Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem

<v Speaker 1>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We present the original stories
<v Speaker 1>of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized anew with
<v Speaker 1>Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson as
<v Speaker 1>Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty.
<v Speaker 2>It is with a heavy heart that I come before
<v Speaker 2>you with the last adventure of my friend Sherlock Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>That I shall be able to relate. I have tried,
<v Speaker 2>in my humble way to chronicle some of our exploits
<v Speaker 2>together to demonstrate the singular gifts of that most remarkable
<v Speaker 2>of men. It lies with me now to tell you
<v Speaker 2>what occurred between Holmes and his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty,
<v Speaker 2>when at last they came face to face.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Sherlock Holmes, your efforts on the side of law
<v Speaker 3>and order have seriously inconvenienced me. The situation between us
<v Speaker 3>is becoming an impossible one, mister Holmes. It simply cannot
<v Speaker 3>go on. One or the other of us must die,
<v Speaker 3>must die, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>It was in the spring of eighteen nine one. You
<v Speaker 2>will remember, perhaps that, after my marriage and return to
<v Speaker 2>private practice, Holmes and I had drifted apart a little.
<v Speaker 2>I followed the newspaper reports of his cases, of course,
<v Speaker 2>and called on him quite often at the old rooms
<v Speaker 2>in Baker Street. Even so, however, many weeks would sometimes
<v Speaker 2>e left between our meetings, And so it was with
<v Speaker 2>some surprise one April evening that I looked up and
<v Speaker 2>saw him standing before me in my study. Good evening, Watson, Ah,
<v Speaker 2>good evening, Holmes. Have you a cigarette for me?
<v Speaker 4>Homes?
<v Speaker 5>It?
<v Speaker 4>Great? Heavens man? How ill you look? Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I've been using myself up rather too freely of late,
<v Speaker 2>old friend. You'n objection if I close your window shutters? No,
<v Speaker 2>of course, Now, yeah, you're not afraid of anything, are you?
<v Speaker 4>At truth? I am rather for it's not like you, Holmes.
<v Speaker 4>What is it? Yeah? Guns? Air guns? What on earth
<v Speaker 4>do you mean?
<v Speaker 2>There's a new and deadly type of air gun, Watson,
<v Speaker 2>which has been especially designed by an old acquaintance of ours.
<v Speaker 4>What, professor Moriarty? We could only be he from your
<v Speaker 4>tone the same A match? Give me a match with you,
<v Speaker 4>my dear fellow. Yes, of course, well, thank you. Is
<v Speaker 4>missus Watson at home? Oh no, she's on a visit
<v Speaker 4>to an arm uite alone. Good.
<v Speaker 1>Good.
<v Speaker 2>That makes it easier for me to propose that you
<v Speaker 2>should come away with me for a few days delighted.
<v Speaker 2>But where, oh the continent, somewhere abroad, abroad is that
<v Speaker 2>whiskey in the decanta? Now look here, Pols, what's all
<v Speaker 2>this about? There's something more serious in your man now than.
<v Speaker 6>You never did quite believe in the iniquities of Moriarty,
<v Speaker 6>did you, Watson?
<v Speaker 4>You've said some more than once I told you exaggerated
<v Speaker 4>a bit.
<v Speaker 2>After all, Professor Moriarty is a respectable figure in public,
<v Speaker 2>just so, And that's the very genius of the man.
<v Speaker 2>Even you, Watson, knowing me as you do, can't quite
<v Speaker 2>believe me when I tell you that he corrupts all London.
<v Speaker 4>With his evil influence. I can't quite believe that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, of course, to the world he's still the professor,
<v Speaker 2>a great mathematician.
<v Speaker 4>He's respectable.
<v Speaker 2>But what real proof have you that he's anything else? None, well,
<v Speaker 2>at least not until this last month, And even now
<v Speaker 2>the chain isn't quite complete. But three days more and
<v Speaker 2>I shall have him, Watson, three days more, if I
<v Speaker 2>live to see them. You can't seriously suppose that your
<v Speaker 2>life's in danger homes. No, huh, you always love to
<v Speaker 2>be melodramatic.
<v Speaker 4>Melodramatic. Listen Watson.
<v Speaker 2>This morning, this very morning, in those old rooms of
<v Speaker 2>ours in Baker Street, I saw him, face to face.
<v Speaker 2>I spoke to him, why aren't you, your distinguished professor?
<v Speaker 4>Within him a criminal strain of the musta bolical.
<v Speaker 2>Kind, that great white dome of a forehead, those hooded eyes,
<v Speaker 2>and the white face pushed forward, oscillating from sight to
<v Speaker 2>side like a snake.
<v Speaker 4>Of course, if you believe the old heresy of physiognomy,
<v Speaker 4>and only that, of course not.
<v Speaker 2>I've worked for years to follow a thousand different threads,
<v Speaker 2>and every one of them has led to Moriarty.
<v Speaker 4>He's a napoleon of crime.
<v Speaker 2>Watson, the secret organizer of almost everything evil that goes undetected.
<v Speaker 4>In this great city of ours.
<v Speaker 2>There he sits, motionless, like a spider in the center
<v Speaker 2>of its web, a web with a thousand strands, and
<v Speaker 2>he controls them everyone, But slowly, very slowly. My own
<v Speaker 2>secret plans to expose him have borne fruit.
<v Speaker 4>Every day.
<v Speaker 2>My neit is joining tighter, and he knows it, Watson,
<v Speaker 2>he knows the danger he's in, and that was why
<v Speaker 2>today he came to see me. I was playing my violin,
<v Speaker 2>as you know I often do when I want to think,
<v Speaker 2>and suddenly there he was, standing in the doorway with
<v Speaker 2>his white face swaying.
<v Speaker 4>In an evil way, peering at me with his hooded eyes.
<v Speaker 2>Good morning, Professor Moriarty, Good morning do you, mister Sherla comsily?
<v Speaker 4>How very charming do you play? How kind of you
<v Speaker 4>to say so? Won't you be seated?
<v Speaker 2>Professor Moriarty, I can spare.
<v Speaker 4>You just five minutes. It's singularly good of you. Thank you.
<v Speaker 4>We'll sit down. May I say something personal? Misters, certainly.
<v Speaker 3>Surprised to discover that you are rather less cranial development
<v Speaker 3>one might have expected.
<v Speaker 4>Well as you.
<v Speaker 2>On the contrary, I have rather more than I had imagined. Professor,
<v Speaker 2>you will recollect. I'm sure how that Beethoven's I did
<v Speaker 2>as both.
<v Speaker 4>How about our personal.
<v Speaker 2>Characteristics are highly relevant to the present situation.
<v Speaker 4>What have you rarely got to say to me? Well,
<v Speaker 4>perhaps I only suggested it was.
<v Speaker 3>Perhaps it is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms
<v Speaker 3>in the pocket of one's.
<v Speaker 4>Dressing guns homes.
<v Speaker 2>Evidently you share that dangerous habit, Professor, I see that
<v Speaker 2>you keep your hand in the pocket of your morning coat.
<v Speaker 2>Supposing we lay our pistols and our cards on the table.
<v Speaker 4>By all means, I was about to suggest it myself.
<v Speaker 3>I see you favored the mauser attacked, mister Holmes, and
<v Speaker 3>without a silence, serve I must permit me to presentially
<v Speaker 3>sometimes with one of these small devices of my own design,
<v Speaker 3>quite convenient in avoiding unpleasant noise.
<v Speaker 2>You know, how very kind of your professor, You must
<v Speaker 2>ask the hangman to deliver it to me at your
<v Speaker 2>last request.
<v Speaker 4>You evidently don't know me, mister. On the contrary, I
<v Speaker 4>think I know you better than you know yourself.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't take up your gun again, Professor, I've already.
<v Speaker 3>Got you covered with mine, so I perceived, But I
<v Speaker 3>assure you it was only to give a harmless demonstration
<v Speaker 3>of the silencer of my own small accomplishments as a marksman.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Holmes, I've read in those accounts of doctor Watson
<v Speaker 3>that somewhat no doubt anyable friend of yours on the
<v Speaker 3>wall there nat from your indoor revolver practice.
<v Speaker 2>Quite so the initials there we are Victoria, Regina, God save.
<v Speaker 3>My majesty, now that I see them it's impressed. They're
<v Speaker 3>not quite as symmetrical as they might say.
<v Speaker 4>One side of the the is a little short, I think,
<v Speaker 4>submit me to correct the slip.
<v Speaker 2>Admirable Professor Mariaty, you are perfectly right, of course, that
<v Speaker 2>little mistake has now been rectified.
<v Speaker 4>I'd like, howe if I may to improve upon it.
<v Speaker 2>Your bullet mark is perhaps a shade smaller than my own.
<v Speaker 4>Permit me, Admirable mister.
<v Speaker 2>Holmes, Yeah, precisely above your own marked, Professor, the exact spot,
<v Speaker 2>I think.
<v Speaker 4>No, no play, don't look alarm.
<v Speaker 2>My good landlady is quite a discustomed to that noise.
<v Speaker 2>We shall not be disturbed. I'm very glad of it,
<v Speaker 2>for I have to say is not without importance. Mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>Shall we stop off fencing it by all means?
<v Speaker 6>If you will permit me first to correct one statement
<v Speaker 6>that you made just now with reference to my friend Dr.
<v Speaker 4>Watson, I am afraid I can go. They permit the adjective.
<v Speaker 2>Though thine, in his accounts of my humble exploits, he's
<v Speaker 2>been good enough to exaggerate my own achievements, and has
<v Speaker 2>always been unduly modest about his own. He is a
<v Speaker 2>most upright and honorable gentleman, Professor, I'm very close to
<v Speaker 2>my heart. You may say what you will about me,
<v Speaker 2>but I can allow no derogatory words about him who.
<v Speaker 3>As I apologize, we who are about to die, salute
<v Speaker 3>him pleased.
<v Speaker 4>You do.
<v Speaker 2>You are very certain, aren't you, Professor Moriarty, that it
<v Speaker 2>is I who am going to die?
<v Speaker 3>If it is not, of course, unless you listen to reason,
<v Speaker 3>the situation between us, mister Frans is becoming an impossible one.
<v Speaker 4>It simply cannot go on it won't, I assure you.
<v Speaker 2>For these past few months, I've been working to put
<v Speaker 2>an end to it, all of the earliest possible.
<v Speaker 3>Moment, and you have very nearly undone the careful endeavor
<v Speaker 3>of a lifetime, Sir, for at least have seriously threatened it. No,
<v Speaker 3>don't moved your pistol again. I'm only taking out my
<v Speaker 3>memorandum book.
<v Speaker 4>I beg your pardon. I find it recorded here.
<v Speaker 3>And she crossed my path on the fourth of januine
<v Speaker 3>homes from the twenty third you incnluded me. At the
<v Speaker 3>middle of February. I was seriously inconvenienced for you. The
<v Speaker 3>end of March I was absolutely hampered, and.
<v Speaker 4>Not the close of April.
<v Speaker 3>I find us a place in such a position through
<v Speaker 3>your continual persecution, that I am in positive danger of
<v Speaker 3>losing my liberty.
<v Speaker 7>That was certainly the end I had in view. Then
<v Speaker 7>you must drop it, mister Holmes, You really must.
<v Speaker 4>You not till after Monday, Professor. You know as well
<v Speaker 4>as I do that you've made a slip, one single
<v Speaker 4>tiny slip. For years, I've been aware.
<v Speaker 2>Of you, Mariatti, at the center of your organization. Forgeries,
<v Speaker 2>murder cases, robberies. A thousand crimes were planned by you.
<v Speaker 2>A hundred agents carried them out. Your subordinates were caught sometimes.
<v Speaker 7>But you never were. And yet you know you made
<v Speaker 7>that slip, that single time you slip, and you.
<v Speaker 4>Know as well as I do that it will destroy you.
<v Speaker 2>In three more days, my evidence will be complete. I
<v Speaker 2>shall have you expose, brought to trial, condemned and hanged,
<v Speaker 2>and you can do nothing whatever to prevent it. My
<v Speaker 2>will is inflexible, and so is mine. Three days, do
<v Speaker 2>you say, And before that out the end will come.
<v Speaker 2>One or the other of us must die, sir. Quite so,
<v Speaker 2>the five minutes is up, Professor, and I must rarely
<v Speaker 2>ask you to excuse me in the pleasure of our conversation.
<v Speaker 4>I'm afraid that I've.
<v Speaker 6>Neglected business of importance elsewhere. Very well, then seems a
<v Speaker 6>pity done what I could. I admit that it's been
<v Speaker 6>an intellectual pleasure. Need to see the way in which
<v Speaker 6>you grapple to this affair.
<v Speaker 3>But I tell you solemnly, shore our Holmes, that if
<v Speaker 3>you are clever enough to bring destruction on me, you
<v Speaker 3>may rest assured that.
<v Speaker 4>I shall do as much to you. You have paid
<v Speaker 4>me several compliments during this indigue, Professor. Let me pay
<v Speaker 4>you one in return. When I say that, if I were.
<v Speaker 2>Assured of the former eventuality, I would most cheerfully accept
<v Speaker 2>the latter.
<v Speaker 4>I can promise you the one, but not the other.
<v Speaker 4>Good day, mister Holmes. Oh your pistol, professor, you may
<v Speaker 4>need it before Monday.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you, good day, Professor. I think good bye is
<v Speaker 3>the word, mister Sherlock Holmes. Good bye.
<v Speaker 4>And so it was you, see Watson, that singular interview
<v Speaker 4>with the greatest criminal of all time and his with
<v Speaker 4>the greatest detective. Oh thank you, my dear fellow. But
<v Speaker 4>but what are you going to do? Holmes? I told
<v Speaker 4>you where we leave.
<v Speaker 2>For the continent Mariot is not the man to let
<v Speaker 2>the grass grow under his feet. Already one or two
<v Speaker 2>accidents have nearly befallen me to day upon myself.
<v Speaker 4>The police are gathering all my evidence against him. Everything
<v Speaker 4>will be complete in three short days. Meanwhile, I can
<v Speaker 4>only lie low. Are you able to leave your practice
<v Speaker 4>to come with me? I've an accommodating neighbor. Ah, Dear Watson,
<v Speaker 4>I knew I could count on you. All right. Then,
<v Speaker 4>Now these are your instructions. Listen most carefully. Instruction at homes.
<v Speaker 4>I assure you they are most necessary.
<v Speaker 2>To morrow morning, at eight forty five, you will take
<v Speaker 2>a handsome cab.
<v Speaker 4>I'll arrange for one to call.
<v Speaker 2>No, No, you really mustter baby to the letter Watson,
<v Speaker 2>you will leave the house alone to morrow morning and
<v Speaker 2>take neither the first nor the second cab, which presents
<v Speaker 2>itself at the rank very well Holmes, and the address
<v Speaker 2>to the cabman written on a slip of paper, and
<v Speaker 2>tell him not to throw it away, and I'll drive I.
<v Speaker 4>Take it to Victoria Station.
<v Speaker 2>On the contrary, you drive to the strand end of
<v Speaker 2>the Lauda arcade I see, and then have your fare
<v Speaker 2>ready and the instant your cab stops, pay him, and
<v Speaker 2>dash through the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other
<v Speaker 2>side at exactly a quarter past nine.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, but my dear, no man, listen carefully. It's vital.
<v Speaker 4>Our lives depend upon it.
<v Speaker 2>When you get there, you'll find a broom standing close
<v Speaker 2>to the curb, driven by a fellow with a black
<v Speaker 2>cloak tipped with red. Say nothing, simply jump in and
<v Speaker 2>he'll drive you to Victoria in time for the Continental Express.
<v Speaker 4>And where shall I meet you, Holmes, The.
<v Speaker 2>Second coach from the front of the train of first
<v Speaker 2>class carriage reserved for us. Good night, Watson, and as
<v Speaker 2>you value our lives, don't forget a single word.
<v Speaker 4>Of my instructions. No, no, no, of course, not home
<v Speaker 4>until we meet tomorrow. Then until we meet.
<v Speaker 2>I was infected myself with something of his own inner
<v Speaker 2>excitement and sense of menace. I took the hansom and
<v Speaker 2>then the broom with its massive hooded driver. I said
<v Speaker 2>nothing to him, as I was instructed, and he never
<v Speaker 2>spoke to me. A moment later, we were rattling to
<v Speaker 2>the station. There he left me and drove off without
<v Speaker 2>a further glance, his face still hidden. There was no
<v Speaker 2>sign of homes, and my heart sank miserably.
<v Speaker 4>I found our reserved carriage.
<v Speaker 2>But through some confusion, a decrepit old Italian priest was
<v Speaker 2>sitting there. The moments came for departure, still I waited
<v Speaker 2>by the window, in a chill of fear.
<v Speaker 4>Schools a signor pray girls. I'm sorry partly I don't
<v Speaker 4>speak Italian nor th I was up him. Oh for stones.
<v Speaker 2>Man, this is no laughing matter, not yet anywhere death
<v Speaker 2>you see.
<v Speaker 4>Stop the tray. It's Moriarty himself, the tall man. He'll
<v Speaker 4>never do it. Stop the train, I said, you pull jewel.
<v Speaker 2>Even the great Moriarty himself is helpless against the British Railway.
<v Speaker 2>Sister Watson, well, well it gives us an hour's respite
<v Speaker 2>at least.
<v Speaker 4>But how how did he know where we were? By
<v Speaker 4>watching you?
<v Speaker 2>I expect, but I did that thing you told me.
<v Speaker 2>Wait Holmes, the driver of the brone.
<v Speaker 4>But what about him? He was muffled.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't see his face. It must have been one
<v Speaker 2>of Moriarty's men. My dear Watson, it is nothing of
<v Speaker 2>the sort. It is my brother Micraft, shaken for once
<v Speaker 2>out of his arm chair at the Diogenes Club, gore.
<v Speaker 4>Heavens the thing is serious then, of course, but at least.
<v Speaker 2>We have an hour and I can use it to
<v Speaker 2>take off this disguise and think things over. But we've
<v Speaker 2>escaped him altogether, surely since the train connects with the boat.
<v Speaker 4>My dear fellow, you evidently don't realize even.
<v Speaker 2>Now that Moriarty is an opponent on practically the same
<v Speaker 2>intellectual plane as myself.
<v Speaker 4>Do you really imagine if I were the pursuer, I.
<v Speaker 2>Will permit myself to be baffled by so slight an
<v Speaker 2>obstacle as an express training What'll he do?
<v Speaker 4>Then? What I should do? Engage a special But.
<v Speaker 2>It'd be too late even then by no means we
<v Speaker 2>stop at Canterbury, don't forget, And there was always a
<v Speaker 2>delay of a quarter of an hour when the train.
<v Speaker 4>Gets to Dover.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I so you'd almost think we were the criminals
<v Speaker 2>to be chased like this. You mean that he'll catch
<v Speaker 2>us after all them?
<v Speaker 4>I hope not. We shan't be there, Watson. Look look here, Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>I hate to grumble after all this time, but well there,
<v Speaker 2>I do think you ought to tell me what you mean.
<v Speaker 2>Heaven bless you for a start, and faithful friend, Watson,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, it's only a well, well, I don't want
<v Speaker 2>to expose you to danger too, That's why I'm being
<v Speaker 2>so mysterious.
<v Speaker 4>It's very simple, really.
<v Speaker 2>We shall just get out at Canterbury, indeed, and not
<v Speaker 2>go on the continents after all, I suppose, yes, we.
<v Speaker 4>Must do there.
<v Speaker 2>We've no choice but to hide away until after Monday,
<v Speaker 2>when the evidence will have been completed.
<v Speaker 4>You've not seen the papers this morning, I spoke.
<v Speaker 2>Oh really, Holmes, what time do you think I've had
<v Speaker 2>for the one must try to make time for everything, Watson.
<v Speaker 4>You really should have read about Baker Street. What Baker Street?
<v Speaker 2>If they set fire to our rooms loud night, missus
<v Speaker 2>Hudson was away from home, fortunately, and no one was
<v Speaker 2>hurt iled there to say they thought I was there,
<v Speaker 2>of course, so the thing's intolerable. Yes, only till Monday, Watson.
<v Speaker 2>And by then we will be in Switzerland. We'll make
<v Speaker 2>a cross country journey from Canterbury and take the other
<v Speaker 2>boat from New headon to Dieppe. Unless, of course, right
<v Speaker 2>our friend the Professor deduces what I would deduce and
<v Speaker 2>gets off at Canterbury himself.
<v Speaker 4>Ah, that would truly be a Koude.
<v Speaker 2>Met he surely never would well, I rather doubted there
<v Speaker 2>are limits even to his intelligence. No, no, I think
<v Speaker 2>we are safe enough, old friend, And now there's time
<v Speaker 2>for a pipe.
<v Speaker 4>I fancy won't you join me? Watson?
<v Speaker 2>And thus it befell. As we hid behind the pile
<v Speaker 2>of luggage at Canton, we saw the single carriage of
<v Speaker 2>the Special Gulf thundering past us, And so we made
<v Speaker 2>our way across country and at last reached Switzerland. It
<v Speaker 2>seemed we had luded him. To fill in every detail
<v Speaker 2>of the final scene is hardly possible, since there was
<v Speaker 2>no witness to it.
<v Speaker 4>Yet from a certain.
<v Speaker 2>Source that I cannot yet divouge, I do know something
<v Speaker 2>of that last encounter.
<v Speaker 4>We wondered at.
<v Speaker 2>Our will through the lovely valley of the Rhone, and
<v Speaker 2>made our way by way of Interlaken to the little
<v Speaker 2>township of Milligan among the Alps.
<v Speaker 4>The fatal Monday.
<v Speaker 2>Came and went, and yet I was still aware of
<v Speaker 2>a strange feebi of excitement in my companion.
<v Speaker 4>He was at.
<v Speaker 2>Times feverishly on the alert, then sinking into reverie, and
<v Speaker 2>would smile strangely to himself. I went with him on
<v Speaker 2>that last day of all on a visit to the
<v Speaker 2>Falls of Reichenbach, for ever hallowed and yet cursed in
<v Speaker 2>my memory, it's a fearful place, indeed, with a torrent
<v Speaker 2>plunging far below into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined
<v Speaker 2>by cold, black, glistening rock high above.
<v Speaker 4>A pathway has been cut in the cliff face.
<v Speaker 2>To afford a better view, but it ends abruptly in
<v Speaker 2>mid air, and the traveler has to return as he came.
<v Speaker 2>We stood there gizsily, marveling at the great spectacle, and
<v Speaker 2>on the instant came a message for me by a
<v Speaker 2>village lad to say that an English lady back at
<v Speaker 2>the hotel was seriously ill and.
<v Speaker 4>Needed my immediate attention. I turned to go.
<v Speaker 2>I looked back, and I saw Holmes leaning against a
<v Speaker 2>rock with his arms folded, gazing down at the rush
<v Speaker 2>of the waters.
<v Speaker 4>It was the last I saw.
<v Speaker 5>Is that you Watson back already, Moriarty well sherlack Cobs.
<v Speaker 3>You see, I found you after all, and alone alone,
<v Speaker 3>as indeed you must be two.
<v Speaker 4>How if your.
<v Speaker 2>Confederates are all under lock and key I've heard from
<v Speaker 2>Scotland yard skipped.
<v Speaker 4>I was too clever for them, Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>I don't doubt it, but I'm afraid your occupation's gone, Professor,
<v Speaker 2>with your organization destroyed, unless you care to return to
<v Speaker 2>your mathematics.
<v Speaker 4>It was not my intention. I have another, more immediate intention,
<v Speaker 4>Sherlock Holmes. Are you prepared? But before we discuss that,
<v Speaker 4>perhaps you extend me one small courtesy, Professor, most certainly,
<v Speaker 4>what is it? My friend Watson? Professor, no doubt he
<v Speaker 4>will be somewhat concerned. May I just take a moment
<v Speaker 4>to scribble a note to him?
<v Speaker 3>Certainly we can fix the paper beneath my help and
<v Speaker 3>stuff there, since it does not blow away, if they
<v Speaker 3>take as long as you wish.
<v Speaker 4>That's very good of you.
<v Speaker 2>Please don't stop talking, Professor. I mastered long ago the
<v Speaker 2>art of writing and conversing at the same time.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you.
<v Speaker 3>You know, of course, that's the message to write a
<v Speaker 3>doctor Watson as a false one.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, of course I knew it at once, and
<v Speaker 2>that it could only come from one source.
<v Speaker 4>And yet you let him go.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Professor, I let him go. I am not without
<v Speaker 2>some affection for him.
<v Speaker 4>I do not wish to put his life in danger too.
<v Speaker 2>Besides, I have looked forward for a long time to
<v Speaker 2>this final duel between us.
<v Speaker 3>I believe at Holmes, you are a very remarkable man
<v Speaker 3>in many ways.
<v Speaker 4>In many ways, Sir, I'm proud to have known you.
<v Speaker 4>Oh and I you Professor.
<v Speaker 2>There my letters done, then perhaps you will become I
<v Speaker 2>don't have to place it as you suggested.
<v Speaker 4>Now, how shall it be? Mariati? I did not bring
<v Speaker 4>a piscopal homes.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you your participlets meet to shame.
<v Speaker 4>Professor. There is my pistol. It goes into the falls,
<v Speaker 4>hand to hand. Yes, goodbye, Professor Mariotti. Goodbye, Sherlock Holmes,
<v Speaker 4>m M.
<v Speaker 2>The end, the end. When I returned to that broken pathway,
<v Speaker 2>it was only too clear what had happened. It needed
<v Speaker 2>no great application of Holmes's own methods of deduction.
<v Speaker 4>Two sets of footsteps to the.
<v Speaker 2>Verge, and none returning, locked in each other's arms as
<v Speaker 2>they fought.
<v Speaker 4>They had gone down to the abyss.
<v Speaker 2>Only the letter the last greeting from my friends and comrade,
<v Speaker 2>my dear dear Watson, he wrote, My dear dear Watson,
<v Speaker 2>I scribble this through the courtesy of Professor Moriarty, who
<v Speaker 2>awaits my convenience for the final discussion of those eternal
<v Speaker 2>questions which lie before us.
<v Speaker 4>There can be but.
<v Speaker 2>One outcome, although I fear that it is as to cost,
<v Speaker 2>which will give pain to my friends, and especially my
<v Speaker 2>dear Watson. To you, I think, however, that I may
<v Speaker 2>go so far as to sa say that I have
<v Speaker 2>not lived entirely in vain. Pray tell Inspector Patterson of
<v Speaker 2>the papers which he needs for a full conviction.
<v Speaker 4>Of the Moriarty gang are in Pigeonhole. M Before leaving England.
<v Speaker 2>I made every disposition of my property and handed it
<v Speaker 2>over to my brother Mycroft. Pray give my affectionate greetings
<v Speaker 2>to missus Watson, and remember me as I used to
<v Speaker 2>be in our old days at Baker Street, pacing to
<v Speaker 2>and fro with my violin and driving you to a
<v Speaker 2>point of sad distraction. With that theme, you still were
<v Speaker 2>good enough to say you loved believe me to be
<v Speaker 2>my very dear good fellow.
<v Speaker 8>Yours most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes, Yours most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes,
<v Speaker 8>and so he perished, whom I shall ever regard as
<v Speaker 8>the best and wisest man that I have ever known.
<v Speaker 8>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories
<v Speaker 8>of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized ANEW by
<v Speaker 8>John Kerr Cross stars Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes,
<v Speaker 8>Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells
<v Speaker 8>as Professor Moriarty. Produced by Harry Allen Towers, I beg
<v Speaker 6>My son and I know