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Good evening, Doctor.

Good evening, mister bout draw up your usual chair.

I'll get on with the night.

Cut your luck.

Holme's adventure.

Well, how did the story begin?

Doctor?

One day in the autumn of eight hundred and eighty seven, I remember Holmes and I were seated on either side of the far in our Baker Street lodgings.

The great man, his eyes half closed, his long.

Thin fingers fusticular, lay back to his chair, filling the room with large blue clouds at tobacco smoke, and discussing on one of his favorite subjects.

Professon Mariarkist.

I can almost hear him now, mister.

Buttell as he said, Crime Watson, if he organized it up half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great metropolis.

Who surely that's an exaggeration.

There's a brain of the first order, and his agents are humorous and splendidly organized.

He himself sits most in this like a spider in the center of his web.

But that web there's a thousand radiations, and then as every quiver of each one of them.

And it's fortunate for me that there's only one Mariati.

If every criminal were equally as Jude, I've been bank sayin the air, I don't.

Think you need to worry about bankruptcy homes.

As I came in just no fixt these letters up from the whole table and sympiment of a pocket.

It didn't look like bills to me.

I observe the trist of the Duke of Carlyle on the top end of the.

Five hundred is the grace of extremely generousness evaluation of my services.

I don't agree, after all, you did save him from a.

Shocking several Oh listen to this, Watson.

I seen you yesterday when you come to that cricket match.

You wasn't watching the cricket.

If you value your life, keep your thoughty long nose to yourself.

And it's time to show the butcher.

Show the butcher from.

Out a criminal that I was instrumental in sending to prison for a short term, that is himself, though I was watching the cricket the idea that Joe was backing Pactice again and just keep an eye on him.

We let her on Carton Hostel station room all I said, this is interesting, very interesting.

Oh hell, yet us to home.

It's been informed that you are anount of ability and discretion.

My life is in grave danger and I need your help.

Upon receipt of this letter, come to my hotel at once.

I should be expecting you, and it's timed Francois du Luck rather.

Person, No, please, just come from my hotel once.

Who is this?

Do Luck anywhere?

What's not clon?

We were talking of Mariatti just now.

I have a feeling that this letter may lead this to him.

What makes you say that?

Fast?

Why you like?

The writer of this letter is recognized in France as the one indisputable authority on the beatings of Jean Baptiste gurz Well.

I still don't see the connection with Mariatti.

If there is one thing Mariatti loves more than the dazzling abstractions of mathematics and even more dazzling achievements of crime, it is the paintings of girls.

The justic combination of intense danger and the gurs experts fellows Mariati to me, can get your hat and coat off, Alaun, we're after the carcut jet to see mister lack at once.

From all right, but no answer.

I'm not again?

Am I going to unlock with no?

No, don't attract attention to prospective fan.

Tell lockroom, do very hard to pick him here the skeleton key should do the trick.

Quaysly.

No, the man prodest un stairs said that mister Luck was in his room.

You know, Watson, he said he thought he was in his room.

Uh huh, he's the other I anticipated.

Come on, let's go in.

It doesn't look as if anyone's occupied his room.

No signs of any personal belonging those hanging in the wardrobe.

Nodge, Yet he is still registered here.

Hello, what's this stain on the carpet that'll bed here, great scot, it's a bloodstain, watching bloodstain.

The stain is still damp.

I'm afraid we're too late.

Come on, do no more good here.

You're not giving up home, no what cost?

Not a dead hellow, Let's see what we can find out from Mitel manager, and refuse to believe that in the nineteenth century, a distinguished foreigner can vanish into thin air.

Yes, Monsieur de Luc did have a visitor early on today, mister Holmes, you remember his name?

I think it was Perkins or Parsons that I'm not sure.

Can you describe his appearance?

I think so, mister Holmes.

He was a very tall gentleman, tall and thin, with deep sunk eyes Jean shaven.

Oh, yes, sir.

He had a high forehead and a funny way of moving his head from side to side, Joharms.

That's almost an exact description.

Of my at exactly.

Watson, have you seen Monsieur de Lax since this mister Perkins or Parsons called on him.

No, I haven't, sir.

But his visitor came back only an hour ago.

He had some men with him.

They carried some mode packages out of the hotel, packages, but not luggage, eh, no packages.

Mister Holmes, has Monsieur de Lac received any other visitor since he arrived here?

None that had been here to see him, sir.

But I understand that Sir Henry Davenant has been most anxious to get in touch with him.

Sir Henry Damon, thank you I'm extremely obliged to you.

Come on, Watson, always proud to be of service to mister.

The plot begins here, Watson, what makes you say that Henry Davenant is a millionaire whose art collections world famous.

Here you go.

The papers were full of his latest acquisition, the gem of his collection, Jean Baptiste Spurs painting Young Girl with the Gazelle.

And now it would appear that, for some reason, Whyriarte wishes to prevent a meeting between Sa Harry Davenant Monsieur du Lac, a Gros expert.

How do you see why?

The pot begins to clear?

They exam what are you going to do?

Governin said to is not a permit.

I won't have anything to do with officials, interviewers and people like that.

But we know that he wishes to consult an expert on the paintings of duptis furs.

The next move of the obvious, how.

Christ is me?

You means that you'll impersonate one.

Certainly, if it gurs expert is what he wants, then it grows expert is what he's going to get.

I must say, your disguises is amazingly affect you.

Miss you you need the great honor.

If I appear convincing to the abstrute Dr Watson, how can I fail to convince Sir Henry de Broning the good Chevaza Sir Henry's house, that's her for the best of Colon.

I don't know if you are a French art expert.

Looks like that I could believe that you are.

I only hope that I can keep qually convincing in the role of a patron.

Of the art.

You certainly look apolo jack the afternoon, and I hope you My name is Verney Andre Berney and most anxious to make the thing from of Sir Henry Darron.

I'm afraid that Sir Henry is extremely difficult to see her.

I can tell him your ear, but he very rarely gives interviews.

That is a great disappointment to me.

Perhaps you would just go and tell him a pupil and the discipling or the great foncois du la what I can sir, They're coming, won't you?

Gentlemen?

If you're waiting here for a moment, I'll take your literature.

But what was the name of Andrew Berne?

And this gentleman is mister Watson.

Very good, sir, Well we got into the house.

Now let's hope that you can impress the master as easy a task out here or I've had the natural opinions on the paintings of girls with an expert My knowledge of the subject is someone's sketchy.

On My mine is absoluting milk girls.

Was a naturalistic painter who punished at the close of the eighteenth century, and his paintings command a fabulous fee in this day and age.

He himself died in great poverty.

Someone's, mister Berne, will you and mister Watson come with me to Henry's most anxious.

To let sinamoiselle.

My name is Vallet Jeffson.

I look after Sir Henry's art, indeed a very pleasurable job.

I'm sure, my dear, from what I hear, he has a magnificent gallery.

He has one the finest in the world.

His latest acquisition is the famous young girl with the bizil like words Hoe.

But I'm sure you know all about that, Monsieur Verne.

I think you're getting your message.

You were a student of the great to last.

I have that inestimably privilege.

Not there is studdy.

Oh well, thank you about it.

You may go.

You're the Vernie, I'm sure, and this is mister Watson.

Has tried to her name, Sir Verne is staying with me.

I see, well, sit down, won't you look?

Vernie?

Now you're a friend of la son't you?

I think that explained that on earth, miss Wyander.

Can't I get in touch with him?

He's staying at the Carlton Hotel, isn't he?

He was or has been staying there as year me.

I've left half a dozen messages.

Boy, I'm asking him to come and see me, and he hasn't answered one of them.

I can't understand it.

It's most important that idea, Monsieur is in some problem.

Perhaps perhaps now I think fellows are from dear with the painting by girls, the young lady with the gazelle.

Aren't you?

Oh yes, Henry, Yes, indeed you are?

Or did you come it?

Monsieur?

Of course I have only seen every production, but it seemed to me to have a queshioned something of the questing say right, certainly some brilliance of line.

You are indeed the fortunate to ornate, Monsieur, don't know how fortunate cost me forty pounds.

I still say you are most fortunate, monsieur.

Would you get me the honor of to examine the regimen?

Well, I don't know whether I ought to.

I've had guarded very curtly ever since this.

Well, but perhaps in your case I can make an exception.

You will see thanks regarding the painting for Henry.

Yes, I have mister Watson, and they worried me so much that I've even thought of engaging the services of a private detective.

Are very incurious, so the Duke of Carlyle strongly recommended a fellow by the name of Sherlock Holmes, so I was seriously thinking of going to him stake a witch.

He has come to you, sir Henry, and an actor will save us all a lot of time.

I'm sure what kind of horseplay is this?

Who's the devil eyes?

My name is Slack Cohn.

So why do you come here, Masquery as a French artist?

Because I'd heard of your aversion to giving interviews and I wanted to see you urgently.

I thought that in the character of the supposed GIRs expert, I was most likely again immediate admission.

Well, then, your friend here, doctor Watson, my colleague.

Well, it's all turned out for the best.

To Henry, you wanted to consult mister Holmes, and Steve was most anxious to see you.

Yeah, it is.

Well, I'm glad you fellows are here.

You see, I'm devilish worried about that guirs of mine old wife.

Sir Henry, Well, I thought it an auction.

There was another man bidding against me all the time, and when he was finally not down in my name, he became most insulting.

He seemed unable to bear not owning the picture himself.

He told me bluntly that I couldn't enjoy it long.

I didn't think much about it at the time, but lately I've been receiving postcards repeating the threats.

I don't like it, that's a fact.

Well you've kept those postcards.

I hope to her through them in the power where they belong.

Oh.

Can you recall the name of this sir did at the auction who threatened you?

No, I didn't know his name.

Can you describe his appearance?

Well, let me see.

He was the fall being shaven, a curious havoc of moving his head from side to side again.

Yes, yet my supposition was correct, and johnly, Sir Henry, is the paintings safely guarded?

Quo I'd say that it was impregnable homes.

It's not in my regular galleries.

I have a special strong room built point when I started to receive his threats.

It has a lot which only I know the combination, and a special chocklate device that so controls the room that even I can only enter it there during certain daytime on.

And yet, Sir Henry, with such thorough precautions, you appear to be frightened.

Why I hardly dare trust my own shadow homes.

But as you possibly know, one of Gerz's pupils, a certain Madame Ladoux, imitated his paintings most successfully several of the experts.

I confess that I've been frightened lately since I've received the threat that a clever man might try and substitute a fake painting for the original, if indeed he hasn't already done so.

That's why I was so anxious to get in touch with your lot.

He'd no a fraud at once in a substitution would be impossible if you're the only one that knows it.

The combination to the luck of the strong room.

Well, that's what my logic tells me, you, doctor, Yet I'm very uneasy.

I'm not confessed.

It's still there, I saying her, would be possible for us to examine the painting.

Now.

Certainly, by the way, what happened to Muscade de la did he leave the cotton hotel?

He did so, circumstances at departure made uneasy.

In that way, his rooms empty for those signs of luggage.

And yet, but then.

That's ballot.

What is it?

I asked, who left the bolt?

Them?

Give his name, Sir, Henry, that he was a tall, thin man.

Deep SiZ what's the note?

Say?

It's the same pillow again.

Listen to this.

I told you you wouldn't enjoy the painting for long?

You didn't.

Did you cut its money off?

I don't say anything funny about this.

What makes you laugh?

It obvious that my painting is being stolen.

I find nothing funny about it, either, said Henry.

But I must admit a certain pleasure.

Once again, I'm crossing swords with an adversary.

It was more than worthy of my steel.

You'll hear the rest of doctor watch this story in just a second.

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Well, doctor passing, you kept me on the edge of my chair so far with your story.

What happened next?

Did Sir Henry Davin and take.

You to see as famous he did mister Burton.

Together with Miss Varlet Jackson, we descended Countess Bite the stairs.

Doors open where no one expected a daughter exist fatally.

After walking down a narrow stone checkace that turned and pisted, we came up against a blank wall.

It seems that we could go no further at the time clock, a combination of numbers and a hidden door stood back and stood in the interior of a small room, a room with no windows, hardly any light.

Loyal pink Bean stood on an easel before us was of a girls painting, The Young Girl with the Gazelle.

We stood looking at it for a brief moment, and then.

Painting history.

Say, sir Henry, if it still is the same painting?

It looks the same, mister Home to me, but that remains.

That only flast what you like to tell us if it is the same or a brilliant copy.

Yes, you like to be silent, so it would seem, of course, we must be experts of the British Museum the past judgment, dear, but how could it have been stolen?

It'd be impossible to smigle it out if he Henry place it with a copy.

There's any one where being absolutely certain, if your permission, say Henry, I should like to make a test.

You're going to take a stamp of the paint, mister Home.

Yes, that should get a settin proof.

Well, very well, yeah, you'd better do it by letter, but be careful, remember the painting costs mends.

My new fragment of paint would be sufficient to test it with my fingernails, Henry, I'll set you a tiny samples, but the work, say you, amster home, is that enough?

Trender re thank you?

He's put it on this envelope for me.

Real that's it.

And after Henry, I shall return to take step and analyze this paint.

But then an hour and I should be able to tell you whether the painting is worth forty thousand pounds or a plug Fothy.

Well, well, Holmes, did you what make the chest?

I did, say, Henry, I'm afraid there's no doubt the job painting for a couple of paint by examin there was a manufactured not more than twenty five years ago, and Grows died in eighteen hundred and five.

Well, I still say that if the fine painting, whoever did it?

I agreed doctor Watson.

In fact, I'll be glad to buy it.

It's a brilliant copy, and more than likely it was done by me to do You're remarkably clacy, Henry.

Forty thousand pounds.

Forty thous non an answer.

Put that Knight down.

Homes have to grab him.

I don't want to juppen.

I'm six dings a fair if that's what you're thinking.

Now, why are you grasping that knight, sir?

Because i have work to do in my strong room.

I'm going to use this night to slash that lying campint of forty thousand pieces as well.

I suppose you're right, biologist.

This childish to mutilate this door.

But it's really brought to Henry.

I'd like to have it.

I'll buy it from you, gladly buy it from me.

You can have it, go and make arrangements that the wretched things taken away at once.

I don't wonder any frauds in my collection.

Yes, Henry, and thank you now, mister lock Homes.

I'll pay you any you name if you can tell me how the original painting was stolen.

Well, say, Henry, the hole must here precede the who and how I must confess seems impossible.

I agree.

This is the sealed metal room.

The only entrances to the door that has a combination that only you knows.

That true.

It's impossible for anyone twitter this room without my being present, or I would have sworn it was exam of these walls.

But uh huh.

Then to lay that oh method of infants here, Well, you'll find no flaws.

I'm sure.

This room is built like a giant stick, and the time lock on the door is equally solid.

The time lock now, yes, it started five minutes ago when we opened the door, but don't worry, it's seven is shake with the door opened, and when the.

Doors closed it couldn't be reopened again.

I take it to her, not until the morning, doctor No.

I had the lock specially design very ingenious.

This presents us pretty a problem as ever I've tackled, sir, Henry.

A large painting stolen and a fake one substituted, and a seal room to which only you have access.

Must confess the howe seems utterly impossible.

To remember what you always say, not the impossible, and whatever remains, no matter how impalpable, must be the possible.

Let's consider the who for a moment is your butler?

Absolutely reliable?

Absolutely how about this?

Jackson?

Completely trustworthy, brought letters of recommendation from most of the leading art galleries in London, Intelliton too and serious mindy.

He's made a deep setting of mathematics as well as her knowledge of painting mathematics.

How do you know that's Henry.

She'd had a book with her the other day.

I'm surprised that the title could have been a novel, but no, it was called The Dynamics of an Asteroid that was in striped to her by the art and not Acce Asteroid, and inscribed to her the author.

Thank Heavens your memories, Henry.

That book was written by Professor Mariatti led Jackson must be anccomplished his hell.

It hit the door stand the hut, Yes, and it's not very hard to guess who that one is.

I can't need that.

There's a note being pushed under the door strike a.

Match for the over.

How to stay home?

I give my lady like eavesdropping like with mister Sherlock Holmes, as near the truth as he is.

I'm afraid it would be unwise for me to remain here any longer.

On the other hand, you are in no danger of smothering in the strong rum, but imprisonment to delay my pursuits all morning.

The Jackson she's escaped as homes down Boddy Watson Jackson failure to procure the painting for Mariatti will land her in a far worse dilemma than anything we it's subjected to.

Mariatti has never tolerated failure on the part of his minion.

A brilliant pot, a brilliant plot, an the artist of the seniors of his powers.

How fortunate that we were able to foil him?

For you mean foil him?

My pinking's being stolen.

Oh no, no, no, no, it's a it's here in this room.

What on earth are you talking about?

Home?

Do you reminded me of my own dictim Watson?

I discarded the impossible.

It was impossible that the picture had been stolen, Therefore it had not been stolen.

You mean that this painting is the original greatleisteness of cour sir?

Surely the whole plot is crystal clear now, just about as clear as porridge to me.

Well, then let the explained.

The whole episode of France White du Lac promote to be the em to hotel room, and the significant blood stains and the apparent disappearance of du Lac were all part of Mariarti's plot.

The real newc never left Frans Mariarty created him in England to lure me into the case.

Why and thunders should he want to do that?

Home?

Yes, I should think you're the last person he wanted on the scene on the Country's He knew that I grab at his bait.

The apparent murder accurs experts who would make it seem likely that you are painting a substitute, Sir Henry, he wanted me to test beating, which I did.

I fell into his trap.

Very Ney Cliff, the paint homes.

You said that it was no more than twenty years old.

Yes, my dear fellow, the answer should be obvious.

I see it.

Violet was his accomplass, had prepared the painting beforehand and carefully spits off a piece of mutton paint exactly Ken Mary Art, he had assumed quite correctly.

But as soon as you thought your painting was approad, you'd want.

To get rid of the pan.

That girl was going to take it out of this house with your full approval, and of course tell.

It over to my arky.

What a fantastic schame, a devilish clever one old chap There hadn't been the other chance remark about the book on mathetics, Say Henry, I'm very much afraid the young lady with the gazelle might even now be on our way out of your house.

Songs.

I can't tell you how grateful I am.

I'm going to express that gratitude in a very material manner.

I all show you, thank you, Sir Henry.

But I wouldn't dream of accepting a fee for this case.

I have been shockingly at cuse I might busily have left them walk away with your pleasure, might have run noses.

We locked in here night, and I'm very.

Much afraid so, Dr Watson.

I shouldn't be surprised if the button notices our disappearance and comes looking for us.

But I won't be able to open the door.

It'll need a professional lucksmith to get us out of here.

Look as if we spend a.

Don't be gloomy, my dear fellow.

You're locked him with one of the loveliest girls in history, and she's genuine at dead.

It's like another that joe Ja.

Let's let's look at it once again.

Well, doctor, that was not only a swell story, but I really learned something.

Oh good, good, good, mister Battle And just what did you learn?

Well?

This fellow, girls, the painter you do I know of This must sound stupid deal, but until you mentioned his name, i'd never heard him before.

His name to me, I've never heard him further, and then we never learned about the good things in this world unless somebody.

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Tonight.

Sherlock Holmes Adventure was written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher, and was suggested by an incident in Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Final Problem.

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