Sherlock Holmes - Stolen Navel Treaty

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1:00Tonight the stars are frosty bright, no wind, no clouds, just clean, clear cold. Feels good to be sitting in front of your cosy fire, Dr. Watson, with our feet stretched on the fender. No, don't get too comfortable Mr. Hatties, because tonight I'm going to tell you about that one of Sherlock Holmes most important cases, the case of the stolen naval treaty. A naval treaty doctor? A highly exclusive document. Explosive? Yeah, it's written below the piece of Europe into bits. And did it? Now really Mr. Harris, you mustn't get ahead of the story, and let's not forget your part in the program. Right, Dr. Watson, and my part in the program is really a very simple one. My job is to tell our listeners the great big idea behind Clipper Crab Clubs. It's just this, to bring you the finest values and clothes in America at the friendly local store you can trust. Now naturally this is not easy, it takes real planning. It's the remarkable clipper craft plan that makes it all possible. Concentrating the buying car of 924 leading stores across America,

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3:07heck no sure, however they let us seem to be very urgent so I had it around to Baker Street. I found homes in his dressing gown plunged in the middle of a chemical investigation. A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner. See you the look of concentration on herb space. I seated myself in my old armchair and waited hardly daring to breathe. Most enlightening, most enlightening. Yes, you'll come at a crisis once in. If this slither paper remains blue and it touches the solution, all will be well. The turned red means the man's right. I see. Don't interrupt Watson, this is the crucial moment.

4:10Now watch carefully. There. But I see it has burned red and nested blood red. Blood red is quite correct Watson, a very common place in Erdogan. Well, at the end of that experiment. Hey, oh, Philip, you're pike. Then hand me the Persian slipper. All right. There you are. So you come on business Watson. Yes, but how did you know? The letter touched so tightly in your right hand not to mention the little excitement and an anxiety on your face. You are the stormy petrol of crime, Watson. What is it? Well, this letter is it came in the morning mail. Read it to me, that's a good champ. It's from an old school fellow of man I haven't seen him for years. Yes, but what does he say? The letter is headed Briar Bray, Wilking. And I hear Watson, I trust you still remember tadpole tropes who was in the fourth form when you were in the third. You may even have heard that through my uncle's influence I obtained a good appointment at the foreign office where I was in a situation of trust until a horrible misfortune suddenly blasted my career. Do you think you

5:16could sway your friends Sherlock Holmes? They come down here to help solve this terrible mess. I assure him that the only reason I have not asked him advice sooner was because I have been completely off-nighted for nine weeks. I am still so weak that I have to write by dictating as you see your old school fellow per se tops. Let me see that letter. Doesn't tell us very much does it? Hard to anything. He at the writing is of interest. But it's not his own. Precisely. It's a woman's. But it looks like a man. No, it's a woman. And a woman of unusual is wrong character. It's always interesting to know that your client is in close contact with someone who for good or evil has an exceptional nature. If my interest is already a wicker to the better. Then you will take the case. The next train for Wilking leaves an exact clip 43 minutes. Honey, what snow is your missing?

6:18If you step in here and from a knife, I find out if Mr. Pelt's can see you. Dear dear. Earlier the place hasn't changed since the days when I used to visit here on my vacations. Makes me feel quite young again. Ah Sherlock Holmes, I perceive. And Dr. Watson too, I presume. So glad to come. Percy's been inquiring for you all morning. Poor chap, he clings to any straw. By dear man, I may look as thin as a straw, but I promise you I have more weight mentally. I've received you yourself and not a member of the family. Oh Jeremy, how did you know? The monogram on the pocket of your blazer? J. H. Of course, of course. But at the moment I thought you had done something clever. My name is Harrison. Joseph Addison. Percy is engaged to marry my sister Annie. So I shall soon be a relation by marriage and narrate my sister is with him now. She's nursed him hand in foot during these trying to mutts. Suting his pivot brow, eh? Like a fellow? Yes. You'll find him in his room. My room,

7:21rather, at least it used to be my room until he came home after the catastrophe and collapsed. They couldn't carry him upstairs, he was in such a state. So they took him into my room. Eh, we'd better go in at once. I know how impatiently it is to see you. Yes, this conversation is delightful, but after all we did come to see Mr. Phelps. I guess so. Go out this way. It's in his swing. It's the dining room. You say, this is the door. I'll leave you here. You can come in if you like. Oh no, thank you no. Invellins are always depressing and with this misfortune hanging over his head. Oh poor fellow. Well, come in. Oh, you've cut last. At least I presume this is Sherlock Holmes. Quite, and how is your picture? Oh, he's much better, thank you. What's in my dear fellow? Well, tell him that you're a better figure. I'll let you know you're under that mustache. He didn't delight the super. Oh, this is my fiance, Miss Harrison. Please sit down. Shall I leave, Percy? Oh no, don't go any. If you don't mind with her? Not at all. I'd feel much steadier when she's here. Quite enough, Phelps.

8:25Well, you see, Mr. Herv's is like this. I was a happy and successful man. I'll even be married and then this dreadful misfortune ripped my life. I have a broken man, my own old darling. I'm rotten. I'm rotten. I can't help it. Percy, please, you'll make us up ill again. I'm sorry, Anne. Perhaps you'd better just tell us the fact as quietly as you can. So of course, Mr. Herv's, I was as what's in me of two in the phone office. They're in a responsible position. My uncle, Lord Hoodhurst, is the following minister, you know? Well, nearly eight years ago, a week's rather, the 23rd of May to be exact, he called me into his private room and informed me that he had a commission of trust for me to execute. Come in. Come in. Oh, it's you, Percy. Anyone out there on the hall? No, sir. Good. Come in and lock the door.

9:33Now, come over here. I want to make sure we can't be overheard. That's it. What's up, Uncle Berth? You look tremendously salty. It's a solid matter, Percy. Is he the species of paper? It's a secret treaty covering our naval situation in the Mediterranean. Armless enough in itself, but a bombshell if it should fall into the hands of a certain government. To win. The very wars may have years, Percy. Let us merely say the country of X. You understand? I understand. I want you to make a copy of it. I must have a complete copy of it tomorrow morning. You may have to work on it a bit of the night. Oh, that's all right. Sir, Joseph, and his brother, you know, is going to stop by for me. We're going to take the nine o'clock train together. He can tell the family I've been kept in town on visits. Oh, well, but leave the message with the commissioner downstairs. I don't want anyone in your room when you're copying that document. Very good, sir. When you've finished, you can put the document and the copy in my safe.

10:34You know the combination, I believe. Certain. That's all, Percy. But don't forget, you hold the piece of your up in your hands. I won't. Good night, Uncle Berth. See, though, I'd like to make a night of it. Oh, hello, Connor. You still here? Oh, yes, or are you had some details to clear up, so I thought it would want me to stay. Oh, that's all I got. Are you convinced tomorrow? Yes, are you sure you won't need me? No, thanks. Listen, look, as though I have a chance to go out for dinner. At least I can bring for coffee. I can find it that bell for this twisted again. There we are. The rain's coming down harder than ever. Nice, jolly, little evening. Yeah, you're sure there's something I can do with you, perhaps? Good Lord, no, Connor. Run along. Good night. Good night, Connor.

11:39Hello. I'm the commissioner's wife, sir. What's more, I'm the charlite here, round here. The charlite? I see, I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure of making your acquaintance before. No, sir, that you haven't. If you mean what I think you do. Would you inquire if your husband spare me a cup of the excellent coffee, he'd suffer any peace as the empire who applies to work at night? You mean Erby should bring you half a cup of coffee? Yes, please. I'll see what I can do about you. Yes, use your influence. Well, let's have a look at that pretty. Great Britain. Triple alliance. French fleet? What? Complete ascendancy.

12:55It's no use. I'm too fuzzy. Did we go over to have a cup of coffee? Herbert, I'd say Herbert, coffee. Oh, just found the telegraph. Go all the way downstairs. Herbert! Herbert! Pass the slip. Herbert, wake up. Hello, hello. You, Mr. Felt. I came down to see my coffee was ready, but I think the front doorbell just rang. Bell? Yes, but if you was here, who rang that bell? What bell? I told you it was it. It's the bell of the room you was working in, sir. Great Sunday, my bell. There's no one up there. The treaty. Oh, good heavens, I left it on the table. Quick Herbert, we've got to get up there. Something terrible is happening. What? Come on, we're here.

13:55Oh, no, no. Runs a faster. Great goddess. Too late. Oh, wait, I'll open the door. Stand back a bit. Go. In the yard. I've got my arm in, if Oliver. What? There's no one here. What's up, the treaty? The treaty's gone. Who could have taken it? No one's been in the front way tonight. And there was no one in the rooms but yourself. My wife said so. Then he must have come up the stairs and the high door and stepped out that way too. The afternoon has been quickly. You may not be too late. I'm in, I don't you go out, so you'll miss your best hope to the skin. There's a policeman on the corner. Anybody seen something? I say it, obviously. Yes, sir. There's no robbery in the power office. Has anyone passed this way? This ten-year court of an hour, sir, and only one living source, just in that time. Who was it? The tall old lady in a piece this short, she seemed in a hurry. Well, that was my wife. Which way do you see her? You're just wasting your time, sir. And every minute is of importance. Yes, all right. We'll go back to Scott and Yard. Oh, this is terrible.

14:56Have it, have it. We're ruined. Ah, never you mind, sir. You'll lose your post, perhaps. But they can't do nothing so dreadful to care. It's not my serve I'm thinking of. It's England. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. Well, officers from Scotland, Yard, were waiting for the child woman when she got home. And what did they find? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And God-o, did they trace him? Yes, Mr. Hurham. Again, nothing was found. I was fined to go to my mind. They had to get a doctor to take me home. I was literally at the spin-weeks. And these two people, God-o, and the child woman, they've been under observation of a sin-size post. Yes, with no results. You say they'd been raining all evening? Yes. But you found no traces of any kind to the room. So footprints mean absolutely none. Not even those of the child woman's muddy boots. How do you explain that?

15:58Well, the child woman and the habit of taking off their boots and wetting just copper surface. No footprints, eh? It's enlightening. It's the police who's not here. Not in the peltz. Could anyone have been concealed in the room or in the carotid? Impossible. There was no cover of any kind. Windows? There's a bit above the ground, locked on the inside. And it must have been the side door. Who knew you would have had the treaty in your possession? No, I'd take my oath on that. In your opinion, what would happen if those papers were to fall into the hands of a rival government? War. Or most instantaneously. But it's eight weeks, and we're not at war. Therefore, it's not unfair to suppose the treaty hasn't reached them. I don't imagine the thief took the treaty in order to frame it. Quite, when he's undoubtedly waiting for a better price. There's only one clue that puzzles me. What is that? Bell. Did someone get to prevent the crime or was it an accident? If we only knew when the bell was run, we should have the solution of this case. Is it even possible that he didn't? Of course, of course. When a fool I was not to think of that before.

16:59You think you can help me possibly? God bless you for that, Mr. Holmes. If we can keep our courage and our patience, the truth must come out. But there's one more adventure to tell you about. You're sure you're strong enough, darling? No, I feel better than I have for days. Hope is a splendid tonic, Annie. And what was this other incident, Mr. Helps? Well, you see, Mr. Holmes. Last night was the very first thing that I stepped out of my room. I was rather waitful. I had a nightmare or two. Suddenly, I had a slight noise. A kind of noise. Like a mouse, knowing a plank. It grew louder. And all at once there was a sharp metallic stick. Someone forcing the window. If I realized that, too, I jumped out there and hung over the surface. A man was crouching in the window. He was gone like a flash. What did he look like? Like a really low. He was wrapped in some sort of cloak which came across the lower part of his face. Oh, one thing I am sure of. He had a long weapon in his head that looked like a knife. I saw the dream of it as he turned the run. I shoved it after him. And then?

17:59Then I was the collapse from the effort. That thing I knew I was surrounded by the entire household. Oh, a Joseph in the room found marks in the flower bed outside this window. You can see them from where you sit. Hear me, yes, I'm afraid Joseph in the room have been a bit too energetic for me to learn anything from the traces. The flower bed looks as if it had been trampled on by an army. Oh, I'm sorry. I should have burglar. If it was a burglar, choose to enter this room. The dining room windows are much larger and more accessible. I can't imagine unless it's a plot against Percy. That sounds a bit melodramatic, at all. There's something in what Miss Harrison says. So much for Dr. Watson and I to take you to a plumber with us. Yes, but he's not very strong, you know. The trick to London will not be nearly as of dangerous to your fiance, Miss Harrison, as another night in this room. Good. And another thing, Miss Harrison. You can be very helpful to us and to Mr. Helps. Mr. Helps, if you'll, one thing for me. It may take courage, but I think I can promise that you'll be a no-great personal danger. What did you want me to do? Stay in this room until you go to bed tonight.

18:59Don't leave it for an instant. Mr. Helps' reputation and my whole future may depend on it. I'm not going to ask you to sleep here that when you leave for the night, I want you to lock the bedroom door on the outside. Yes, but you're here, something might happen. Another word to anyone. It's for his sake, remember. Coming. Learns everybody? Something especially nice for you, Percy. Come along, Annie. Oh, Joseph, if you'll excuse me, I have a slight headache. I think I'll eat in here by myself. The breeze is nice. I want to be alone. I can't say I enjoy constant walks in the middle of the night, Watson. I thought we'd go back to London. That's what you told everybody. We get on the train with Percy in the nurse, and then we get off of the next station

20:02and leave Percy in the nurse's garage under the loan. It doesn't make sense. Stop fussing, he'll be all right. I sent him on the Baker Street. With any luck, we should be there ourselves in time to have breakfast with him. Yes, but why sneak back to Briar Braylike dish? Not so loud. As the house now, you can see its cables in the moonlight. Follow me through the hedge. Why the hedge when the gates open up so loud? We've got to get as near to the house possible without being seen. I say those quite a mistrising ghostly looking tips of it over there in the middle. She looked. The lamp is still lit in person. I mean, it gives us room. Miss Harrison must have kept her promise. Yes, there she is reading a book. Now she's put it down. She's picking up the lamp. I see homes. She must be getting ready to go to bed. Why possibly what? I only hope she doesn't forget to lock the door on the outside.

21:04There she goes to the dining room. Now the light's gone. I see the mistar creeping up in the middle of here. If only the thief doesn't wait until they blank it down. Look, the service door is opening. Excellent. I didn't think he'd wait a bit long. There he comes out into the moonlight. He's waiting alone, black keep. You can't see his face. He's forcing the window. He's got it open. He's climbing off the sill. He must get close as we can see. I see he's like the candles on the mantle. Look, he's putting back the rug. In the floor, I thought so. He's picking up a board. Now, Mr. Joseph Harrison, we couldn't have to hand over the papers.

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24:13What is a close nine now Mrs Hudson and Holmes said they have a breakfast at nine. Now don't you worry Mr. Feltz. If he says he'll be here for breakfast he'll be here. It's when he don't say that's when you don't know whether it'll be breakfast or supper if he wants him next. What should I tell you? Here they are now driving up an answer cab. There's a front door and it's nine to the second. Morning Mrs Hudson. Good morning sir. This is on the table, fighting hot. What do I say Holmes you've been wounded? Your hands all tied up. Just a scratch. Hmm breakfast. Three covered dishes. Spended. And plenty of steaming coffee. Excellent. Did you order? I mean, I didn't come. Business can wait until after breakfast. You'll look as if you needed a bit of nourishment Mr. Feltz. Well I'm not very hungry. Well we are.

25:13I'm nervous. Aha. What's this? Mmm. Curry chicken. And this? Ham and eggs. Better and better. Which will you take Mr. Feltz? Thank you I couldn't touch a thing. Well come, try the dish before you. I'd rather not really. Well then I suppose you have no objection to helping me. Let's see what that dish contains. Certainly. What? It's papers. It's the nevary tree. The nevary. Oh God bless you. Miss Holmes. God bless you. You saved me. You saved me. And don't mention it, my dear chap. Don't mention it. But when did Holmes first think it suspect this Harrison fellow Dr. Watson? He heard that first he was expecting to stop back for him Mr. Harris.

26:14I'm afraid Joseph's character was black and the one who judged from his appears. We learn later that he had lost heavily in doubling in stocks. And that he thought he could turn the tree into money. Yes. Besides no one but Joseph could be so anxious to get into that bedroom because no one but Joseph could have conceived anything there. Also the attempt was made the first night the nest was out of the way. Therefore the intruders were acquainted with the house but the bell Dr. Watson. Why was that so significant? Well Mr. Harris had assured that the had not come there to pass his office to steal the papers. He came for another reason by appointment as we know. He rang the bell and then happened to see the papers. A Dr. Watson was he convicted? No. The case was never brought to court. It would have been too ticklish a position for the following office. He was advised however to get out of the country and stay out. And did personally marry the sister doctor? Indeed. And to this day I don't believe she knows why her brother never returns to England.

27:15While that was an exciting case Dr. Watson. And now what story are we to have next week? We'll let me see. Next week I think I'll tell about the Cornish horror or the cradle that rocked itself. The cradle that rocked itself? The head is the rocking cradle that was supposed to indicate that someone had been vining hot so it was about to die. As a matter of fact there were two deaths and another that her was... Well suppose I leave that to next week. The makers of Clippercraft Clothes and 924 leading retail stores from coast to coast have brought you another of the new series of broadcasts featuring the world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is produced and directed by Basil Ocron with special music by Albert Berman.

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