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And now here we are again on our usual visit to Dr. Watson. He's waiting for us in his study. A cheerful blaze crackling on the hot. Then there are leaves to see you, Mr. Manning. Hasn't there well been a trotious today? How is beginning to wonder if you'll be able to get here tonight to all this fog? Yes, it certainly is what you Londoners call a regular pea souper. Indeed. It reminds me of the adventure of the missing submarine plans. The case of the salt in the underground. Underground? What you Americans call it a subway? Yes, but what is the solution in a subway? Got to do with a Friday night. You see, the affair started in weather exactly like this. It was a third week in November, the year 1895, to be exact. On Monday, a dense yellow fog had settled down upon London. On Thursday, it was still there, thick here and murkier than ever. At first homes had turned his nervous energy to cross indexing his huge reference books.

But when, after pushing our breakfast chairs back for the first morning, we saw the greasy browns were still drifting past the windows. Homes his patient snapped. Homes, if you must pace around in circles, that was you changed directions then you're making the decision. Back, it's an excuseable watch and inexcusable, no initiative, no imagination, nothing ever gets done. If you're alluding to the inactivity in this last session of Parliament, my dear. I'm not speaking about lawmakers watching, but about law breakers. The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Makes you, sir. Well, look out of the window. Ideal weather for committing a crime. The criminal advances and his intended victim practically unseen. He pounces and disappears into thin air. There have been numerous petty thefts. A bloody petty thefts, pickpockets, ragamuffins. What's the country coming to? Now, if I were a criminal, what's...

I for one would move to America. Hello, hello, Mrs. Hudson's not going to excited. What's up, I wonder? Mrs. Hudson, what is it? Oh, it's a little bit more. Oh, yes, sir. Very well, thank you. Oh, what's it, sir? No, wait until I open it, can't you? Ah, dear me. What next? Most unusual, what's most unusual? What's most unusual, what's... What's it, sir? It's from my brother, my crop. You remember him? He helped us solve the case of the Greek interpreter. He's coming here. Why not? What's so phenomenal about that? Why not? Why not, indeed? It's a startling as it would be to me to tramcar, coming down a country lane. Yes, yes, now I come to think of it. My crop is rather like a tramcarb. His rails lead, from his pale mal-ludging, to the diogeny's club and a white hole. That's his circle. I wonder what a people could have derailed it. Doesn't the telegram explain? It says, uh, must see you about Cadaghan West coming at once. Cadaghan West? Cadaghan West? Why that's the young chap who's found dead in the underground?

Don't you see it this morning? I remember reading about it in the papers. Oh. If the man had apparently fallen out of the train and killed himself, he hadn't been robbed and there was no reason to suspect violence. Quite an uninteresting case. If I remember correctly. And yet? It's serious and I'm to cause my crop to offer his habits. No one. This must be an extraordinary event. And you would call any other facts about the affair? Yes, and I come to think that there was one unusual bit about who came out of the inquest. They were unable to ask the tenant what point he entered the train. His ticket was missing, strange. But articles were found on the body. Oh, 2015 I believe it was at checkbook and... Oh yes, yes, there's two dressed circle tickets for the Woolidge Theatre. The date is that evening. Here the ticket's a. And it wasn't suicide. And then doesn't procure 30 theatre tickets for the evening on which he intends to end his life. Anything else? A small packet of technical papers. Technical papers. What kind of technical papers?

The new... The new papers didn't say. Ah, and serious as that. What do the young man do? Where was he employed? In the park at Woolidge Us. Ah, government employee. There we have it Watson. British government. Woolidge Arsenal, technical papers. That's why my crop is involved in this affair. Well, don't understand. No, I suppose not. Watson, have I ever told you what my crop is? Your brother, of course. No, no, no, Watson. Do you have to be so dense? I mean, do you know what he does? I seem to have some vague recollection that you once told me that he'd held some small office under the British government. It would be more accurate to say in a way that he is the British government. What? His position is unique. He made it for himself. As the tightiest and most audibly great of any man alive, with a great capacity for storing facts and giving them the proper interpretation. The conclusions of every government department have passed on to him. He's the central exchange, the clearinghouse. Again and again, his word has decided the national policy. He thinks of nothing else. Nothing else can lure him from his contemplation.

It is coming here. Yes, Jupiter is descending on us today. What an earth can one have? It can happen. And Watson, that sounds suspicious. They're like a bad pun. Ah, here he is. I'm not mistaken. To speak for himself. Come in, come in. Hello, Microp. What's up? What's up? You look plus to it. No, no, no. I'm not. There's no shirt or no. No, no, no. You know how I dislike ordering my habits. It's extremely awkward for me to come with me off his, particularly with Simon, his presence stays. Dear me. Yes, it's done. Microp sit down. You know what's, and of course. It's a good thing. I'm trying to find a chair that I can trust the whole man and better take the sofa. If you've certainly hadn't got any thinner. I've never seen the Prime Minister serve set. The surveyed emergency is buzzing like an upset behind. You know anything about the case? What's it just been telling me? What was in the newspapers? Just what were the technical papers found on the bodies? Shhh. For the, for the, for the, for the, heaven not so loud. Those papers were so wretched youth had these pocket. When that mother from the plans of the Bruce Bardington

seminary, the seminary which would completely revolutionize naval warfare, the most important papers in our government archives under no circumstances could have been removed from the office. Even the chief constructor of the Navy was forced to go to a village of a desire to consult them. And yet we find them in the pockets of a dead junior task in the heart of London. Yeah, from an official point of view, it's deplorable, my dear microbes. Simply deplorable. You may laugh, Sherlock, but this country won't be safe until they are recovered. I thought you said that they were found in the pocket of the chef, Codagon West. Ten papers taken from the village. Seven were found in the pockets of Codagon West. Three are still missing. The three are central ones. To recover those three papers is impenetive. The piece of your impenetive. Nice little problem, eh, wasn't? Why did Codagon West take the papers? How did he die? How did his body reach the place where it was found? And where are the missing papers? Finally, I said of those questions, Sherlock, and you will have done your country an invaluable service. Why don't you solve it yourself, MicrofW, you could?

Oh, possibly. It's a question of digging out details. Give me the details, and I can give you the solution from an armchair. No, when it comes to running about, it can cross questioning railway guards and lying on one's face with the lens to one's eye. No, no, that's not my measure. Besides your figure prevents your taking such an unbignific position, eh? Very well. Leave that part of it, was it? What's in it? It's all good. I've got to care for waiting outside to take the place where the body was found. I can give you the details on the way. Now, my crop. Who was the official god in these famous papers? No, let's say personally, Mr. James Walter, gentlemen who's grown gray in the service. His patriotism was beyond suspicion. That's a little bit of a mistake. And livers with his brother. Yes. Here's the House of Edmonds in Claire, at Barclay Square, during the whole of the evening

when this exit undercured, the Edmonds of Outs is falling. He's one of the two who have the only keys to save. His keep is with him all evening? Right. His key, the key to the building, the key to the room. Who was the man with the other key? The senior clerk, Mr. Cidley Johnson, the man of 40, married, silent, morose, an excellent service record. And the other guy, he too had his key with him, seems to have spent the evening playing a game drafts for the green grocer and the corner from his lodgings. Of course, he has only the word of this green grocer back in the room. Come, come, my dear, my crop. No classed as combinations, please. The word of a green grocer is often just as good as that of an admiral. But what about Goodbye to the West? He had a good reputation, a bit half headed, but straight anonymous. At least ever in Potser. He was next to Cidley Johnson at the office. This duty's brought him into daily personal contact with the plans. No one else ever had the handling of them. Oh, it's perfectly clear. He must have taken it. Oh, not so fast, but not so fast. Pull up them up that night, Mr. Cidley Johnson. They would have value, commercially, I mean. Oh, yes. There's no doubt that West could have got several thousands

for them very easily. And yet, only a small amount of money was found on the body. Perhaps the buyer took it back off-peed-murdered West. Now, what puzzles me is, how did West obtain possession of those papers? To do so, he must have had a false key. Several false keys, Sherlock. He had opened the building, and the room was well. Oh, well, well, well. Several false keys, then. Let me see. Let me see. Suppose West did take the papers and went into town. And on the way back to Wool Edge, where he is hoping to replace the papers, he is killed and thrown from the train. But the spot for the body was found as considerably passed the station for an inbred, which is the Rift of Wool Edge. It's interesting. Also, if Young West did make an appointment with some foreign agent to sell the papers that night, why didn't he keep even care? Why buy two theater tickets? Exactly. For the morning, actually, a squadron is fiancee halfway there before he disappeared. A blind? That's what it looks like to me. Why did you take the papers at all? Why not copy them out in the office and sell the copies? He certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so. And why the absence of his underground ticket? That's a ticket, but it's shown us which station

was near the agent's house. So the madrer destroyed it. Good watching. Very good. And yet, I wonder. Well, here's the underground station. The real way authorities have sent a man round to show the exact place where the body was found. You won't change a mind and come with us? Go crawling around that black hole in my hands and knees. I'm not very likely. Well, I shall expect a report on your efforts in the evening. I never expect too much, my crop. Never expect too much. I'll be back. Before we follow Holmes and Watson into the mazes of the London subway system, I have a word of advice. Every year, Coles calls a lot of sickness. Every year, they cause a lot of expense and time lost from work. Always regard a cold, seriously. Always treated, earnestly. At the first time of a cold, take groves, bromo-quinine tablets. Bromo-quinine tablets are famous relief for the distress of a cold.

Their efficacy has been fully established. Bromo-quinine tablets go right to work on a cold symptom. They don't waste any time. They don't pull any punches. They quickly relieve the misery of a cold. They help reduce the fever of a cold. Thousands of people keep bromo-quinine tablets heavily all winter. Thousands of people depend on them as their relief or colds. No other preparation enjoys greater confidence than bromo-quinine tablets. Follow the example of millions. And at the first time of a cold, take groves, bromo-quinine tablets. Get them at any drugstore, a few cents a box. Ask specifically for groves, gro, b, e, s, bromo, b, r, o, m, o, quinine, q, u, i, m, i, n, e. Groves, bromo-quinine tablets. This way, sir, step right along the tracks. If it isn't safe, supposing a train should come shooting

round that curve. Oh, that's all right, sir. There won't be another for five minutes anyway. Here we are, sir. This is where they found the body, right here, alongside the rails. What's going on in its face, it was. Spooky old place, eh, home? I could cut a comb, only without the skeleton. Anything in his hands, when they found him? Larissa. Were they clenched? Well, spread out as if he were protecting himself. Larissa, there was what you might call relax. What time did always happen? Well, sir, the train he was oystered out of as near as we can figure past along here about midnight on Mandan. All the carriages of an examine for signs of violence, I suppose? They didn't find nothing, not even the missing ticket. There was a passenger to all gate on the ordinary train about 1140 it was. He said he'd heard heavy, fat, like something strike in the line. Just before the train reached this station, but it was so foggy, he said he was best if he could see what it was. Home, what's the matter? What are you staring at? The curve, Watson.

What other than the rails? What other than what do you mean? As further out, then he curves as abrupt as this? No, sir, I can't say as there is. What a curve he's going to do in it. What's the indication? What's the million indicate? Remember that time I was in Paris trying to order a croissant and all I got were puzzled looks. That frustrating language barrier is something many of us face while traveling. Babel understands this and offers a practical way to learn languages, focusing on real life conversations you'll actually use. With Babel, it's not just about memorizing endless lists or complex grammar rules. Instead, it's about getting you ready for real interactions in a new language, with lessons designed by over 200 language experts. And you know what's great? You can start having meaningful conversations in just three weeks by practicing just 10 minutes a day. If you've ever wanted to reconnect with your roots or finally visit that dream destination without the language barrier, now's your chance. Get up to 60% off your subscription today by visiting babble.com pod. That's b-a-b-b-e-l.com slash pod.

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Visit DiscoverSouthCareline.com. Hmm, unique. Perfectly unique, and yet why not? I don't see any indications of bleeding on the line. I said there wasn't any to speak off, but I understand there was a considerable wound. The bone was crashed, rise and ask, Holmes, you hear that? It's a train, it's coming this way. Run, see, run, see a line. Yes, this is where, up there, there's a place where the train switched off. Run, run, it's just around the curve. We'll never make it. Yes, we will fast, to faster. Head to business, we're coming. Come on, here comes the train now. We'll make it, we'll make it. Ah, Justin, watch some from the level of heaven. You're on the wrong track. Well, that was an hour of scary homework. I'm not sure if I need to say my knees are so shaking. Look at the shoulder, my coat, where you pull it there. I'm lucky to think for you that I did. Well, we off to now. And then it's fogged. Yes, it's a nice afternoon.

Suppose we pay a few calls. I think Sir James Walter claims our first attention, after that we might drop in on Miss Westbridge. Miss Westbridge? Oh, she. She is Codogan West's fiancee, and the last person to see him alive. Holmes, we seem to be going around in circles. We've accomplished absolute enough in so far, except to get to get ourselves nearly an hour late in the underground. Our flawless perfectly obvious, the young man had a quarrel with someone. No brotherhood to the agent. To whom he sold the paper. We've got himself thrown out of the rail with carriage for his pay. I disagree with you, my dear Watson. His body fell from the roof of the carriage, where it had been placed. Codogan West met his death elsewhere. The roof of the train? Consider the facts, Watson. Hey, the curve in the tracks. The body is found at a spot where the clean pictures and sues as it comes around the points. B, there's no ticket. C, there are no signs of bleeding on the line because the body had blood elsewhere. Oh, it's a cross. Everything fits together. But where was the body placed on the track? I think I can make a fair guess of that, my dear Watson. Ah, here we are.

This is the famous official villa of Sir James Walter. And that, if I'm not mistaken, is his brother, Colonel Valentine, just coming out of the house. What's the matter with the man he looks positively haunted? Oh, pardon me Colonel Valentine, but can you tell me if Sir James is at home? Sir James, Sir James is dead. Good heavens, dead. He died this morning. It's terrible, terrible. How did he die? Oh, it's this hodical scandal. My brother served as better sensitive as his honor. He couldn't survive the disgrace to his department. It broke his heart. Pardon me Jack, I must go. It broke his heart. Most of the polling development. There he is. I wondered if his death was natural, or if the poor fellow killed himself. Will you tell Miss Westbrith, Mr. Schollock, Holmes, would like to see her? Oh, please come in gentlemen. I'm Valck Westbrith, Mr. Holmes. I've been expecting you ever since I heard you in taking the case. Please be seated. Well, thank you. Oh, Mr. Holmes, we're...

We're not going to be coming from here. I'm not going to leave you. Here, please. I will be right back. I'll be right back. I'm going to leave you. I'm not going to leave you. Oh, Mr. Holmes, we must say his good name. He couldn't have done it. Because I can lose the most sure was patriotic gentleman or not, he couldn't have done it. He would have cut his right hand off rather than sell us tea tickets. But the facts might be on this Westbury. I admit I can't explain them. Was he in need of money? No, Mr. Holmes. His need was simple and his salary very good. He'd saved several hundred pounds. We were to be married at the new year. I see. Had you noticed any signs of mental excitement? Well, that is... No, come this Westbury. Be frank with us. Yes, Mr. Holmes. Without neither. I had a feeling that there was something on his mind. Mm-hmm. Tell us about it, will you? We were on the way to the theatre. It was a four-nighter, remember? We were walking slowly.

Our way took us close to his office. Could I have seen Sputful and worried? How is the matter? You haven't said a word for the last five minutes. Have I said a dumb thing? Of course not, Silly. It's just that I've got something on my mind. No, why not tell me about it? Perhaps I can help you. It's not your spy. It's too serious for me to talk about even the old. You know, Sim Junkady, I feel just the least little bit jealous of that old job of yours. When you're cooped up in that building all day. Well, now you're not going to be jealous of a building. You will not really. But it is funny to think of a husband having secrets to tell his wife. My dear, important secrets I can tell you. There's one in particular that any foreign spy would take good money to get all of them. Oh, it's really? And I don't know. They're awfully slack about some things over there and that building about it. What's too slack? It would be too confounded easy for a trader to get his hands on those plans. What plans? Never mind, darling. I guess I'm getting a bit meldramatic. There's something been wearing me. Hello, what's that?

What's what? Over there, the shadow moving along the side of the building. It's a man. So beautiful. A man. So that's it. I always suspected. How would men are you? You're so excited. What's wrong with you? Stay here, darling. There's something I have to find out. Stay here. Er weighted and weighted. But he never returned. On the tombs that you could only save his honor, it meant so much to him. You will do our best, Miss Westbrit. This shadow, this man moving along the building. Did you see it, too? I think I did, Mr. Holmes. But the night was so foggy, I can't be sure. But there must have been a man. Another man, if it couldn't have been, Codagan. Surely, character goes for something. Let us hope so. Come along, Watson. We must return home. I'm expecting an answer. It doesn't tell a grime. I sent a micro after all this afternoon. We've done enough for one day.

Holmes, we've been all day. You left this morning, fire was up. How you've come home with a towel or a suit torn, and it's ravenous as a wolf. Ha ha, yes. I'm out of bit of exercise, my dear Watson. Ah, plus me the tongue, will you? You bit of done, you go to go along. Yes, what were you doing? Investigating the premises, inhabited by foreign spies, known to have been in London on last Monday, my crops and me list of them. Took a bit of doing, too. Climbing walls, breaking into cellars, pounding around rooftop. Oh. I discovered there was only one residence which had the proper facilities for disposing of West's body after the murder. Who's there? Who's there? It belongs to a Shukou Obistine. The addresses 13 Corpill Gardens, Kensington. A gentleman himself was departed for Europe. Gone, has he? He took plans with him. It's too late. Not necessarily Watson. What we do now? We're going to keep a rendezvous with a gentleman who stole and sold those plans. The Ascension will take place at Mr. Obistine's house this evening at 9. What the... Do you see a talking room? These newspaper trippings, I found them in the drawer, Shukou Obistine's desk, read them. The Daily Telegraph, Anglican. The first one says,

two complexion descriptions must have full report, terms agreed to payable win-go to deliver. Signed Piero. Piero indeed sounds like a Māori girl. I read on Watson, read on. Second goes, matter presses, must withdraw for unless contact completed. Piero again. And the last, they did Monday. The day the client was committed. Monday night after night, two taps, payment in hard cash. I say, Do you think it was something that the plans of the TV's buying? I'm almost positive. And Piero was Obistine himself. You'll find out for certain this evening. I've invited the gentleman who sold the papers to meet us. How I don't understand. I said, this advertisement in today's Daily Telegraph. Tonight, same hour, same place, two taps, vitally important. Your own safety at stake. Signed Piero as usual. George, if he answers, that we've got him. Unless we're too late, come on Watson, there's no time to lose. You can take this pass here, pay it for a change, Allah. I've been carrying it around all day. What's in it? Oh, just a gemmy, a dark lantern, a chiseler, and a revolver. Nice equipment for a respectable citizen to be carrying about the streets of London. I must say. Hey, you know what, there are times when I suspect

we aren't quite respectable. Here we are. This is coffee of gardens. I can't see so far here. I shouldn't like to be caught in the act of house breaking. Yeah. Oh, this war wasn't. There's a window we can use to pry open in the back. Scale it? Come on, hurry up, hurry up. There's no time to lose. Yeah, yeah. I'll give you a boost. Come on, I'll be. That's it. Look out here, I come. No, let's say, Holmes, you're a bad girl as a cat. It's on Canada. This is the window. Like the lantern in the gemmy. One, two. Holmes, yeah, Miguel. Rams right past here. Almost on the level of these windows. I can reach out and touch it. Yeah, it's quite convenient, wasn't it? Here, the body was placed on the roof of the train. Out of this window, sir. You don't see the city blurred with the rest of the body in here? Look, look, look. This brown state is blurred. No, sir.

Let's get on the labs. Very well, then. Come along, come along. The window's open. Easy, easy, don't break the glass. I suppose he helps us change. It happened to return home. We must take our chances in this business. Come on, Watson, come along. I'll visit there. We'll expect the lit in by the front door. I wish he used to tell us to live in this quick, so. Nine o'clock. Three things to do. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. Nine o'clock. We can expect him at any moment now. Do you take your opposition on one side of the door? I'll be on the other. We can punch on him when he enters. I'll throw my grit coat over his head. I wish he'd heard it. What? I wonder what he'd be doesn't come. There he is. Ready now. I'll open the door. You wanted me? No, you don't. Take that. What? What? I'll go over to you. Easy, Watson. All right, Holmes, I've got him.

Well, let's take a look at that catch. Take me over to go to weigh Watson. Five. Five. It's Colonel Valentine's walk. What? It's a dangerous walk. Quite. Well, sir, one of you to save yourself. Why did you steal the Bruce Puttingham plans? Who is your...what do you know about this? I am Sherlock Holmes, and I know everything. Oh, this is terrible. I'm lost. I didn't realize it important, since I got that kill himself. But I need his money. I had to have it. Overstead offered to give it to me by checking the plans. You took an impression of your brother's key. Opened the safe and procured the papers. Kedagon West saw you leaving the building. Followed you here and you killed him. No, I didn't do that. I swear I didn't do it. No. And perhaps you better tell us who did met a Kedagon West. And placed him on the roof of the railway carriage. I'll tell you. I promise you I will. I did the rest. I confess it, but not that. Very well then. How did it happen? I got the papers as you've discovered. It made my way through the fall until I reached the door. Once or twice I planted how it's been followed. I could hear footsteps on the pavement behind me. Colonel, order. Yes. You have the papers?

Yes. Let me in. Quick. I think someone's been following me. Yes, it's me. Can't you do this, Valentine? It's freezing. Oh, have you heard? No. You can't sell the papers, Valentine. I won't do it. He's not seeing. Look out, sweater. Take that. Oh. How do you like that, my impetuous young friend? Couple of overstead me knows how to use it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. I'm going to have it. Couple of overstead me knows how to use a blackjack. Oh, here. You don't kill them. So it's murder. I'm going to get out of this. Oh, no. I think difference. You will come in here if you do not wish to taste a blackjack too. But I... That is better. Oh, what can we do? They'll find the body. I have an idea. First, I look at those papers. I take the ones I want under arrest. We put in the pocket of this foolish young man. And then we give him a nice ride on top of the underground train. No? He will be the guilty one. Who will ever know?

Well, a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman. What a pity that he got away with the papers, Dr. White. No, but he didn't. Overstead had left. A Paris forwarding address with Colonel Walters. That gentleman was sent him a letter dictated by Holmes. Saying that he had discovered that one essential detail in the plans was missing. And that he had procured a tracing which would make it complete for a price. And that Obestine swallowed the bait. Could you do so, David? He was arrested as he got off the boat at Fox. Some weeks later, I learned incidental that Holmes had spent a day at Windsor Castle. The return will remarkably find Emerald Type-In. When I asked him where he got to the answer, it was just a small present from a certain gracious little old lady. From whom he'd been able to do a small, fat favor. Yes, and I think I can guess the lady's or Gus's name. Elementary, my dear Mr. Manning. Elementary. I see. Ladies and gentlemen, in just a moment, Dr. Watson will be back to tell us about next week's story. In the meantime, let us repeat. Watch out for colds. At the first time of a cold, take groves, bromocguyanide tablets.

Bromocguyanide tablets are made especially for the relief of colds. In other words, they're specialized medication, and that's what you want. Yes, at the very first sneeze or sniffle, they'll write to your drugst and get a package of groves, bromocguyanide tablets. Now, Dr. Watson, next week? Next week, I think I'll tell you the story of the lion's mane. The lion's mane. What was that, Dr. Watson? The answer to that question was to Manning, almost tumped Sherlock Holmes and so. Suffice it to say that they were the last words gust of a dying man that he lay right in agony, from the sands of the Sussex coast. You have been listening to a Sherlock Holmes adventure, adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The Bruce Pointington Plans, with dazzle rathbone of Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. The dramatization was by Edith Meiser. This program is presented from Hollywood every week at this same time

by the makers of groves, bromo, quina, and tablets. Quick relief for colds. This is not Manning speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company.

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