gifts as a playwright to the
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indestructible legend of the Conan Doyle Detectiveand produced the play, which is as
much a part of the Holmes literatureas any of Sir Arthur's own romances,
and as nobody will ever forget,he gave his face to him for William
Gillette, with the aquiline and actualembodiment of Holmes himself. It's too little
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to say that William Gillette resembled SherlockColmbe's Surlock Holmbs looked exactly like William Gillette,
sounds like him too, were afraidand hoped devoutly that the Mercury theater
and the radio will take none ofthe glamor from the beloved fable of Baker
Street, from the pipe and theviolin, and the hideous purple dressing gown,
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from the needle and the cigar onthe window, ledge, and the
dry final famous lines alimentary and IdaWatson elimentary the mere Child's play of Deduction.
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My name is Watson. I ama doctor. It was near eighteen
eighty that Holmes and I were introducedby our mutual acquaintance. At the time,
we were both looking for a lodgingthat would suit our moderate means.
This we found on the second floorof a house at two thirty one B
Baker Street, and it was duringthe years that we occupied these chambers together
that Holmes established his unique international reputationas a consulting detective. During that time
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I was privileged to be his dailycompanions, and I have done my modest
care in giving to the world andaccount of some of his most famous cases.
Most famous of these are the onesof which I have written under the
names of the Second band SnO forHound of the Baskervilles and the Studying Scholar.
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They represent, however, only aminute fraction of the six hundred and
forty three cases Holmes successfully solved duringthe years that we shared the lodgings in
Baker Streets. Other cases I hopeone day to give to the world include
the Tarlatan Murders, the sudden deathof Cardinal Post, the adventure of Ricolette
of the thlub Foot and his AbominableWife, the case of Missus Ferrantogh,
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the Circuit Bell, and the caseof the Royal Family of Scandinavia, each
illustrated in their own way the remarkablegenius of my friend Sherlock Holmes. Since
my marriage three years ago, Holmeshas continued to occupy the Baker Street lodgings
by himself, and here almost everyafternoon when my work in the office is
finished, I am in the habitof calling on him. The sitting room
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as you go in is exactly asit has been for the past thirteen years.
The worn bearskin rug, the hugesofa covered with faded chints, the
mantle piece cluttered with miscellaneous objects,unanswered letters, and piles of loose tobacco
on one side of the fireplace,and a deep arm chair, his pipe
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curling forth slow wreaths of acrid tobacco. Draped in his hideous purple dressing gown,
said Sherlock Holmes, with his violinunder his chin, an, what's
my default? Are you home?I'm glad to see you, very good.
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Lighted upon my word, I am, but and sizes that your wife
has left up. She has goneon. There's a visit. But how
do you know? Not? DidI when I like that? How do
I know anything? How do Iknow? You've been getting yourself very wet
lately, that you an extremely carelessservant girl, and you moved your dressing
table, the outside of the roomholes. If you had lived a few
centuries ago, that had burned youalive. But your congregation would have saved
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me a great deal of trouble andextended on me. Now, how did
you know all that? Too simpleto talk about? Scratches and clumsy cuts?
My dear fell on the other sideof your shoe there as where the
firelight strikes it scratches cuts and justscraped the way crusted munts? Is it
badly, badly scraped the shoe alongwith it as your wet foot, My
dear Watson, you're careless, servengirl. Are on one shoe face blandly
shaved the right side always used tobe on the left. Light must on
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the other side. Couldn't very wellmove your window, must move theressing table,
of course, But how the deucedid you know? Why wife was
away? Where the juice is?Your second westcoat button? Was? What
the juce is yesterday's button here doingin today's the pell and why the deuced
you were the expression of a parlimentaryidea of elementary the child's player of production.
I'm only doing it for your amusementbefore we pass on to more serious
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matters once, my dear fellow,the enthusiasm which is prompted you to chronicle,
and if you would excuse my sayingso somewhat to embellish my little adventures,
the occasionally seemed fit to introduce acertain element of romance which struck me
as being a just a trifle outof place, something like working in elopement
into the fifth proposition of euclid.I merely refer to this in case you
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should see fits at some future time, to chronicle the case on which I'm
about to embark, the strange caseof Professor Robert Moriati. Morit I don't
remember ever having heard of the fellow. No whats and you haven't if I
see this quality of invisibility that makesof Professor Moriarty the Napoleon of crime,
sitting motionless like an ugly, venomousspider in the center of his web,
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but that web having a thousand radiations, and the spider knowing every quiver of
every one of them. And withinforty eight hours I'll have the lines drawn
so tightly around him that he can'tmove, and arrest him his entire gang.
This is a very dangerous, mydear Feld's perfectly delightful. My whole
life is spent in a series offrantic endeavors to escape from the dreary commonplaces
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of existence for a brief period.I escape, You congratulate me. The
day before yesterday I received in thisroom the visit of a certain foreign and
nobleman, was recently inherited a veryconsiderable title, and who was about to
be married. Seems that this titlegentleman so indiscreet as to fall in love
with a young English lady with thename of Faulkner, socially his inferior,
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and to make her a promise ofmarriage. Later, his family's insistence,
things broken off, and the younglady died shortly after a broken heart,
leaving behind his sister. Also considerableevidence in the storm of letters, photographs
and jewelry with inscriptions. These thesister kept. These, together with the
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sister, are now being held ina house in Saint John's Wood by a
pair of blackmailers who go to thename of Chetwood. So far as you
see, my dear, what sima fairly ordinary case of blackmail? Howd
it was my attention last night onmy inspection a certain element revealed itself,
which renders the case far more importantthan I had expected. And that element
was Professor Moriarte. And then thename of foreman, Yes, gleaning for
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him, leading a watching this inspectedforeman. The day before yesterday he occupies
the position of butler under the nameof Judson in the home of mister and
missus Check would black neighbors from John'sWood the foreman any news, Yes,
sir, this morning a little laughternine the Chetwood and his wife rode away
in a four wheeler. He returnedabout eleven. Basick was with them.
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You know him though years when Ilast turned the occasion to meet mister Pessick,
Hugh got two years for safe crekingand go on for him. Well,
they took this man bast into thelibrary. I gotta look at him
from the outside, and there hewas opening up the safe where they'd been
keeping a letter. Go on inthe end. When they got the safe
open, it was empty. Theletter's begone. That seems like the Forlkner
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girl got them back somehow. Igot them pretty excited. Dastick went out
to send a telegram. Yes,yes, he is, sir, Complode.
Mmm, myriaty I thought so Watson, this case is taking a most
promising turn. Foreman, He returnedonce to the house that sain John's Wood.
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Then ten minutes actually there myself.If I remember correctly, the kitchens
immediately below the drawing room. HM. Yes, when I knock over a
chair in the drawing room, youwill overturn a lamp in the kitchen,
scattered smoke balls and give an alarmof fire. All other instructions remain unchanged.
That he good for hi, Foreman, Well, my dear Watson begins
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to look like a most interesting evening. Hi, good evening. My name
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is Sherlock Holmes Holmes, thank youso much, mister Chadwood. I had
myself announced by the butler and myway up LA I didn't very well or
here he is have some begged misterHolmes to excuse her. She is not
well enough to see anyone this evening. Will you please hand this card miss
Fopper and say that I take yourpardon, mister Holmes. But it's quite
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useless. Really, Oh, I'mso sorry to hear it. Yes,
miss Portner, is I regret tosay, quite an inflation. She is
unable to see anyone. Her healthis so poor. Has it ever occurred
to you, mister Chedwood, thatshe might be confined to the house too
much? How does that concern you? It doesn't simply to make the suggestion.
I'd like to think it over abouthis name, Judson. Very well,
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Judson, go on, take mycard up? Very good, This
is really too good. Of coursehe can take up your card or your
note or whatever it is, ifyou wish it so much. I was
only trying to save you the trouble, thanks, any trouble at all.
Send if can you know, misterHolmes, you interest me very much on
my word. Yes, we've allheard of your wonderful methods as punishing manner
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in which you gain information from themost tifling details. Now I dare say,
in this brief moment or two,you've discovered any number of things about
me. Nothing CON's quence, messChadwyn. I hadly more than ask myself
why he was so distressed to seeme at this particular moment, and what
there can possibly be about the saintin the lower part of that desk to
cause you such painful anxiety. Verygood, very good. Indeed, if
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those things were only true now,I'd be wonderfully impressed. It would be
absolutely any Sir Judson, A messagefor you, mister Chetwell you'll excuse me.
I trust it's from miss Faulkner.Well, really she begs to be
allowed to see you, mister Holmes. She absolutely implores it. Well,
I suppose I shall have to giveway. Judson asked Miss Faukner to come
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down to the drawing room, saythat mister Holmes is waiting to see her.
Quite remarkable upon my soul. MayI ask, if it's not an
impertinent question, what message you sentup that could so have aroused Miss Paukner's
desire to come down. And thenthere is that she wasn't down here in
five minutes I'd go up. Ohthat was it? Yes, quite so,
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And unless I'm great mistaken, Ihear the young lady on the stairs,
which case she has a minute anda half to spare Alice, it
is miss Faulkner. Let me introducemister Sherlock Holmes. Mister Holme, Miss
Fauner. I'm really most charmed tomeet you, although I don't look as
if you'd made me come down inspite of myself, doesn't. I thank
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you very much, indeed for concerningto see me, Miss Faukner, that
regret to observe that you are putto the trouble of making such a very
rapid change of dress. I didthe hottest title. I can think.
Mister Holmes is quite living up tohis reputation, isn't he said? Come
in, yes, ma'am. Whatare you doing here? Doctor? I
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did man. I was answering thebell. What bell you're drawing on?
Bell? What do you mean youblock? Had no one rang the bell?
I'm quite sure it was round.Well, I tell you I did
not let your butler's right, misterChetwood, bell did ring? Or do
you know I rang it? Whatdo you want? I send my card
to the real miss Fuckner, Isaid, the real man Spotner. That's
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who years. Oh what why doyou bring the servants and your orders in
my house? What right have youto prevent my cards from reaching their destination?
How does this happen if you andthis woman are storting to trickery and
deceit to prevent me from seeing AlicePaupner for some tracking overside, Judson,
Neither of the cards I handed tohim has been delivered. Hand me see
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that this error does not occur againmy orders. You have orders. I
can't say you were told not todeliver my card. What business is it
of yours? I'd like to know. I shall satisfy your curiosity on that
point. It is very short time, mister Chetwood. Yes, and you'll
find out in a very short timethat it doesn't safe to meddle with me.
It wouldn't be any trouble at allfor me to throw you out into
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the street. And I possibly enoughthat trouble would swiftly follows such an experiment
on your past that has a luckything for you. I'm not army.
Yes, well, miss Pagner comesdown, you go and arm yourself myself.
I'll call the police. Oh no, you will not do it now.
You will remain where you are.And lady I came here to see
us enter this room because you wouldprefer to avoid an investigation of your suspicious
conduct. Mister James Larabeth, thatis the name under which you were known
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to Scotland Yard. I believe,mister Chetwood, the stady here is your
wife, Steal Johnson. You willeither deliver that card, Miss Falkner at
once or sleep in the police stationtonight. That a more consequence to me,
who should do? Shall I goor take up a card? It
makes no difference to me. Ashort time since verabill, you displayed an
acute anxiety to leave the room.Pray do not let me detain you or
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your wife any longer. Take youto prefer to remain. And I talked
to miss Faulkner. We do atthe home, Yes, mister home,
Yes you wish to see that verymuch. Indeed, Miss Faukner, that
I'm sorry to see that you arefar from will no beg your pardon?
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What does this mark mean? Oh? Nothing? And the mark here on
your neck plain issuing the clutch ofthe man's fingers. Does that mean nothing?
Also, because neither that. Ishould like to have an explanation of
this. Possibly you can furnish one, mister let It seems to have occurred
in your own house. You've gotto understand that it doesn't help me for
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you or anyone else to interfere withmy business. It is your business.
Here's that much. At least,pray be seated, Mis Forkner. I
don't know who you are, misterHolmes, or why you were here.
I shall be very glad. Indeed, to explain my business is this I
have been consulted. It's the possibilityof obtaining from you certain letters addressed to
your sister, which is supposed tobe in your position. I cannot give
up my sister there but my dearnalssquer Oh, I'm so sorry. How
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comes with me to turn over thischair the kitchen? It's not off the
table and every training, Uh,don't allow yourself as spoken, there is
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no fire. The smoke was allarranged for her. Arranged. What does
it means? Means that I wanteda package of letters as fopped her that
by following your eyes just now whenyou thought there was a fire, I
discovered that you would hidden them inthe upostery of this chair. M h
yes, quiet elementary, as you'veseen. And now that they're in my
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possession, there seems to be noreason for need to remain any longer in
this house. Good night, spokener, Miss Fagner. Yes, I I
can't take them a swamper does thathas belong to you? I find that
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I cannot keep them unless you,who can possibly change your mind and let
me have them of your own freewill. I disuppose you could. I
will therefore return to you. Andoh it's our friends to larby're returning from
the fire. Now I suppose we'regoing to see you walk up of a
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house. On the contrary, you'regoing to see the return into their rightful
owner, Spaugner. Here your letters. Should you ever change your mind and
be so generous so forgiving as towish to return these letters to the one
who wrote them, you have myaddress. Any event, rest assured there
will be no more curls in,no more persecution in his house. You
are perfectly safe with your property inhis Spaugner. Or I should so arrange
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it that your faintest cry of distresswill be heard. If that cry is
heard, it will be very unfortunatefor those who are responsible. As for
you, mister Larabie, and you, madame, I beg you to understand
that you continue your persecution of thatyoung lady at your held good night.
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Come here, this spoker. Nowyou're going to give me those Are you
going to give me those? Level? Then the spoker? Do you give
me those letters? Or do Ibreak your arm on the door It was
on that side. If you call, Madam, I think someone not chasin
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I'll see madam. I beg pardon, madam, but there's no one at
the door very where you wanna go. He's got us watched. What we
want to do is to leave usalone. Let the Emperor have it.
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Do you mean protestor marialtis? That'sall I mean. Once let's didn't get
at it. You'll settle it thehomes pretty quick. Don't you worry a
minute. I'll tell you, ProfessorMorials, you'll get at him before noon
tomorrow night. He won't wait longeither, and when he fights, it
means death. Remember eighty two,three seventy one, Everything sat and waited
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by an expert. Manning has disappeared, disappeared homes again, this letter bed
he's in on that too, andthat's where he's made his mistake. It's
the romes he is playing oither adangerous game. Magic Inspector Wilson tried it
seven years ago. Wilson did twoyears later Henderson took it up. You
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haven't heard anything of innders play.Ain't not a thing you'll see about that.
It's hose is right as a talentedman. He doesn't realize the origin
of squeeze in London. That'll besafe but him if I us that his
name to Kragen, he might evenmake him if he'll call myself just for
the SETI stay. Just let thesetting it Acer Street, isn't it's based
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Aker Street? Hey? Like us? He said he could make it safe.
He could make it absolute. They'ssafe for three streets in every direction.
Yes, and if he could,he's done it over and over again
elsewhere police decoy then in every doorwaythrough this tonight at Daker Street nine o'clock
called his attendants out on one pretexttowards another and keep him out. Understand,
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I will see this Sherlock Holmes myself. Uh will give a chance for
his life. That's a that's anotify Atlaskar that I may require the guest
team that step there tomorrow night andhave Kraig in there of a quarter before
ten with his coool U. Thelatter day, I shall want him to
write a letter to mister Sherlock Holmes, which I usual be take e.
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There are seven basic if your menat nine to night for Sherlock Holmes his
house in Baker Street. Yes,still go there yourself. I will still
go there myself this meeting tomorrow night. Say to get him in a gas
chamber. I fail to kill himin Bigger street, you will have him
mean swan the man. Either way, I have in bess It two strings
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to borrow those two strings a BASSIthat evening, Holmes and I dined together
at Scott's and Thicculary Circus. Afterdinner we went to a concert at Queen's
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Hall. I can still see himon this particular night of the Moriarty case
well, knowing that his life wasin peril, sitting beside me in the
stalls, wrapped in the most perfecthappiness, listening to Sara started playing the
violin, gently waving his long,thin fingers in times for music. When
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it was over, he rose,put on his long coat and started with
long steps in the direction of thestreet, Vega Street. I have an
idea that's very humors to be receivingthe most interesting visits. Probably Paul will
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hear them, Hansen. And aswe came down Vaker Street, we could
see that the light was burning onthe second floor of two twenty one d
We went up the dark, narrowstairs. The boy Billy was waiting for
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her Missus Hudson's compliments set and shewants to know if she can see you.
Where is missus Hudson downstairs in thekitchen? Set my compliments? Now
I don't think she can where sheis She'll be very sorry, sir.
I regret will be mutual. Itwas the most terrible important set venis.
She wants to know what let's forbreakfast in the morning, the same as
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Renter this morning, but you didn'thave nothing, so it wasn't here.
I won't be here tomorrow. Yesthat author, Yes, mister Olmes,
here's a letter for yourself on thetable, delivered ten minutes ago. Read
it once? That good, Yes, sir, that's addresses name by James
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Ladderbye and what is James? Thesame hearing Dear sir, I hope you
won't say that again. I havethe honor to inform you that Miss Faukner
has changed her mind regarding the lettersat Scepter which you wish to obtain,
and has decided to dispose of themfor a monetary consideration. If you wish
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to negotiate, will you'll be atnine o'clock at the Guard's Monument at the
pot of Waterloo Place. You willsee a foe feeder with wooden shutters to
the windows. If you have thecab followed, or try any other underhand
picked you both get what you want. Let me know your decisions yours through
the James blab mind tu well,Perhaps a fellow, mean fellow means to
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sell me a blase imitation for alot of money at certain letters he does
not possess. I shall probably buythem from him now if I have points
tonight and then the clark Guard's monumentcab with wooden shudder. No one has
come with me on the follow orI don't get what it wants like right
huh? But this cab with thewooden shut any little advice to keep me
from seeing where they're taking me?Bai, give this to the man.
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You look quite young, you're handsome. You seen the driver before. I
can't think where I hand this tothe lady. Apologize to the lay and
look at the driver again, mydear home. You didn't say you would
go, but I certainly didn't.This fellow me unless it come on from
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the chemistomach corner to say, butlooks like his leg broke and went doctor
Watson kinder step or what and helpto the ambulance who brought that message of
course, the which boy must havebeen a new one. Tip, I
ain't seen him before, killy,it comes up quickly, look out,
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the doctor. The boy has goneas a man with him. It means
mischief. Let me know. Don'tstop them up from the door bell on
here a cricket cloud? Who's heavy? Who's the finger? Loaded? Firearms
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in the pocket of one? Igive you my word, Professor Moriat.
You'll be taken from here to thehospital. If you keep your hand behind
you like that, that's better.Hmhm that case, please put your revava
on the table. You don't knowme. I think it's quite evident that
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I do. I have a chair, Professor. I can sell you five
minutes. That's careful you've got todo, Professor Mariat, I'll tell you
when you're five minutes. Is upyour intention to pursue this case against him?
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That is my intention to the end. I regret this from my own
count, but I share your regret, Professor. That's solely because of the
rather uncomfortable position that will go youto occupy. May I inquire to what
positions you are pleased to love?Mister Hone, I refer to the position
you will occupy at the end ofa rope? Professor and Rita, have
you the stings idea that you'd bepermitted to live to see that day?
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As to that, I do notparticularly care so that I bring you to
see it, you will never bringme to see it. Do you think
that I would be here if Ihadn't made the streets quite safe in every
respect? I could never so grosslyor that to make your courage is that
you imagine that your friend the doctorand your boy Day will soon return.
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But so it leaves us quite alone? Doesn't it so great? Alone?
Those that weep and talk met willre quietly not to be disturbed in the
first pace. I wish to callyour attention to if you've never ender which
he stuck a thousand, which youwill find that, yeah, they aren't.
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I'll do that. Cantome quick.The father wasn't that memorandum book you're
talking about, Well, merely don'tdo it. I don't want it,
got one of my own? Doyou want to let someone get it for
you? I always like to say, my guest's unnecessary trouble. You observed
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that boy doesn't answer no. ButI have an idea that he will may
possibly be longer than you think,mister, who what that boy? Yes,
that boy. At least we'll tryto build once more, Professor,
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doesn't it occur to you that hemay possibly be need the team? It
does, Professor, But it alsocursed me that you're very much the same
particularment, professor, boyarte someone.Yeah, it's quite evident, however,
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that he failed to do so.He's got my coat, but he ain't
got me, billet, a gentleman, I am carefully pointing out to you
with this forty five desires to haveus gathered something of his left hand inside
coat pocket. He's not feeling quitehimself today, and the consequence of his
trying to do it himself might provefatal. I suggest you attend to it
for him. Yes, sir,it is, sir. This gune got
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so so I'll put it on thetable. I'm not there, Billy.
On this table, I can reachit. I like it. That's old
Billy. I believe surprised me asthe gentleman's taking the trouble to informant.
He hasn't when he made a snatchfor this one. And now, Professor,
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now that we have your little memorandumbook, you think of anything else
you'd like before Billy goes any littlething you've got that you don't want.
So sion's all. Thank you,sirs, to Meg. On the fourth
of January you crossed my path.On the twenty third, you incommoded me.
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Now at the close of April,I find myself peaced in such a
position through your continual interference, thatI'm in positive danger of losing my liberty.
Mm Any suggestions to make no way, have no suggestions to meet.
They have effect the street. Ifyou don't prop it at once, your
life's not worth I'm a friend,professor, in the pleasure of this conversation,
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I'm neglecting my important business. Ifyou will excuse me a moment while
I get my hiples from that Theycleaned her this evening, mister Holmes,
to see if peace could not bearranged between so you'd seen fit not only
to reject my proposals, but tomeet insulting references capled with threats of arrest.
You've been born of your danger.You don't heed that morning to help
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you heed this mm hmm didn't matter, And I leave that gun loaded.
Did you press in my art head? Here you are contridges. I didn't
suppose you'd want to use that gunagain, so I looked them up.
Party were talking. Put in mypocket. You'll find them all there,
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professor billed. Yes, sir,you sure, Professor my art at the
door. Yes, sir, itwasted, he didn't you No, no,
I never will delay come in,Yes, sir, Dela delay are
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a good one, Yes, sir, Thank you. Sir. You are
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listening. You are listening to theColumbia Broadcasting System presentation of Austin Wells and
The Mercury Theater on the Air inChula Tome, with Austin Wells in the
title role and Ray Columns as doctorWatson. We pause a moment for station
and edification. Then sence the ColumbiaBroadcasting System. We continue now with the
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CBS presentation of Sherlock Holmes played byAustin Wells and The Mercury Theater on the
Air. Mhm. It was exactlynine o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left the house
in Baker Street. He had giventhe strictest instructions that no one was to
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follow him. If there had beenno word from him by a June of
the following day, he must notifyScotland Yards. I went to the window
and looked down as he went downBaker Street, a tall, thin figure
in a gray ulster, walking withlong smooth steps in the direction of Langham
Place. There he entered a cab. Year would he do in like matches?
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And that's what I'm doing? Chuck, chuck. It might be gas,
you fool, No gas. It'simportant day since we had gas in
the room, and I still saythere might be gas? Did you take
it? He goes ready, givehim five minutes of that. All your
troubles are ready, basic, right? Did you hear it here? Can't
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your boys? You got to wait, he said, who's that word?
Comes? You mean that truth?It's going to count him out where let's
get downs and he gets away.I'm sorry for you. That's all the
government professor myls shut up, Yes, sir, got your food group,
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sir, the mistakes tonight, Reagan. I'll be careful of that, sir.
This is the he's in on thisjob. Hello, but all basic
small cabin say then whatever nail answerand might break the glass if if he
didn't, you come up against everyiron bar outside. We'll let him tie
down before he can break in thegloves before right, of course, you
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know it's every crevice yourself. Whenthe men have turned the guest on him,
they leave by this door. Yes, sir, they made quite secure
the peoples on the outside, sir, solid bars overall. Did you see
how quick you cannot break them?The tire man downswer, there's no need
to hurt you. See how muchyou can not break them? That's good,
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admit up, Okay, I didn'tthe rest of you. One thing
remembers whatever happens through shooting the nighton a single shot and be heard in
the alley below. First thinglish toget his revolver away before he has a
chance to use it. Two ofeuro breaks his attention in front. They
come up from him from behind andsnack it out of his pockets. Then
you have him rings that quigan.I'll attend to it. It's a letter,
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you understand, the weak for youand Spencer. They give you this
opportunity to sell him, to takeit of letters you forged and get what
you can. A few hundred polandsdoesn't interest names there of it? What
I am? Uh? There is? Oh? I understand you finished and
got some money. You whistle andthese gentle and there it got that Quagan
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that's right, and Fregan the propermoment, present a compliments mister Sherlock Holmes,
and say that I which in thepleasant journey to the others own desic,
goody, A right, good nay. Let all right by yer.
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When you get a whipple in yourcom right you are hear it? Yes,
you get down on the ponic below. Let me know when he comes.
I want to let you know.You see him driving up, come
down the alley and all three timesit's true? How did you get the
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best place? I follow you?What have you been doing any since I
came up here and the police?I was the great until I waited for
one the warning. Yes, you'regoing to swindle in the seasons? Tell
him a type of port letters.I know them? What else are you
going to do to you? Wouldn'tyou like to know those men up here?
What men seet? Terrible looking man? I stim going into the street.
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Sho you don't mean these men,do you miss? P mhm?
There he is now homes. Youdon't have time to get her out in
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there? It was the cover.It's nice, good evening at the home.
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Ah, that's it. Already,and I certainly thought I throw this
driving down the closed cab. Youto me something new before? Have you
in the home? What a timeor two? How that comes? Think
of it? I abed a friendof yours in this place while he was
trying to drop himself out of thewindow. Head calm and the cracks well,
you certainly never heard of him aftersure event races Conifer has used these
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luxurious chambers and it springs eighty nineone of them hidden that cupboard. They
put him out of the heel.Quite interesting. But times have changed since
then, so they have, misterLarrab, So they have. But then
it was only cracks on and countedas pickpockets and patty swinders, verous kind.
But now well, now well betweenyou and me, mister Laerby,
we've heard some not altogether agreeable rumors. There was some prettish, shady work.
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I've far from him, murder twovery peculiar kinds. I've always had
a suspicion that's it. I surmisewas correct. It is. This room
is court sealed. What was thatthing? A fight of off? Nothing
to us, mister Laraby, nothingto us, but it might signify a
good deal to some poor devil whohas been caught and gassed in this trap.
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Well for for nothing to us.Suppose we leave it alone and get
the business. My time is limiting. Of course, I should have realized
that these reflections could not possibly appealto you. Well, have is the
garments? Arms? Ah, thanks, good cigar, This, mister larabith
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genuine harna you like it? Nahere it is the little packet of letters
which is the object of this meeting. I haven't opened it yet, but
misper tells me everything is there.I suppose, mister Larder, that Miss
s Paughtner knows nothing about this affair. We have let her name from the
discussion. What do you mean whotold you? If she doesn't know,
you did every look, tone,gesture, everything you've said and done since
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I've been in this room is informedthat Miss Patkner has never consented to this
transaction. It is a little speculationof your own. Oh, I suppose
you think you can read me likea bone. No, no, like
a trimmer. Well let it pass. How much will you give? One
thousand pounds? I couldn't take it. What do you ask five thousand?
I couldn't give it? Well,I could up a four thousand, but
didn't you take it because I intendedto get more. Oh that's too bad.
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They offered four thousands, they'll givefive. They won't give anything.
Why not? They've turned the caseover to me. Will you give three
pounds to laradis strange as it mayappear, My time is limited as well
as yours. I have brought withme the sum of one thousand pounds,
which is all that I wish topay if it's your desire to sell it
this figure, because this appraised methe fact at once. If not that
we wish you are very good easing, well we can have it to stall
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a matter to hangle over. Giveme the money. I thought you said
you'd only brought just a thousand.I did this? Is it? You
brought a flight for more? Quiteso? I didn't say I hadn't brought
it anymore. You can do yourlittle six when it comes to it,
can't you. It depends on whoI'm dealing with. You give me that
money on over. I've got you. I want you, James Learabee.
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You'd be so cunning and so cautiousand so wise. We couldn't find a
thing to hold you for but thislittle swift will get you in for robbery.
What are your fused about being ableto get away from Yeah? Your
sun. I do not anticipate anyparticular difficulty robbery. Eh. Why even
if you've got away from here,you haven't got a witness, you haven't
fought a witness for your name.I'm not so sure of that, mister
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Leabe. I'm so sure of that. You use this fastness covered dough the
nice par come back. What thismean? I'll tell you what it means.
I'm afraid I'll h have to askyou, gentlemen, to wait,
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just just one moment, please hearthere. What's the idea of sitting down
riding? What are you writing yourwill? No? No, the brief
description of one or two of yourgentlemen? Please ready, enough, wait
a bit. You better listen tobaby's all. We're gonna tie you down,
knife and tights at the top ofthat table. Why you subscribe me?
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Gentlemen? Thinking you're s sure ofanybody in this room and three bars
gone out of that windows, you'renot going to get off. You're the
easier doing. There are so manyways. It's a little bit that I
hardly know which one to choose,and you better choose quick. I can
tell you that I choose at once, mister Craggan, and my choice falls
on this chair the window stop hefind up, look at as he does,
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by the way down. No,gentlemen, no, not by the
window. I'm leaving by the door, by the way. I left my
cigar fore on the window sill.Good eavening, gentlemen. There was no
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news of homes that night, anddid he reported next morning that he had
not breakfasted at home. I hada busy morning at my office in Harley
Street. It was after eleven beforethe last of my appointments was over,
and still no news of homes.You ring, doctor old Possums. Is
there anyone waiting? I have tobe in Daker Street at noon. There's
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one person in the waiting room,doctor, A lady said, and she
wants to see your most particular aboutShe didn't say soon. She said it
was the most important to her.If you won't see her very well,
as here and call a cab forme at the same time and have it
wait so the lady yes, sir, this way, Oh doctor, it's
awfully good as you to see me. I'm mis engaged to wit Stephen differently.
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I didn't bring my card case,but if I did, I've lost
it. Don't trouble about a card. They said you were mister Holmes his
friend. Several people told me that. The several they advised me to ask
you where I could find him todaythis morning? And everything depends on his
doctor. Everything I be. Hewasn't there house, Yes, in Data
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Street. That's why I came toyou. They said he might be here.
No, here, but don't youexpect him this morning? No,
there's no possibility in mister Holmes comingas far as I know. But couldn't
you get him to come? Itwould be such a great favor to me.
I'm almost worn out with going abouthim with a dreadful anxiety. If
you could get work and mister Holm, I could not get him to come
down him and I beg you toexcuse me. I'm going out myself of
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certain business. I have no ideawhen miter Holmes, that's probably nothing more
than a broken down happen. That'swhat it is. But that's the bell
says somebody. You don't allow anybodyto come in. I have no more
time. That honey is right awayton't the doctor just can't see anybody came
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straight? All right? Help himin like? Can I hear from you?
Oh? Leg this way, hesaid, the bee cancel of the
soup. That's the accident. Wellyou, Curt, that's enough. He
was on the wrong side of thestreet. He was over to the corner.
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I sit here. Don't you supposeI know where I want to sit
down and you'll sit down here?That is the doctor. The doctor will
ever look at you. He isthe doctor. That is the doctor.
He's a doctor. He aducted.I guess coming never look at his old
head hisself a little. Are youa Cameron? Yes, I'm the cabman.
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Well have you erected for this?Arrested? Arrested, arrested on arrest?
No, no, I can't putsomebody else can Where's my hat?
Where's my hat? My hat?My hat? Am mind your head.
I will mind my hat. Ihold you responsible. You're right in your
end. Go on, sit Thatisn't my hat. Yeah, you're responsible.
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I have you're wrested here, comeback, stick around you. You
know I got bring your heart inhere. I want to stick to him.
Let's say I won't stay in thisspace I ever get out of your
alive? What are you standing at? People? It is? Tell that
captain wait for me. I'm notto see this bad my fraid it will
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sit quiet for one moment. I'llhave a look at him. Well,
stay still, How can I remarkableremarkable weather? We're having a doctor ho
What on earth can about having youremoved from this ridiculous disguise? Wasn't home?
Is that when we get out ofthe window to do nothing already been
(50:29):
done by missus larrabie here? Idon't think so, Watson, for good
workman, take a stay in chargea good woman? Wait from outside?
What's in my differ? I regretto say that that's the present time.
Professor Myaty himself has not risen tothe base. Where do you think he
(50:51):
is in the open streets under someclever disguise, watching for a chance to
get a hi, to let themknow by some signal if she found me
in the house. Now they know. Pull down that blank Watson. I
don't care to be shot at fromthe street. Imagine we shall hear from
(51:12):
the person walty very soon. Now? What did I tell you? He
come, sir? From where healso across the street. He was in
there and watching these windows. Hemust have seen something, for he just
come out. There was a cabweods in front of this house, sir,
and he's climbed up and changed placeswith a driver again quickly and keep
your eye on him. Thank you, Watson, you didn't have a rather
(51:35):
heavy apartmenteau for a few moments.I won't do it anyhow. I'm part
of my large dad's still over bitin the corner. Thank you, Parsons.
Put it down there, Thank youso much. Parsons. You wanted
to cap the doctor a short timeago. It's been waiting. I believe
you think it be so good asto tell the driver to come in here
and get a release. He comes, tell him that's the one. Very
(52:00):
good, right, dear Watson.Sounds like these. You should tell you
a man never to take the firstcab that comes on call, or yet
the second. The third may besafe. But hold that this bag I'm
not taking down, all right?Goodbye, Watson, by fellow. Wait
(52:23):
a minute, driver pretty heavy,our friend, and they help you,
Watson, I'll write you from thepest driver. The scrapped it. Well,
that's right, I hold it eitheryou you pulled the strap. Two
little things in this bag that Iwouldn't like to lose. And it's just
(52:45):
as well to make quite sure,is it not? Professor up there by
means of a simple pair of handcuffsis the end I ventured to dream that
it might be. You're quite surethe police will be able to hold me,
(53:09):
Professor Moriarty. I'm quite sure ofnothing. Take him away from him.
And so my dear Watson ends thestrange case of Miss Alice Faulkner.
(53:30):
All the letters they will return totheir rat Clona over and I'll go.
I suspected from the start that MissFaukner was really a nice girls. Huh
Yeah, I was just reflecting theidea Watson. With Moriarty out of the
way, London, from the pointof view of the criminal expert, it's
likely to become a singularly uninteresting city. One morning paper veritable willedness of boredom.
(54:00):
Noah says she's got a murder.She says she's from which I deduced
that she is a lady of overforty one and less than forty five,
of the strange, dark beauty andconsiderable social eminence that she has lived for
some years in the Near East thatshe's now wearing a large blood ruby on
the second thing as a left handsHolmes, how do you know these things?
(54:22):
It's amazing elementary and idea Watson elementary, the child's play of Deduction again
(54:44):
to night the Columbia Broadcasting System whois affiliated station Coast to Coast, I've
brought you awesome Bowes and the MercuryTheater on the air see Prout production in
this unique series featuring broadways and radiois now celebrated theatrical producing company this evening
the play was awesome well his ownadaptation of William Gillette Sherlock Holmes in the
cast. Doctor Watson played by RayCollins, Alice Paukner by Mary Taylor,
(55:08):
lads Larabye by Benda Forbes, JamesLarrabie by Edgar Darrier, Respected Foreman by
Morgan Farley, Fagan by Richard Wilson, Blassic by Alfred Shirley, Larry by
William Allen, Jilly by Arthur Anderson, Professor Moriarty by Yusuf Wyatt, and
Sherlock Holmes by Orson Wales. Theorchestra was conducted by Bernard Hermann and the
(55:30):
production of supervised for CBS by DavidsonTaylor. The announcer is Frank Gallop.
(56:02):
Next Sunday Evening. At the sametime, another classic narrative dramatized by Orson
Welles Join of Them for Charles Dickens'sOliver Quist doctornized by the Mercury Theater on the air
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