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The Inventors of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories of Sarasick holand Doyle Glommatized Daniel, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the role of Sherlock Holme.
And now The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Sir John Gielgod and Sherlock Holmes and Sir Ralph Richardson as our storyteller, Doctor James Watson.
My name was Watson, Doctor John H.
Speaker 2Watton.
It may be familiar to you.
Speaker 1Through my association over Middlewears.
It's one of the most remarkable men I believe the world has ever known, mister Sherlock Holmes.
I wanted to tell you about one of our earliest adventists.
Speaker 2The first time when we went out.
Speaker 1Into the Speech of London in active partnership, it was still a Youngish man.
It was far back in the early eighteen eighties.
We'd chaired those famous roomens number two hundred and twenty one b Baker Street.
Speaker 2For yes you.
Speaker 1Mom, Watson, my dear fellow, you're just in time, in time for what homes well you've so I can be good enough to express a genial interest in my singular profession.
Now you'll be able to see me actually at work.
Oh, I'm lightly homes It should have been fascinating.
Ah, but I must sit down by the fire de.
Speaker 2Chilly out, or do do my dear fellows?
Oh, by the way, Watson, White Turkish?
Turkish?
Speaker 1How do you mean the bar?
The bars you've just come from, my dear fellow.
Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than invigorating a homemade article across the passage here?
Because I tells lazy and but I haven't said a word about it.
How the deuce did you know i'd had a Turkish bar?
Your boots boots, I think quite an elementary as surely no doubt.
But you'll forgive me if i'd be able to see the least connection.
You always do your boots out in the same way, Watson, however, on this occasion might even pass them with an elaborate double bow.
And so of course you've had them all from someone else who's tied them for you, for example, The answer can only be your bootmaker or the boy to take his bars, as your boots will only maidens live here late last week it's hardly likely to have been the bootmaker.
So what's the names?
But the barbs sadly simple.
Speaker 2Ha ha, pa, my soul, you don't really are.
Speaker 1A strange Wait till you meet Milverton.
He's stranger still Milverton.
Who's Milverton, Tarles Augustus Milverton at Hampstead in all probability the most evil man in London.
He sounds fascinating.
I invited in the six thirty so he's almost you.
Speaker 2I should have the thought of him.
But what's he do for a living?
This strange quarrel of ours?
Speaker 1Blackmail Watson high here he looks like mister Pickwick that heaven helped the man, or worse still, the woman who's in discreet enough to get into his power?
Speaker 2And what have you to do with him?
Speaker 1Well?
Speaker 2I've had the honor recently to.
Speaker 1Be consulted by a particularly illustrious lady.
Speaker 2Gracious do I know her?
Speaker 1I expect to know her name, Lady Eva Brackwell, the most beautiful gab.
Speaker 2Retunted last season.
But of course isn't she to be married in a fortnight to the Earl of Dover Court.
Yes, it's all arranged.
Speaker 1I'm lucky for her Milverton has marriaged to get hold of some imprudent letters Waston, which she wrote some time ago to a penny this young fellow in the country.
Only in prudent, mind you, but they'd be quite sufficient to break off the net.
Speaker 2And you're commissioner to meet him?
Yes, and make what terms?
I can?
I think you hear Watson?
Well let him in the who Well he'll come in.
Did this is mister Holmes?
I take it you are Charles Augustus moment?
How are you, mister Holmes?
Speaker 1No, I prefer not to shake hands with you, mister Milburdoon.
This is only a matter of business between us, I see, and we can talk of it.
Speaker 2Be Paul.
This gentleman needs to rather a delicate affair.
Dr Watson is my.
Speaker 1Friend and partner, sair.
He knows our business well well, we need hard waste much time on it.
Speaker 2My position is quite different.
You are acting from the lady Eva.
I understand I have that, honor.
What are your terms, mister Mildertne seven thousand pounds mister Holmes and the alternative.
Oh, my dear sir, it is painful to discuss it.
Speaker 1But if the money is not paid by the fourteenth, there would certainly be no marriage on the eighteen and suposing I advise my clan to tell her future husband all about these letters you hold.
You haven't do not know the Earl, mister Holmes, nor me.
I'm practice at this game, sir.
Look at the spotty book.
I have eight or ten similar cases, all maturing.
Speaker 2It is how I make my humble breath.
Who scramble hows you like, sir?
Speaker 1But that are detailed here that would surprise you for all your so called knowledge of affairs.
You may remember the sudden end of the encouragement between the Honorable Missus Miles and Colonel Doff and only a bit caught.
You've said some of twelve hundred pounds could not be found in time.
Seven thousand is ridiculous, Lilburton out of the question here, and I think nuts.
There was also the case of our well no more name pham welch, what's can.
Speaker 2Get the hanging?
Tell a lit it out now now, sir, that notebo you'll please to fall homes Stand back you think I go by the business like my alarms, Stand back, I say, don't do doctor, what nobody your name is?
Speaker 1Put your hand homed out what I expected, something much more original, mister Holmes, I really did from you.
Speaker 2Do you think I'm a fool as to carry the letter?
The bounce of it?
Speaker 1You only make me more determined than ever.
One more word and I'll make it eight thousand and.
Speaker 2The thirteen instead of the forties or night, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1It was one of my earliest glimpses of the kind of thing confrontingess in what homes has been good enough to call our partnership?
Speaker 2What you would do next?
Had no idea?
I was hardly prepared a few nights later.
Speaker 1And on a particularly restorey using the appearance in our chambers of a tall, wreakish looking young workman with a goaty beard.
Speaker 2Oh good, easing goodness, how are yes?
How am I?
Now?
Look here?
My good man?
What you think you're doing?
Walking any here?
These are private apartment I happen to live here.
Wats it dosence?
Speaker 3Oh?
Speaker 1Yes?
I think I forgot to warn you around my little Tomshaws for disguise is what to just run?
Speaker 2Among my many other accomplishments.
Do what are appalling?
Night outside is coming down in sheep?
But what on earth have you been doing getting much.
Speaker 1I've engaged to be married, to be married my DearS, So I I congratulate sure office of the hushmaid a Charles Augustus Wilberson was I had to Watson, I wanted information.
Speaker 2Oh that was going too far, not at all in my present.
Speaker 1Alias, I'm a rising young plumber named Escott.
I've walked and talk to that girl every evening for nearly a week.
The charming little post they were too, And now I know Milverson's husband, Hanst is like the palm of my hands in the basement of the attics.
Yes, yeah, the home the poor girl early really can't be helped, Watson.
He has to become a sacrifice on the altar of my art.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Fortunately, I find I have a hated rival in the shape of the local grocery assistant.
He sure to cut me out at the moment my back.
Speaker 2Look out of the window.
Speaker 1Watson, Oh, what a splendid night learning complaining about it development a girl as an honest citizen, as a burglar, I approved of it as a as a burglary.
Is I proposed to burgle Milburton's house Before the night is over, Boston.
Speaker 2It's the only way.
Speaker 1I just want a few minutes to change my clothes and get rid of this ticklish bird, and then I shall be leaving you to the evening, to your peaceful solitude.
Tell home, I'm coming with you.
No, yeah, what I said that with a partner, and that I should do something to shake off my indo.
Well, we've been sharing these same rooms for some months now.
Speaker 2It'll be a new thing if you should finish up sharing the same self.
Speaker 1You really mean it was to you that death where you are listed lightful fellow, Well do you think you could contide to make us up a couple of masks mass mass in five minutes from black silk.
I have an old umbrella somewhere excellent.
Speaker 2Then that will be your contribution for my part.
I should be delighted to teach you how to use it.
Speaker 1Jimmy and the glass cutter, and this set of adaptable key of wonderful specimens here in two hours time.
Watsons he should be a little bit to study where he keeps his face.
It adjoins his bedroom.
Unfortunately, but I think he's pretty sure to be sound asleep.
My little fiancee tells me he always looks at the log is a divide in what.
Speaker 2Is a bug in home?
Well, here we are.
You see what that deal it wants.
But in two hours he makes a capital tale of burdles.
Speaker 4He would die always dedicated, no purpose.
Speaker 2I don't like it.
Speaker 4Homes it will too little trouble.
You mean because the door hast he wasn't eating, locked the holes and overside jolk there's a knight under the bedroom door.
He often falls asleep at the bedroom and that's still burning.
I don't have to mind Beyonce too.
Now they want them to work.
Speaker 2Well, what do you want me to do?
Time the will o the door?
There?
I'm giving a warning if we had any one time, he's fly.
Speaker 3If they come right in, you still have time to hide behind the window curtain's side.
I'll begin on the safe by flight No, then skeleton keys.
Uh oh, this fellow the fouri very ordered that a much more modern face of this.
Speaker 2Fund nerve than the series.
If I could only now it owns home?
What did it got from?
Confided?
Speaker 1I've almost got it open.
Someone coming along the corridor.
Two people are use taking for a moment to chow too bad quick behind the curtain.
You can't have been in bed, after all, have to be waiting in the hall for.
Speaker 4Some wats Some of you are right, definitely so baba t kid.
Speaker 2I can just see who.
Speaker 3No one's coming upstairs getting and all left.
Speaker 4Ah, it's all right, there's a woman with him fail.
They're coming in.
Speaker 2Where you decided to come in half an hour late.
I couldn't done me earlier.
No mischiefs cut me.
Speaker 1Well, if it's a hard miss, you had a chance to get even with her.
You tell me in your life that you've managed to get hold of some letters which compromised their conscious.
Speaker 2Galbert, Oh yes, uh huh.
You want to sell them and I want to buy them so so good.
I can use them in my business now else to price the price, mister Nolverton, for everything is your life?
What you mean?
Girl?
Look at me?
Speaker 4It's lifting a fail homes.
Speaker 2That's no lady's made great sermons, is it you?
Yes, I Charles Nolverton.
I'm don't to dare to speak my name.
You foul it enough.
You ruined me the way you ruined so many others.
You should have found the money.
Speaker 1In tire and because I couldn't, because I begged you for two days A great he sent those letters you had.
Speaker 2To my husband, and he died, and you know how he died, not the finest man in the world.
And the letters were four you changed the dates from them.
They were written before I met him.
That from me, No, not till I use it.
Speaker 1You'll break no my heart?
Speaker 2Chide me Aton, who's broken mine?
To hound?
Oh?
Say hound?
Great?
Hasn't hold wild Man?
He's done for because she's got away.
Thanks?
Who was that woman?
You know that face?
Not that that's it.
Speaker 1I've never never meant name, No re quick what you're doing that faith?
What's the papers of the faith to save our own class?
Who knows how many more?
Speaker 2Besides?
Quick?
Put that?
Speaker 1Bundle your horse wats and get and give this to me.
Hurry, have someone ust to hurt the shop.
Listen that people coming after the window quickly?
What serial escaped down a convenient drain pipe, over two garden walls and rock They've found an empty handsom at the bottom of the road and reached baker'step at last and safety.
Our day shore was over, almost over.
Speaker 2And I lay tossing steeplessly in bed that night.
Speaker 1I've found myself more than ever intrigued by the personality of my strange companions, as recollected our first speaking only a few months before, I'd just come back from medical service abroad and was moping miserably about this old London of ours, of handsome cabs and fog and gas, like doing something nothing at Paul and then standing has a piccadly lit.
Speaker 2Bar one day there was of it, Remember me?
But why yes, tamper, young temper used to the addressed Undy.
You you were a medical student of darts, remember, of course, I remembered.
Speaker 1Confound is the pleasure to see a friendly face tampered Londons are very useful a lonely man, or what else if you'd been doing with yourself?
Speaker 2Wat them that as a larger dollars than that Afghanistan, you know, the campaign out their army servants.
I say, I have a drink for your thanks.
Speaker 1If I'm the start, I think I got wounded pretty badly at my one countroduced sub Savian artery tub glasses.
Speaker 2Is fute it up?
Eh?
And just what are you doing with yourself now?
Nothing?
Nothing?
Speaker 1Trying to solve the problem with finding comfortable rooms on my army pencil E eleven and six A day to have.
He says, your health campon your what there's the all time strange to say that, you know, say what I was looking for rooms.
Speaker 2You're the second man to day who said it to me?
And who was the first?
Speaker 1Oh, Sun fellow was working in the chemical lad up at the hospital.
A fellow called home.
You wouldn't like to go Halves, I suppose exactly what he was saying, looking to I want to share with him?
Speaker 2And with an hand, then what's his other names?
Sharing?
But it is no, no, no, no, Sharlof.
You're to sthing queer Sharlock's host.
What does he do with you?
Said?
Speaker 1I know he's got a whole store and out of the way, not in to put astonished the professor, and he's the first class chemist they did day him.
But I've been quite special, I say, Watson, huh, it's go along the way.
I have a meeting.
He's started it there.
Let's have lunch somewhere and then go on.
Tell me exel, I hope it comes to hunting.
I must can say to thou five years a sea wats them, this is mister Sherlock's home.
Are you doctor from Afghanistan?
Speaker 2I perceived, But how on earth did you over?
Speaker 1Never mind homes, I wanted you to beleeve because Watson's on the look after someone to share diggings with him.
Speaker 2Oh, the favors who are ethical, doctor, you look a very man for me.
Speaker 1I've had my eye on the street in Baker's seat number two hundred and twenty one B.
And missus Hudson is the land lady's name.
You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco.
I hope I always spoke ships myself.
Speaker 2That's good enough.
Speaker 1And oh when I generally have a few chemicals about in cardiot experiments like this one, that wouldn't annoy you by no need?
Speaker 2We then let me see one of my other shortcomings.
Speaker 1Oh, I get down in the dumps sometimes and don't open my mouth for days on end.
And or I've offensive to a revolver practice in bow.
So long as I can rely on your aim intellible, I assure you.
Speaker 2Now, what have you to concept?
See?
Well, I get up at all.
Speaker 1Fours about godly ours, and I'm very lazy.
I don't like two months raw, but but oh but I put up with the revolvers afterward.
I've got another set of advices when I'm well, but these are the principal ones for the president.
Speaker 2That's all right, thanky cute stamp, But I'm very much oblige Field.
Speaker 1Well, should we go together, Dr Watson, and look at the rooms tomorrow, say, at noon, at noon home?
It will suit admirably.
Oh one other little things, the violin.
You don't include violin playing in your category of rows.
It depends on the player my home if it's badly playing.
But that's something I should have to leave you to judge yourself, my dear fellow, and I should pleasure in testing your ear with a few of my own little compositions.
Then you will be able to judge my modest capability.
Speaker 2Till tomorrow, then, my dear doctor Watson.
Speaker 1So it took those womens together and settled down quite amicably.
As the week went by, my interest in my companion intensified.
Speaker 2I studied his sharp piercing eyes, his skill work like face.
Speaker 1And I wondered time and again what he's did sudden giving.
So it's to pay share of our humble reckoning.
He was out at all thoughts of strange hours, and when he was at home, curious visitors were always calling on him.
And they think he would ask if he might have our sitting room for himself.
With a sting endow, dark eyed fellow caused less trade for the distance.
He came three or four nights in one week.
Once a fashionably dressed young girl waited on him.
At another time it was a well reporter in his velveteen uniforms.
The city puzzled reason, and still at.
Speaker 2Last one day.
Ah, you wonder what I do for a living.
Speaker 1Watch today I've seen you looking quizically one for price, at least, visiting plans of mine.
Speaker 2Fad.
Speaker 1Or just properly over the person slipper, will you might dear fellow, I.
Speaker 2Always keep at the doctor in it.
Thank you.
Speaker 1The fact is I'm a professional thinker, doctor.
I think certainly I peak things together.
You see, just as a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara from a single jot of water without having seen or heard.
Speaker 2Of either of them.
Speaker 1So I build rare editative and deductions from the observation of issues.
Speaker 2Simple sess, Oh, come, it's the truth.
I will show you.
If you're looking around for a cigar, by the way.
Speaker 1I might just said, you'll find them in a coast couple.
Yes, yes, I have a played all my own Watsons, the only one in the whole world.
Speaker 2I'm a consulting detective.
Speaker 1Oh that London full of detectives, lots of government ones and plenty of private ones, but none like me.
I built up quite a special little connection, wasn't And when any of these other fellows that are lost, they generally come to me to put them right.
Speaker 2Just by thinking about things.
Speaker 1I suppose exactly I have a term for observation and deductions.
As Hu must admit that first time we met, for instance, when I mentioned, to your surprise that you just come from Afghanistan.
You are told about it, no doubt, nothing of the soft I just knew.
Why take a nature to me my train of fortram something like this.
Here a fellow who's a doctor, but the air of a military man is clearly an army surgery man just come from the topics.
But his face is dark, but that isn't his natural color, to his risks of fair his army is stiff wounded.
Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have been wounded lately?
And the obvious answer is in the Afghan campaign, probably the battle of my wife.
Speaker 2Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1It's simple enough, and you'll explain it.
I can says I was taken aback a bit of a side.
And do you mean to say that you apply these principles to the detection of five?
Speaker 2Of course I do.
That fellow is trade you will ask me about the other day.
For instance.
Speaker 1He's a Scotland yard man, one of the best.
But he got him set into a fog over a forgery case recently and came to me to ask.
Speaker 2My advice on the evidence you had.
I sold it for him on the spot.
Up to my life.
You astonished me at home.
I have no idea that that was what you were up to.
What gave you the notion?
Speaker 1All natural talent, I suppose when I was still college.
This morning happened to become my way, which enabled me to solve a curious crime.
Speaker 2I decided it.
But I did take to such methods, and so here I am now a professional investigator.
That's the kind of thing ideal with in this life of mine.
Watson, That and of course my music.
Speaker 1Well, I never thought that you were a professional investigator of crime, even when you talked about it so much as the hospital that time we next well, when really must do something to keep myself from border, you may find yourself mixed up in it.
While at these fine days you know you never know what's he is, never know And I was, of course you know that now with the must and exploit.
As I've related it, so the first well adventure of them all in which I felt myself truly involved.
Speaker 2It English rather.
Speaker 1Ugly at Burglary episode of ours the very morning after it, after my sleepless night that came even the little man I've so often seen before, let's say, the good less Trade of Scotland Yards, Good morning, my dear lestrade, Good morning, it said.
Only I was wondering, was doctor Watson, by the way, he was asking all about you the other day?
Speaker 2How you got there?
Any friend of mister Holmes is a friend of mine, the latter to me to inspect of.
Speaker 1But sit down on shore and shall pipe with so much if irry, I'm afraid I just wanted to ask if you were anything particular on hand, Miss Holmes.
Oh, I don't think so nothing much.
A little natter down of the docks involving a giant rat from Sumatra.
Speaker 2You've got to need the rest, look after themselves themselves.
Yet they've been murdered.
The apput Hampsteon wanted you to look into it for us queer business.
Oh really, who's been murdered?
sEH called New Vision.
Indeed, I believe I've heard the name homes homes not feeling dicky?
Are you what any details of stray world we know?
Who didn't?
Of course, you know, could have.
Couple of them got there, nearly got him.
Speaker 1They did.
Speaker 2There was a humane crist you see.
They got away worse love where they were seeing.
Speaker 1How interesting and what are they supposed to look like?
The first one very tall?
I a fellow middle side pick nict man.
We're gonna start to startle her head masks over their eyes?
Speaker 2Oh comelish trade.
That's other vague, isn't it?
On my sord?
It might even be a description of what's on me, as it might need.
Speaker 1If you're your right, mister Hope, you're perfectly right.
I, by jove, it might be.
Speaker 2Will you handle it?
I'm afraid not as traid, not this time.
I know something of this fellow milvert of me with a rogue and a blackmailer.
Speaker 1There are certain crimes of the law confundish adequately, my dear fellow, And in this instance my sympathies are with the criminals as trade.
I will not handle the case.
Will if you won't, you won't, y'all.
I'll get the fellows all right in time, I dare say, will Moon as trade.
Speaker 2I do hope you may pass me my violin.
Speaker 1If you go out there as a good fellow.
I kill juice Lazy this morning had rather a strenuous night.
Praysure it well, good morning, yeh he will gain an air, said always Inna the biggest teagonal comony, Inspector Morn Michuel.
Speaker 2Good morning.
That's a luckless say, oh.
Speaker 1Ant of five minutes like at homes, I'll take myself back to Afghanistan.
Oh no, you won't, Watson, you go to love it tools.
This is only the beginning, my dear hello, only the beginning.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Based on the part of doctor Watson and Sir John Gildgood that of Sherlock Holmes, A program was produced by Harry Allen Towers,
