Sherlock Holmes - Living Doll

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<v Speaker 4>Oh you are, mister bo good evening.
<v Speaker 1>Oh excuse me, doctor Watson. I didn't know that you
<v Speaker 1>had company.
<v Speaker 4>Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
<v Speaker 4>Hit mestery. Buto, this is my friend, missus Campbell.
<v Speaker 3>How do you do, missus Campbell?
<v Speaker 1>How do you?
<v Speaker 4>Miss Campbell is a very old friend of mine from England,
<v Speaker 4>and when she called on me today, I've persuaded it
<v Speaker 4>to stay dinner and then join us in this little
<v Speaker 4>session of storytelling.
<v Speaker 1>You see, mister.
<v Speaker 4>Bartell, she's really what you might call the star the
<v Speaker 4>Sherlock Holmes Adventure that I'm going to tell you tonight.
<v Speaker 5>Oh come now, Doster Watson. I actually played a very
<v Speaker 5>small part of the story. In any case, I was
<v Speaker 5>much too young at the time to know what was
<v Speaker 5>really going on.
<v Speaker 2>Say this is a great idea, doctor, One of the
<v Speaker 2>characters out of your fabulous past. Here in California in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen hundred, and forty six and helps tell her own story.
<v Speaker 6>Oh no, mister Bartell, I know storyteller. That's the doctor's department.
<v Speaker 6>I'll just listen.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll set the scene.
<v Speaker 1>But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
<v Speaker 1>In any case, my.
<v Speaker 4>Memory isn't to tear on some of the early points
<v Speaker 4>in connection with the case.
<v Speaker 5>You will have to help me out, hope with your
<v Speaker 5>top do millions of listeners on the radio. I'd be
<v Speaker 5>terrified to speak over the air.
<v Speaker 3>We're on the air now, missus Campbell.
<v Speaker 6>Oh oh we not are we?
<v Speaker 7>Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Oh, dear Anna, don't listen to If they're kind enough
<v Speaker 4>to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
<v Speaker 4>be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
<v Speaker 4>with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll.
<v Speaker 4>The setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
<v Speaker 4>which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
<v Speaker 1>And not until my dear, the captain going up and
<v Speaker 1>the first scene belongs to you, supposing you said it
<v Speaker 1>for us.
<v Speaker 5>Well, ah, I'll try. We were living on the Sussex Downs. Also,
<v Speaker 5>mister Bartel at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning.
<v Speaker 5>My father, Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but
<v Speaker 5>my mother kept up the estate with the manager, Miss
<v Speaker 5>hough Tanner. I was away at school most of the year,
<v Speaker 5>of course, but the happiest times of my childhood was
<v Speaker 5>spent during those long summer months in Sussex. I lived
<v Speaker 5>in a small world, knowing only a few people, and
<v Speaker 5>loving all of them, or almost all. First of all,
<v Speaker 5>there was mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman
<v Speaker 5>in the world, and the sweetest. I remember she gave
<v Speaker 5>me a puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name he
<v Speaker 5>was Dusty, and he was so sweet. I talked to
<v Speaker 5>Mother about him one day. I must have sounded terribly young.
<v Speaker 8>Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
<v Speaker 8>a lovely puppy.
<v Speaker 6>And you gave him to me. You love him, Cynthia.
<v Speaker 6>I know that, but I've been feeding him. That's your job, darling.
<v Speaker 6>It's good for grown up people to have responsibility.
<v Speaker 8>Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
<v Speaker 6>I I'll feed him so far hip burns.
<v Speaker 5>Then there was the estate manager, you Tenna, such a
<v Speaker 5>pleasant man and so willing to tell a twelve year
<v Speaker 5>old all the things that a twelve year old has to.
<v Speaker 6>Know are die.
<v Speaker 8>But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
<v Speaker 8>He'd only broken his.
<v Speaker 7>Leg, Cynthia, Horses aren't like human feets, their legs board men.
<v Speaker 9>I think of a horse that couldn't frisk and run
<v Speaker 9>and gallop across towns.
<v Speaker 7>We're actually being kind to him, honest to be, asked
<v Speaker 7>him good.
<v Speaker 5>And then there was very King, the painter who lived
<v Speaker 5>on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
<v Speaker 5>and really see him.
<v Speaker 6>No, no, no, Cynthia, that Sansett isn't red.
<v Speaker 1>It's gold and rushed and the water child, look at.
<v Speaker 9>It, it's almost rose in this light, rose flicked with cobwebs.
<v Speaker 1>Think shell blue, don't you, darling? A Santa's never just
<v Speaker 1>one color?
<v Speaker 3>Still try and remember that, would you.
<v Speaker 5>And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
<v Speaker 5>gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
<v Speaker 5>marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
<v Speaker 10>Uh, Cynthia, I am going to give you a half
<v Speaker 10>a crown for being a very good at a girl.
<v Speaker 3>Now tell me what will you do with it?
<v Speaker 6>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>No, no, my dear, this is your own money.
<v Speaker 1>You put it in the savings.
<v Speaker 3>Account at the post office, and it would make more
<v Speaker 3>money for you.
<v Speaker 10>Always remember, my dear, take care of the pennies, and
<v Speaker 10>the pounds will take.
<v Speaker 3>Care of themselves.
<v Speaker 5>Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
<v Speaker 5>the things that aren't in books.
<v Speaker 6>Always remember my bunny.
<v Speaker 1>But it's good luck.
<v Speaker 5>To touch the hump of a hunchwilt.
<v Speaker 8>But the purso be Aldiva himself will be upon ye
<v Speaker 8>if you look at the slipper, save the moon through
<v Speaker 8>the glass.
<v Speaker 5>And then the strangest and most wonderful of all was
<v Speaker 5>the lean, middle aged man with a sharp face, and
<v Speaker 5>the Beannut, whom I meet one day on the downs.
<v Speaker 1>Good afternoon, young lady, Good afternoon.
<v Speaker 8>I'm Cynthia Barnie, one of his homes. Why are you
<v Speaker 8>carrying that net you're looking for?
<v Speaker 10>Back?
<v Speaker 3>Flat Popapo knows Ynthia.
<v Speaker 1>I'm a bee farmer, beef farmer.
<v Speaker 8>Oh that sounds funny, how your farm bee?
<v Speaker 10>Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
<v Speaker 10>I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
<v Speaker 6>Isn't a doll's?
<v Speaker 8>My mascot was given to be by Frank King, a painter.
<v Speaker 1>He made it for me.
<v Speaker 8>He made it to look as much like me as possible.
<v Speaker 8>I call her me.
<v Speaker 3>It's remarkable likeness.
<v Speaker 8>See the hair that's clippings off my hair, and the
<v Speaker 8>nails though, the clippings from my own nails. She's really
<v Speaker 8>mean that.
<v Speaker 3>Your un nailed hair, and the dog isn't exact replico
<v Speaker 3>of you. I don't like it, Cynthia.
<v Speaker 10>I remember my dear my name when you were it's
<v Speaker 10>a Shellack Holmes and I live at the Bee Farm
<v Speaker 10>and if anything unusual happened, that come to me at once.
<v Speaker 5>Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
<v Speaker 5>with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
<v Speaker 1>You didn't understand why he was so worried about.
<v Speaker 5>The doll, No, but I remembered what he said about
<v Speaker 5>coming to him if anything unusual happened.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, mister Boutell, and we did a very few days.
<v Speaker 5>But at this point I think doctor Watson should take
<v Speaker 5>over the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really entered.
<v Speaker 1>In a really well.
<v Speaker 4>As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I was staying with
<v Speaker 4>Holmes lately afternoon, as I remember that you ran over
<v Speaker 4>to the bee farm when I.
<v Speaker 1>First met you Cynthia.
<v Speaker 4>A few moments before you arrived, Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>And I, each of us with a couple of.
<v Speaker 4>Tea, and our hands were seated on the verandah, gazing
<v Speaker 4>out across the downs, discussing the mutas drength.
<v Speaker 10>Watson, after a lifetime to git to the more flamboyant
<v Speaker 10>aspects of everyday life, that now, in what is the
<v Speaker 10>fast approaching twilight of my days, I find such peace
<v Speaker 10>and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior of Fees.
<v Speaker 3>I wonder what Marigati would have thought.
<v Speaker 1>You talking as if you're an old daughter of night.
<v Speaker 4>It you say what you like, and I don't think
<v Speaker 4>that you will ever really be happy in retirement.
<v Speaker 1>It us the danger, the excitement of the case the public.
<v Speaker 3>Of what are you talking about? My work is ever
<v Speaker 3>for the public a pieces?
<v Speaker 10>And what did the public, the great unobservant public, who
<v Speaker 10>can hardly tell a weaver by his tooth dollar types
<v Speaker 10>that are by his left fun care about the finer
<v Speaker 10>shades of analysis or deduction In any case, Watson, I
<v Speaker 10>chose a happy time.
<v Speaker 3>To sink into oblivion.
<v Speaker 10>In comparative, every recent years, the criminal seems to have
<v Speaker 10>lost all his originality and enterprise. My own little practice
<v Speaker 10>when I gave it up, and seemed to be in
<v Speaker 10>danger of developing into an agency for covering lost lead
<v Speaker 10>pencils or giving advice to gaint theates from boarding schools.
<v Speaker 1>Talking of young lady it is? Who's this little girl
<v Speaker 1>running up to your driveway?
<v Speaker 10>Oh, great, Scott, it's a little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie. And
<v Speaker 10>who wor chomming? Young neighbor of mine?
<v Speaker 1>Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 3>You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
<v Speaker 11>Mister Homes you told me to come to you. Something
<v Speaker 11>unusual happened. It has something that's frightened me.
<v Speaker 3>Well, no, said down, my dear. This is my old friend,
<v Speaker 3>doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 1>Oh how do you do, Cintia?
<v Speaker 6>How do you do?
<v Speaker 3>Ah, Centitia? What has frightened?
<v Speaker 6>For? It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
<v Speaker 4>Through the hot Great Scott, it darl it's an exact
<v Speaker 4>repercover with a penknife passed into it.
<v Speaker 10>Gracious way, when did you find your your mascot like this.
<v Speaker 6>Just a tea.
<v Speaker 11>Ronnie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
<v Speaker 11>went up to my room, hasan pour me on the bed.
<v Speaker 11>I remembered what you told me about anything unusual, and
<v Speaker 11>so I came over here as fast.
<v Speaker 3>As I could. I'm glad that you did.
<v Speaker 1>Did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 1>I didn't.
<v Speaker 6>She was still talking to the gentlemen.
<v Speaker 1>You worry about you.
<v Speaker 10>When she discovers your disappearance, I will go over and
<v Speaker 10>talk to her at once. Cynthia, my dear, Yes, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 10>who was a gentleman calling on your mother?
<v Speaker 11>Well, the wit, mister Tanner, he's the man who looks
<v Speaker 11>after the estate. The money, mister King.
<v Speaker 3>Mister King is the man who made this darle Eh.
<v Speaker 3>Now who else was there?
<v Speaker 6>Mister Town he's.
<v Speaker 8>A businessman from London that's staying with money.
<v Speaker 10>And they were all present in your house when you
<v Speaker 10>found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 10>what's no chap?
<v Speaker 1>You're so?
<v Speaker 10>I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother at once. I
<v Speaker 10>want Cynthia to take care with you. Got her old
<v Speaker 10>chap as you would life, missus Barning. I know I'm
<v Speaker 10>seen like an intrusive neighbor, but possibly you've heard of me.
<v Speaker 3>My name is Holmes.
<v Speaker 6>Sherlock comes well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 6>Please sit down, won't you?
<v Speaker 3>Thank you? You are guests have left?
<v Speaker 1>Yes?
<v Speaker 6>But how did you know I had guests? I know
<v Speaker 6>you're a great to take it.
<v Speaker 10>You know, your charming little daughter, Cynthia came over to
<v Speaker 10>see me half now, she told.
<v Speaker 6>Me, so that's where she went? Did she come back quickly?
<v Speaker 10>No, missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained
<v Speaker 10>at my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson
<v Speaker 10>will look after her. I am afraid she may be
<v Speaker 10>in danger.
<v Speaker 6>In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
<v Speaker 1>Do you know?
<v Speaker 10>Your daughter's dull one, fashioned in her own likeness and
<v Speaker 10>with her own hair and nails.
<v Speaker 6>Of course, Franking nade it for her.
<v Speaker 10>While you were achieve This afternoon, your daughter found the
<v Speaker 10>doll lying on her bed with a pen knife stuck
<v Speaker 10>through its heart.
<v Speaker 6>It's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
<v Speaker 6>be in any danger because of it, mister.
<v Speaker 3>Missus Banning, Certain practitioners of magic.
<v Speaker 10>Believe that if a doll like effigy is made of
<v Speaker 10>a human being and the effergy is then mutilated, that
<v Speaker 10>a similar fate will befall the living original.
<v Speaker 6>That, mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
<v Speaker 6>in it, not.
<v Speaker 3>In the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Banning.
<v Speaker 10>But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
<v Speaker 10>kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. No, it may be
<v Speaker 10>more than a possiblity of and when these magical means fail,
<v Speaker 10>they will turn to more direct methods.
<v Speaker 6>But who could possibly want her death?
<v Speaker 1>You were?
<v Speaker 3>You have not remarried, Missus Brownie.
<v Speaker 6>No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
<v Speaker 6>to ask as child Cynthia.
<v Speaker 3>If then, anyone wishing to marry you might feel that
<v Speaker 3>Cynthia stood in the way. But that's absurd but logical,
<v Speaker 3>Missus Brownie. Do you mind if I ask you a
<v Speaker 3>very personal question?
<v Speaker 6>With Cynthia's safety at stake? You may ask any question.
<v Speaker 10>Are any of the three men who were present at
<v Speaker 10>tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I please be completely honest, Missus Brownie.
<v Speaker 6>At different times they they've all asked me to marry them.
<v Speaker 10>Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
<v Speaker 10>husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
<v Speaker 10>this pen knife before? It was the one unstuck through
<v Speaker 10>the doll's heart.
<v Speaker 6>I don't think I've ever seen it before.
<v Speaker 10>One final question, anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a knowledge
<v Speaker 10>of the practice of magic?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 6>The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman?
<v Speaker 4>Might?
<v Speaker 3>Oh who? Might she be?
<v Speaker 6>A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
<v Speaker 6>downs near here. She brews, weird concoctions with her love
<v Speaker 6>filters and all that sort of thing.
<v Speaker 3>A suitable companion for your daughter, Missus Brownie.
<v Speaker 6>I know it's, mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
<v Speaker 6>over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
<v Speaker 6>old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
<v Speaker 6>her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
<v Speaker 3>I like to talk to this woman. And where does
<v Speaker 3>she live?
<v Speaker 6>I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
<v Speaker 6>He used her as a model.
<v Speaker 3>Thank King the Painter.
<v Speaker 10>Yes, he lives in the village, and ifall call on
<v Speaker 10>him at once and persuade him to accompany it. We
<v Speaker 10>must find that wise woman, and I hope save your
<v Speaker 10>child from magic, magic, impossible murder.
<v Speaker 9>Much further, mis king to only a few more yards,
<v Speaker 9>mister Holmes, I look cottages just behind the trees there.
<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty.
<v Speaker 3>Broken down place.
<v Speaker 1>Poor old girl.
<v Speaker 3>There's only a few pennies to her name. Missus Ranning
<v Speaker 3>was telling me that you'll use this old woman model. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>she was a fascinating subject.
<v Speaker 1>I painted her.
<v Speaker 9>She was mixing up some devil concoction of herbs and spices.
<v Speaker 9>I had her standing over a smoking coldron with the
<v Speaker 9>firelight playing.
<v Speaker 3>On her was who was spite?
<v Speaker 1>The factor?
<v Speaker 6>Hasn't?
<v Speaker 3>Must have been the subject of witchcraft, appeals to his king. Well,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know anything about it, which that's just. But
<v Speaker 3>she was such a wonderful subject for Payton. Here we are.
<v Speaker 3>I'm knock on the door and I will take the
<v Speaker 3>liberty of going in. Shine, I don't why not sh
<v Speaker 3>What is it? This came from that room? Someone is here?
<v Speaker 1>Come on, look at her, Look at her head.
<v Speaker 3>Poor She's alive. She's in long for this world? Can
<v Speaker 3>you hear me? Yeah? Let me lift you up a little?
<v Speaker 10>Can you understand what I'm saying. Tell me who is
<v Speaker 10>it that did this to you? She's too pagan speak
<v Speaker 10>a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
<v Speaker 10>were thanks. Now you write the name of the man
<v Speaker 10>who did this to you.
<v Speaker 9>She's pushing the pencil away. How don't foosh she knows
<v Speaker 9>how to write. She was trying to show you something,
<v Speaker 9>mister Holmes. She's trying to crawl over.
<v Speaker 10>To the wall. Y, yeah, let me help you. It's
<v Speaker 10>gonna be a hiding place of some kind. Look, she's
<v Speaker 10>taking a brick out of the door. What is it,
<v Speaker 10>Great scott money editable Jackdaws, A nest of pennies and
<v Speaker 10>small silver and at least a dozen golden sovereigns.
<v Speaker 3>That was for the money book.
<v Speaker 1>She's picking up one of the silver coins.
<v Speaker 3>She's trying to get to you a sixpence. But what
<v Speaker 3>a poor woman.
<v Speaker 12>She's dead just as she was trying to tell me
<v Speaker 12>something I can't understand it. Don't lose sovereigns in this hovel.
<v Speaker 12>And she she was showing you a silver sixpence as
<v Speaker 12>she died. Mister Holmes, what are you going to do?
<v Speaker 3>Bert? Check on the young girl's safety?
<v Speaker 10>Well, I should like you to collect my mother's assembly
<v Speaker 10>the other two men who were pressing the tea time
<v Speaker 10>this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrived. I
<v Speaker 10>shall belong but the police. I shall summon them as
<v Speaker 10>a king when I have the murderer to offer them,
<v Speaker 10>and I'm convinced, But that will be before the sun sets.
<v Speaker 3>Tonight, we'll hear the.
<v Speaker 2>Rest of doctor Watson's story in just a second time
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<v Speaker 2>guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played the most important part
<v Speaker 2>in the story herself.
<v Speaker 5>Home not nearly as important a part of that played
<v Speaker 5>by mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 3>Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
<v Speaker 3>at the bee.
<v Speaker 4>Fine, Well, first of all, he made short the little
<v Speaker 4>girl was safe. Now he told me of finding the
<v Speaker 4>dead woman and of his theories as to the killing.
<v Speaker 4>I can almost hear it now, mister Bartels.
<v Speaker 1>He said.
<v Speaker 10>Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
<v Speaker 10>they knew the mother would never marry while the child
<v Speaker 10>was alive.
<v Speaker 1>And that's someone persuaded the old woman to.
<v Speaker 10>Do the job for her must bend outedly, and she,
<v Speaker 10>believing in the pass of black magic, mutilate the doll,
<v Speaker 10>firmly convinced that in so doing she was destroying the
<v Speaker 10>young girl.
<v Speaker 3>Profession doctor.
<v Speaker 4>And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
<v Speaker 4>woman was a million dulging in stupid for cloy, killed her,
<v Speaker 4>realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
<v Speaker 4>her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous hindro.
<v Speaker 10>How do you suppose the account for the horde of
<v Speaker 10>money golden sovereigns don't get if we found him a hoble,
<v Speaker 10>No doubt it was the sum she.
<v Speaker 1>Has already been paid for the murder that she was
<v Speaker 1>going to commit.
<v Speaker 3>As she died, she.
<v Speaker 10>Trying to give me the clue to our murder of
<v Speaker 10>I selecting certain certain coin. Now in a posession she
<v Speaker 10>had gold, silver, and copper. She chose a silver coin.
<v Speaker 10>And yet I can't see it significance. I must confess
<v Speaker 10>at the moment passed a lot. And yet before the
<v Speaker 10>evening's over. I bet you look, you say, Watson, I said,
<v Speaker 10>before the evening's over, I bet you lect, you, old fellow,
<v Speaker 10>that's the clue.
<v Speaker 1>You bet me what on earth you're talking about? Homes,
<v Speaker 1>I'll just say, you'll.
<v Speaker 3>Just give me the answer to the whole problem.
<v Speaker 10>Watson, I'm much obliged you stay here with you will
<v Speaker 10>chap and look out Cynthia.
<v Speaker 3>A little while longer.
<v Speaker 10>Within a very short time, I shall have her intended
<v Speaker 10>destroyer under luck and key.
<v Speaker 6>Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come.
<v Speaker 5>I've had the greatest difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen
<v Speaker 5>that their presence was necessary.
<v Speaker 10>Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
<v Speaker 10>be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 10>I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
<v Speaker 10>what happened, Yes, sir, well, uh, mister, I think it's.
<v Speaker 6>Be a good idea to ney one what happened?
<v Speaker 11>Ye?
<v Speaker 3>How do you do, mister Poun?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, how do you do, mister Holmes?
<v Speaker 3>And look here? If there's some scandal now there is,
<v Speaker 3>mister Pown.
<v Speaker 1>Then I want my name kept out of it.
<v Speaker 7>You here, I have a seat on the London stoppage.
<v Speaker 3>Change that is comfortable for you.
<v Speaker 10>Yes, And the other gentleman, by the process of elimination,
<v Speaker 10>must be mister Hugh Tanna, the Nana jel of you're
<v Speaker 10>estate Missus Brown.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm Hugh Candle.
<v Speaker 7>Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
<v Speaker 7>all about, I'm as straightforward men in all this mystery
<v Speaker 7>is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerned us all.
<v Speaker 3>What is it? Murdered?
<v Speaker 1>The murder?
<v Speaker 3>Good lord, who's been murdered? An old woman who lived
<v Speaker 3>in the village.
<v Speaker 10>Your daughter, Missus Barning referred to her as the wise woman,
<v Speaker 10>mister King, and I found her to night in her
<v Speaker 10>cottage on the downs, beaten to death.
<v Speaker 3>Murdered.
<v Speaker 1>Why that's shocking.
<v Speaker 10>But what's it got to do with I'll explained mister
<v Speaker 10>carnd Each one of you, I believe would like to
<v Speaker 10>marry Missus Browning. Her daughter Cynthia is an obstacle to
<v Speaker 10>such a marriage. One of you decided to remove that
<v Speaker 10>obstacle and engage the wise woman to carry out the plan.
<v Speaker 10>Finding the woman clumsy and ineffective, you decided that she
<v Speaker 10>was a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately,
<v Speaker 10>the poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the
<v Speaker 10>crew to her murderer.
<v Speaker 1>But how did she do that?
<v Speaker 6>Mister Holmes? I thought you said that she died without speaking.
<v Speaker 10>She did, Missus Browning, But she gave me the clue
<v Speaker 10>none the less, though I was shocking the slow and
<v Speaker 10>spotting it.
<v Speaker 3>Well, what was the clue?
<v Speaker 7>Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out.
<v Speaker 3>Into the opener. You were with me, mister King, as
<v Speaker 3>she died. I shall let you tell them.
<v Speaker 1>Well. She was dying, unable to speak.
<v Speaker 9>When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her, she couldn't write,
<v Speaker 9>but she showed him a horde of copper and silver coins,
<v Speaker 9>a dozen golden sovereigns.
<v Speaker 3>Sovereigns in a hovel like that.
<v Speaker 7>Oh I see, she meant her murderer was the man
<v Speaker 7>who had paid her, and with all that ill gotten wealth,
<v Speaker 7>she died touching her silver sixpence.
<v Speaker 3>Well you is still doctor.
<v Speaker 1>See who the murderer is?
<v Speaker 10>Come along, gentlemen, you should know it as well as
<v Speaker 10>you know your own names. Now, mister King mentioned that
<v Speaker 10>there were a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest?
<v Speaker 3>Sovereign? Sovereign?
<v Speaker 1>King? You thank King were America.
<v Speaker 9>That's ridiculous. The old woman wasn't exactly a map to mind?
<v Speaker 9>Why should she be so so indirect? And how much
<v Speaker 9>is a sovereign worth a pound? And your name, my friend,
<v Speaker 9>with a seat on the London stuck exchange, is pounds?
<v Speaker 3>Yet this is absolutely absurd.
<v Speaker 1>I can prove that I've never even met the woman.
<v Speaker 6>Well what is the answer, mister Holmes, I'm sure that
<v Speaker 6>you know it.
<v Speaker 10>The answer is obvious, Missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
<v Speaker 10>say that a chance remark.
<v Speaker 3>Of Dr Watson's came to the clue. Oh no, look
<v Speaker 3>here I stopped beating about the bush.
<v Speaker 1>Holmes. What is the art?
<v Speaker 7>Very simple?
<v Speaker 10>Ones to pound with twelve golden sovereigns at hand? Sovereigns
<v Speaker 10>that would suggest either the name of king or pound.
<v Speaker 10>What coin did the dying woman select? A sixpence exactly,
<v Speaker 10>a humble silver sixpence, and what is the common slang
<v Speaker 10>word for a sixpence, a tan precisely, which tells us
<v Speaker 10>that you, mister Hugh Tanna.
<v Speaker 3>Killed the wise maidy try and coved, that's.
<v Speaker 1>All just trying al hus what happened.
<v Speaker 10>I found the mead road, Jeff, thanks to you mean
<v Speaker 10>thanks to me well, I was thinking of a sixpence,
<v Speaker 10>the coin the dead woman clutched in her hand, and
<v Speaker 10>a sixpence when he said I bet you, I thought
<v Speaker 10>of the much used expression bet youa tanner, and that
<v Speaker 10>gave me the kill of the whole business. The dying
<v Speaker 10>woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner.
<v Speaker 1>Was her murder, he confess to say before the police arrived.
<v Speaker 10>Yes, after thank King, the artist had started to give
<v Speaker 10>him something flashing he deserved.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I take no particular pride in the case Watson.
<v Speaker 10>Without your Chancellor Mark, I might easily have overlooked this
<v Speaker 10>obvious clue that the dying woman gave me. As I
<v Speaker 10>said before, Oh, Chap, I should not attempt to emerge
<v Speaker 10>from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's obvious, but
<v Speaker 10>my reflexes are shockingly slow.
<v Speaker 1>Publish. The police would never have solved.
<v Speaker 3>All My dear Watson, when you compare me.
<v Speaker 10>With the police, I realized that my retirement should be permanent.
<v Speaker 10>And by the way, where is Cynthia?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 4>I arranged with your house you preferred to heaven early supper.
<v Speaker 1>Some kippers of folks they got too a piece of
<v Speaker 1>that quick.
<v Speaker 3>Attack we had last night for a twelve year old girl.
<v Speaker 10>My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
<v Speaker 10>accuse you of being a potential murderer. Comnor homes you
<v Speaker 10>perfect should as he comes out hunt dear? Did you
<v Speaker 10>enjoy your supper?
<v Speaker 1>Was lovely?
<v Speaker 6>Here's your mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 8>Is everything all right to go home now?
<v Speaker 10>Yes, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear. Did
<v Speaker 10>you ask mister King to make that masket for you?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 8>The wise woman told me it would bring me a lot.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, I thought so.
<v Speaker 8>Mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 6>Will everything be just like before?
<v Speaker 10>No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the Wise Woman
<v Speaker 10>have gone a where you you won't see them again.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, dear, but you have you friends here, haven't you.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, and nice ones.
<v Speaker 1>Remember that, Cynthia, We'll always be your friends.
<v Speaker 6>I will doc to Watson. I like you both so much.
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
<v Speaker 3>King the Artist?
<v Speaker 6>Oh?
<v Speaker 8>Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
<v Speaker 5>He's like my daddy.
<v Speaker 10>Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
<v Speaker 10>tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
<v Speaker 10>it might change peculiarly foolish no slippers.
<v Speaker 2>Well, Dr Watson and Missus Campbell, that was a really
<v Speaker 2>different kind of story.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure glad you were here tonight.
<v Speaker 3>Missus Campbell. Tell me has Dr Watson changed much since
<v Speaker 3>you last saw it?
<v Speaker 8>Well?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, I think he's grown handsome.
<v Speaker 1>And what about Missus Campbell?
<v Speaker 3>Doctor, has she changed?
<v Speaker 1>Well, she's more grown up for the last time I saw,
<v Speaker 1>but she hasn't changed much in one respect. Who was that?
<v Speaker 6>Doctor?
<v Speaker 1>Your appetite?
<v Speaker 4>I remember our homes was amazed the mouth you whit
<v Speaker 4>when you were a child, but was certainly at justice
<v Speaker 4>hot there dinner toceive me.
<v Speaker 5>Well, that was your fault, doctor, Your dinner was too good.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, since it don't don't talk about the wine.
<v Speaker 6>Shouldn't I talk about the wine? It was wonderful, Sure
<v Speaker 6>it was.
<v Speaker 3>It was Petrie wine.
<v Speaker 2>That's why you see got him started, and missus Campbell,
<v Speaker 2>Petrie wine is always good wine. That's because the Petrie
<v Speaker 2>family has been making wine for generations, ever since long
<v Speaker 2>ago when they started the Petrie business. Wine making has
<v Speaker 2>been an arfe with the Petrie family. It's a tradition,
<v Speaker 2>a heritage that they've handed on down from father to son,
<v Speaker 2>from father to son. Believe me, when it comes to
<v Speaker 2>turning luscious sun ripe and California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine,
<v Speaker 2>well you can match your last dollar that the Petrie
<v Speaker 2>family really knows how. No matter what type wine you
<v Speaker 2>prefer for any occasion, you just can't miss with a
<v Speaker 2>Petree wine because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
<v Speaker 2>doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes's adventure? Are you planning
<v Speaker 2>to tell us next week?
<v Speaker 4>Well, as nixt we got Saint Patrick's days about six
<v Speaker 4>days a way, mister Bartella, I thought next week, did
<v Speaker 4>I tell you a rather unusual story that took place
<v Speaker 4>at Ireland at the turn of the Century concerns the
<v Speaker 4>famous ceremony of Kissing Brown Tone, Saint Patrick's Night revel,
<v Speaker 4>and an old Irish ballad that fled directly to one
<v Speaker 4>of the most devilish murders that Chilock Holmes and I
<v Speaker 4>ever encountered, The Knight.
<v Speaker 2>Sherlock Holm's Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony
<v Speaker 2>Boucher and was suggested by an incident in the Arthur
<v Speaker 2>Conan Doyle story.
<v Speaker 3>The Adventure of the Copper Beaches.
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<v Speaker 2>Holms series. You can read about the stars of our
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