In this thrilling episode, we delve into the mysterious case of the missing submarine plans, a tale that begins on a foggy night in London. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into the investigation when Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother, seeks their help. The case revolves around the death of Cadogan West, a young clerk found dead in the underground with crucial government documents in his possession. As Holmes and Watson navigate the foggy streets and underground tunnels of London, they uncover a web of espionage and betrayal, leading them to confront foreign spies and uncover the truth behind the stolen plans.
Join us as we follow Holmes and Watson on a suspenseful journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. From the fog-laden streets of London to the corridors of power, the duo unravels a conspiracy that threatens national security. With sharp wit and keen observation, Holmes pieces together the puzzle, revealing the true culprit and the motive behind the crime. This episode is a testament to the enduring legacy of Sherlock Holmes and his unparalleled detective skills.
(01:54) Introduction to Sherlock Holmes Adventure
(03:05) The Foggy Night and the Missing Plans
(05:00) Mycroft's Urgent Visit
(09:00) The Investigation Begins
(13:44) A Narrow Escape in the Underground
(18:12) Interviews and Discoveries
(23:21) The Spy's Rendezvous
(27:10) The Culprit Revealed
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And now, here we are again on our usual visit to doctor Watson. He's waiting for us in his study. A cheerful blaze crackling on the heart. And better leave to see you, mister Manning. Hasn't the weather been atrocious today?
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I was beginning to wonder if you'd be able to get here tonight through all this fog. Yes. It certainly is what you Londoners
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call a regular p super. Indeed.
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It reminds me of the adventure of the missing submarine plans, a case that was solved in the underground. Underground? What you Americans call a a subway. Yes. But what is a solution in a subway got to do with a foggy night? Well, you see, the affair started in weather exactly like this. It was the 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 thickier and and murkier than ever. At first, Holmes had turned his nervous energy to cross indexing his huge reference books. But when, after pushing our breakfast chairs back for the for the fourth morning, we saw the greasy brown swirl still drifting past the windows, Holmes' patience snapped.
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Holmes, if you must pace around in circles, I wish you'd change directions now and then. You're you're making me dizzy. It's inexcusable, Watson. 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 of our lawmakers, Watson, but of our lawbreakers. The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. What makes you so? Well, look out of the window. Ideal weather for committing a crime. The criminal advances on his intended victim practically unseen. He pounces
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and disappears into thin air. There have been numerous petty thefts, I believe. Petty
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thefts, pickpockets, ragamuffins. What's the country coming to?
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Now, if I were a criminal, Watson Oh, I for one would move to America.
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Oh, hello. Hello. Missus Hudson is not getting excited. What's up, I wonder? Yes, missus Hudson. What is it? Oh, it's a man for me. Yes, sir. Very well. Thank you. Oh, well. What's it, sir? Oh, wait until I open it, can't you? Ah, dear me. Me. What next? Most unusual, Watson. Most unusual. What's most unusual, Watson? What's it, sir? Well, it's from my brother, Mycroft. You remember him. He helped us solve the case of the Greek interpreter. He's coming here. Why not? What's so phenomenal about this? Why not? Why not indeed? It's as startling as it would be to meet a tram car coming down a country lane. Yes. Yes. Now I come to think of it. Mycroft is rather like a tram car. His rails lead from his Pell mell lodgings to the Diogenes Club in Whitehall. That's his circle. I wonder what upheaval could have derailed him. Doesn't the telegram explain? It says, must see you about Cadogan West coming at once. Cadogan
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West? Cadogan West? Why, that's the young chapels found dead in the underground on Tuesday morning. I remember reading about it in the papers. Oh? The young man had apparently fallen out of a train and and killed himself. He hadn't been robbed, and there was no reason to suspect violence. Quite an uninteresting case, if I remember correctly.
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It's serious enough to cause Mycroft to alter his habits. Know what? This must be an extraordinary event.
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Do you recall any other facts about the affair? Yes. I come to think that there was one unusual bit about came out of the inquest. They were unable to ascertain at what point he entered the train because his ticket was missing. Strange.
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What articles were found on the body?
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Two pounds fifteen, I believe it was. A checkbook and oh, yes. Yes. There's two dress circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre
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dated for that evening. Theatre tickets, Then it wasn't suicide. A man doesn't procure theater tickets for the evening on which he intends to end his life. Anything else? A small packet
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of technical papers. Technical papers? What kind of technical papers? The new the newspapers didn't say.
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As serious as that. What did the young man do? Where was he employed? He was a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal. Ah, government employed. There we have it, Watson. British government, Woolwich Arsenal, technical papers. That's why Mycroft is involved in this affair. I don't understand. No. I suppose not. Watson, have I ever told you what Mycroft 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 tidiest and most orderly brain of any man alive with a great capacity for storing facts and giving them the proper interpretation. The conclusions of every government department are passed on to him. He's the central exchange, the clearing house. Again and again, his word has decided the national policy. He thinks of nothing else. Nothing else can lure him from his contemplations. And yet he's coming here. Yes. Jupiter is descending on us today. What on earth can we have? Now Watson, that sounds suspiciously like a bad pun.
Ah, here he is, if I'm not mistaken, to speak for himself. Come in. Come in. Hello, Mycroft. What's up? What's up? You look flustered. Most annoying, miss miss Sherlock. Most annoying. You know how I dislike altering my habits. Extremely awkward for me to come away from the office, particularly with Siam in its present state. Oh, dear me. Sit down, Mycroft. Sit down. You know Watson, of course. No. No. No. No. No. I'm trying to find a chair that I can trust to hold, ma'am. I'd better take the sofa if you certainly haven't got any thinner. I've never seen a prime minister so upset. It's a very admiralty. It's buzzing like an upset beehive. Do you know anything about the case? Watson's just been telling what was in the newspapers.
Just what were the technical papers found on the body? Shh. Sherlock, for the love of heaven, not so loud.
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Those papers which a wretched youth had in his pocket were none other than the plans of the Bruce Poddington submarine. Oh? The submarine
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which would completely revolutionize naval warfare, the most important papers in our government archives. Under no circumstances could they be removed from the office. Even the chief constructor of the navy was forced to go to Woolwich if he desired to consult them. And yet we find them in the pockets of a dead junior Tark in the heart of London. Yeah. From an official point of view, it's deplorable, my dear Mycroft. Simply deplorable. You may laugh, Sherlock, but this country won't be safe until we are recovered. But I thought you said that they were found in the pocket of this chap, Cadogan West. 10 papers taken from Woolwich. Seven were found in the pockets of Cadogan West. 3 are still missing, the three essential ones. To recover those three papers is imperative. The peace of Europe depends on them. Nice little problem, Watson. Why did Cadogan 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? Find the answer to those questions, Sherlock, and you'll have done your country an invaluable service. Oh, why don't you solve it yourself, Mycroft? I believe you could. Possibly. But it's a question of digging out details. Give me the details, and I can give you the solution from an armchair.
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Now, when it comes to running about and cross questioning railway guards and lying on one's face with a lens to one's eye, no, no, that's not my nature. Besides,
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your your figure prevents your taking such an undignified position, Very well. See that part of it was, Watson? Sure. Good. I've had a cab waiting outside to take the place where the body was found. I can give you the details on the way. Now Mycroft, who was the official guardian of these famous papers? No less a personage than sir James Walder, a gentleman who's grown gray in the service. His patriotism is beyond suspicion. Bachelor, if I'm not mistaken, lives with his brother. Yes. Here's the house of admiral Sinclair at Markley Square during the whole of the evening when this accident occurred. The admiral vouches for him. He's one of the two who have the only keys to save. And his keep is William O'Neil evening? Right. His key, the key to the building, the key to the room.
Who's the man with the other key? The senior clerk, mister Sydney Johnson. Man of 40, married, silent, morose, with an excellent service record. Any alibi? He too had his key with him and seems to have spent the evening playing a game of drafts with a green grocer around the corner from his lodgings. Of course, he has only the word of this green grocer to make him laugh. Oh, come, come, my dear Mycroft. No class discriminations, please. The word of a green grocer is often just as good as that of an admiral. And what about Cadogan West? He had a good reputation, a bit half headed, but straight and honest. Least everyone thought so. He was next to City Johnson at the office. His duties brought him in the daily personal contact with the plans. No one else ever had the handling of them. Oh, that's perfectly clear. He must have taken Not so fast, Watson. Not so fast.
Who locked them up that night? Mister Sydney Johnson. They were a 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 after he'd murdered West. 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 to open the building in the room as 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 Woolridge, where he is hoping to replace the papers, he is killed and thrown from the train. But the spot where the body was found is considerably past the station for London Bridge, which is the route to Woolridge. 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 the evening clear?
Why buy two theater tickets? Exactly. Furthermore, he actually escorted his fiancee halfway there before he disappeared. A blind. That's what it looks like to me. Why did he 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? Perhaps a ticket would have shown us which station was near the agent's house.
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So the murderer destroyed it. Good, Watson. Very good. And
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yet, I wonder. Well, here's the underground station. The railway authorities have sent a man round to show the exact place where the body was found. You won't change your mind and come with us? You're crawling around that black hole on my hands and knees. Not very likely. Well, I should expect a report on your efforts this evening. Never expect too much, Mycroft. Never expect too much.
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This way, sir. Step right along the tracks. But it isn't safe. Supposing a train should come shooting around that curve. Oh, that's alright, 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. Lying on its face, it was.
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Spooky old place, Holmes? Like the catacombs only without the skeletons. Yeah.
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Anything in his hands when they found him? No, sir. Were they clenched or spread out as if he were protecting himself? No, sir. There was what you might call relax.
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What time did all this happen? Well, sir, the train he was oysters out of, as near as we can figure, passed along here about midnight on Monday. All the carriages have been examined for signs of violence, I suppose. They didn't find nothing, not even the missing ticket. There was a passenger to Allgate on the ordinary train about Other shows we have for you to enjoy at myclassicradio.net.
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40 it was. He said he'd heard heavy thud, like something striking the line just before the train reached this station. But it was so foggy, he said he was blessed if he could see what it was.
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What's the matter? What are you staring at? The curve, Watson.
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What are you? The curve of the rails. What are you? What do you mean? I suppose there aren't any curves as abrupt as this. No. Sir, I can't say as there is. What have curves got to do with it? Oh, an indication. What's merely an indication? Unique. Perfectly unique. And yet why not?
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I don't see any indications of bleeding on the line. No, sir. There wasn't any to speak of. But I understand there was a considerable wound.
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Train. It's it's coming this way. Run to run to your line. The assist would where? Up ahead. There's a place where the train switches off. I want to run. It's just around the curve. Well, we'll never make it. We yes. We will. Faster. Faster. There's a switch up here. Come on. Here comes the train now. We'll make it. We'll make it. Justin. Watson for the love of heaven. You're on the long track.
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Well, that was a narrow escape, Holmes. I I must say my knees are still shaking. Look at the shoulder of my coat where you pull at me. Lucky thing for you that I did. Where are we off to now and then this fog?
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Yes. It's a nice afternoon. Supposedly we pay a few calls. I think sir James Walter claims our first attention. After that, we might drop in on miss Westbury. Miss Westbury? Who's she? She is Cadogan West's fiancee and the last person to see him alive. Holmes, we seem to be going around in circles.
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We've accomplished absolutely nothing so far except to get to to get ourselves nearly annihilated in the underground. After all, it's perfectly obvious that the young man had a quarrel with someone, in all probability to the agent, to whom he sold the papers, and got himself thrown out of the railway 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.
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Cadogan West met his his death elsewhere. The roof of the train? Consider the facts, Watson. A, the curve in the tracks. The body is found at the spot where the train pitches and sways as it comes around the points. B, there's no ticket. C, there were no signs of bleeding on the line because the body had bled elsewhere. Of course. Everything track? I think I can make a fair guess of that, my dear Watson. 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 he looks positively haunted. Oh, pardon me, Colonel Valentine, but can you tell me if, if sir James is at home? Sir James, sir? Sir James is dead. Good heavens. Dead? He died this morning. It's terrible.
Terrible. How did he die? Oh, it's this horrible scandal. My brother, sir, was very sensitive of his honor. He couldn't survive the disgrace to his heart.
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Most appalling development. Holmes?
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I wonder if his death was natural or if the poor fellow killed himself.
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Yes?
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Will you tell miss Westbread that mister Sherlock Holmes would like to see her? Oh, please come in, gentlemen.
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I'm Val Westbury, mister Holmes. I've been expecting you ever since I heard you had taken the case. Please be seated. Well, thank you. Oh, mister Holmes, we we must save his good name. He couldn't have done it. The Duggan was the most shivorous, patriotic gentleman on earth. He he couldn't have done it. He would have cut his right hand off rather than sell a tape secret. But the facts, my dear miss Westbury? I admit I can't explain them. Was he in need of money? No, mister Holmes. His need was simple and his salary very good. He'd saved several hundred pounds.
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We were to be married at the New Year. I see. Have you noticed any signs of mental excitement?
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Well,
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well, that is Oh, come, miss Westbury. Be frank with us. Yes, miss Holmes.
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That night, I I had a feeling that there was something on his mind. Mhmm. Tell us about it. Will you? We were on the way to the theater. It was a foggy night. You remember? We were walking slowly. Our way took us close to his office. Cadogan seemed thoughtful and worried. Darling, what's the matter? You haven't said a word for the last five minutes. Have I said or done something? Of course not, silly. It's just that I've got something
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on my mind. Oh, why not tell me about it? Perhaps I can help. It's no use, Fi. It's too serious for me to talk about, even to you.
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You know, sometimes, Carrie, I feel just the least little bit jealous of that old job of yours when you're cooped up in that building all day. Oh, now you're not going to be jealous of a building.
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Well, not really. But it is funny to think of a husband having secrets he can't tell his wife. Mighty important secrets, I can promise you. There's one in particular that any foreign spy would pay good money to get hold of. How thrilling. 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 melodramatic. There's something been worrying
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me. Hello. What's that? What's what? Over there, that shadow moving along the side of the building. It's a man. So that's it. I always suspect it. What's the matter? You're so excited. What's wrong? Stay here, Violet. There's something I have to find out. Stay here. I waited and waited, but he never returned. Oh, mister Holmes, if you could only save his honor, it meant so much to him. We shall do our best, miss Westbrook. This, this shadow, this man moving along the building, did you see it too? I think I did, mister Holmes. But the night was so foggy, I can't be sure. But there must have been a man, another man. It it couldn't have been Cadogan.
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Surely character goes for something. Let us hope so. Come along, Watson. We must return home. I'm expecting an answer to some telegrams I sent Mycroft earlier this afternoon. We've done enough for one day. Holmes, where have you been all day? You left this morning before I was up. Now you've come home with your towel array, your suit on, and it's as ravenous as a wolf. Yes. I've had a bit of exercise, my dear Watson. Pass me the tongue, will you? You would have done you good to go along. Yes. So what were you doing? Investigating the premises inhabited by foreign spies, known to have been in London on last Monday. Mycroft's in foreign spies known to have been in London on last Monday. Mycroft sent me a list of them. Took a bit of doing too. Climbing walls, breaking into cellars, prowling around rooftops. No? I discovered there was only one residence which had the, proper facilities for disposing of West's body after the murder. Whose residence was that? It belonged to a Hugo Oberstein. The address is 13 Caulfield Gardens, Kensington. The gentleman himself has departed for Europe. Gone, has he? When he took the plans with him, it's it's too late. Not necessarily, Watson. What can we do now? We're going to keep a rendezvous with the gentleman who stole and sold those plans. The assignation will take place at mister Oberstein's house this evening at nine. What the deuce are you talking about? These newspaper clippings, I found them in the drawer of Hugo Oberstein's desk. Read them.
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The Daily Telegraph agony column. The first one says, two conflicts of description must have full report, terms agreed, two payable when goods delivered. Signed, Piero.
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Piero indeed sounds like a Mardi Gras. Now read on, Watson. On. Second goes, matter presses must withdraw our furnace contract completed.
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Piero again. And the last, dated Monday, the day the crime is committed. Monday night after nine, two taps payment in hard cash. I say,
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do you think it was something that that the plans that that he was buying? I'm almost positive. And Puro was Oberstein himself, but we'll find out for certain this evening. I've invited the gentleman who sold the papers to Meters. How? I don't understand. I've started this advertisement in today's Daily Telegraph. Tonight, same hour, same place, two taps, vitally important. Your own safety at stake. Signed, Pierrot, as usual. By George, if he answers that, we we've got him. Unless we're too late. Come along, Watson. There's no time to lose. You can take this pass a package for a change. I'll let I've been carrying it around all day. What's in it? Oh, just a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. Nice equipment for a respectable citizen to be carrying about the streets of London, I must Hey. You know, Watson, there are times when I suspect we aren't quite respectable.
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Here we are. This is Corfeo Gardens. Hey, Kevin. It's so foggy. I shouldn't like to be caught in the act of housebreaking.
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Yeah. Oh, this wall, Watson. With the window, we can usually pry open in the back. Scale that wall? Come on. Hurry up. Hurry up. There's no time to lose. Here. Here. I'll give you a boost. Come on. Upbeat. That's it. Look out. Here I come.
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I I must say, Holmes, you're you're as agile as a cat.
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It's uncanny. This is the window. Light the lantern and give me the gemmy. One, two.
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Mister Holmes, the army gun runs right past here, almost on the level of these windows. I can reach out and touched it. Yes. Quite convenient, wasn't it? Because here the body was placed on the roof of a train.
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Look at this, look at this windowsill. You can see the soot is blurred with the rest of the body. And here, look here. Look. Look. This brown stain is blood.
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Nasty. Let's let's get on with the house.
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Yeah. Well then, come along. Come along. The window's open. Easy. Easy. Don't break the glass. Supposing over the stage, it happened to return home. We must take our chances in this business. Come along, Watson. Come along. Our visitor will expect to be let in by the front door.
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Wish these stairs didn't didn't squeak so.
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09:00. We can expect him at any moment now. You take your position on one side of the door. I'll be on the other so we can pounce on him when he enters. I'll throw my greatcoat over his head. Oh, well, well, I I wish he'd hurry up. Shh, Watson. I wonder what if he doesn't come? There he is. Ready now. I'll open the door. You wanted me? Now you don't. Take that. But but what's a lovely
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Easy, Watson. Easy. Alright, Holmes. I've got him. Well, let's take a look at our catch. Take the other good away, Watson. Hi. Hi.
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It's Colonel Valentine Wark. Walter, said James Brown. Quite. Well, Tom, one of you to save yourself. Why did you steal the Bruce Paddington plans? Who are you? What do you know about this? I am Sherlock Holmes, and I know everything. Oh, this is terrible.
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I'm lost. I didn't realize their importance until my brother killed himself, but I needed the money. I had to have it. Dean offered to give it to me if I let him see the plan. So you took an impression of your brother's key, opened the safe, and procured the papers. Cadogan 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? Then perhaps you better tell us who did murder Cadogan 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 but not that. Very well then. How did it happen? I got the papers, as you've discovered. Made my way through the fog until I reached the door. Once or twice, I fancied I was being followed. I could hear footsteps on the pavement behind me.
Colonel Lauder? Yes. You have the papers? Yes. Let me in quick. I think someone's been following me. Yes. It's me. You can't do this, Valentine. It's treason. Hurry. Do you hear? No. You can't sell the papers, Valentine. I won't let you. These would see. Look out twice. Take that. How do you like that, my impetuous young friend?
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Papa Oversteamy knows how to use a blackjack, hey? You you know who killed him. So? It's murder. I'm gonna get out of it. Oh, no.
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I think different.
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You will come in here if you do not wish to taste a blackjack too. But I I'm That is better. Oh, what can we do? They'll find the body. I have an idea.
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First, I look at those papers. I take the ones I want and the rest 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?
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What a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman. What a pity that he got away with the papers, doctor White. No. But he didn't. Oberstein had left a Paris forwarding address with Colonel Walters. That gentleman 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 did Oberstein swallow the bait? Did he swallow it? He was arrested as he got off the boat at Folkestone. Some weeks later, I learned incidentally that Holmes had spent a day at Windsor Castle and returned with a remarkably fine emerald typing.
When I asked him where he got it, he answered it was just a small present from a certain gracious
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And now, here we are again on our usual visit to doctor Watson. He's waiting for us in his study. A cheerful blaze crackling on the heart. And better leave to see you, mister Manning. Hasn't the weather been atrocious today?
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I was beginning to wonder if you'd be able to get here tonight through all this fog. Yes. It certainly is what you Londoners
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call a regular p super. Indeed.
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It reminds me of the adventure of the missing submarine plans, a case that was solved in the underground. Underground? What you Americans call a a subway. Yes. But what is a solution in a subway got to do with a foggy night? Well, you see, the affair started in weather exactly like this. It was the 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 thickier and and murkier than ever. At first, Holmes had turned his nervous energy to cross indexing his huge reference books. But when, after pushing our breakfast chairs back for the for the fourth morning, we saw the greasy brown swirl still drifting past the windows, Holmes' patience snapped.
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Holmes, if you must pace around in circles, I wish you'd change directions now and then. You're you're making me dizzy. It's inexcusable, Watson. 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 of our lawmakers, Watson, but of our lawbreakers. The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. What makes you so? Well, look out of the window. Ideal weather for committing a crime. The criminal advances on his intended victim practically unseen. He pounces
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and disappears into thin air. There have been numerous petty thefts, I believe. Petty
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thefts, pickpockets, ragamuffins. What's the country coming to?
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Now, if I were a criminal, Watson Oh, I for one would move to America.
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Oh, hello. Hello. Missus Hudson is not getting excited. What's up, I wonder? Yes, missus Hudson. What is it? Oh, it's a man for me. Yes, sir. Very well. Thank you. Oh, well. What's it, sir? Oh, wait until I open it, can't you? Ah, dear me. Me. What next? Most unusual, Watson. Most unusual. What's most unusual, Watson? What's it, sir? Well, it's from my brother, Mycroft. You remember him. He helped us solve the case of the Greek interpreter. He's coming here. Why not? What's so phenomenal about this? Why not? Why not indeed? It's as startling as it would be to meet a tram car coming down a country lane. Yes. Yes. Now I come to think of it. Mycroft is rather like a tram car. His rails lead from his Pell mell lodgings to the Diogenes Club in Whitehall. That's his circle. I wonder what upheaval could have derailed him. Doesn't the telegram explain? It says, must see you about Cadogan West coming at once. Cadogan
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West? Cadogan West? Why, that's the young chapels found dead in the underground on Tuesday morning. I remember reading about it in the papers. Oh? The young man had apparently fallen out of a train and and killed himself. He hadn't been robbed, and there was no reason to suspect violence. Quite an uninteresting case, if I remember correctly.
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It's serious enough to cause Mycroft to alter his habits. Know what? This must be an extraordinary event.
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Do you recall any other facts about the affair? Yes. I come to think that there was one unusual bit about came out of the inquest. They were unable to ascertain at what point he entered the train because his ticket was missing. Strange.
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What articles were found on the body?
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Two pounds fifteen, I believe it was. A checkbook and oh, yes. Yes. There's two dress circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre
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dated for that evening. Theatre tickets, Then it wasn't suicide. A man doesn't procure theater tickets for the evening on which he intends to end his life. Anything else? A small packet
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of technical papers. Technical papers? What kind of technical papers? The new the newspapers didn't say.
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As serious as that. What did the young man do? Where was he employed? He was a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal. Ah, government employed. There we have it, Watson. British government, Woolwich Arsenal, technical papers. That's why Mycroft is involved in this affair. I don't understand. No. I suppose not. Watson, have I ever told you what Mycroft 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 tidiest and most orderly brain of any man alive with a great capacity for storing facts and giving them the proper interpretation. The conclusions of every government department are passed on to him. He's the central exchange, the clearing house. Again and again, his word has decided the national policy. He thinks of nothing else. Nothing else can lure him from his contemplations. And yet he's coming here. Yes. Jupiter is descending on us today. What on earth can we have? Now Watson, that sounds suspiciously like a bad pun.
Ah, here he is, if I'm not mistaken, to speak for himself. Come in. Come in. Hello, Mycroft. What's up? What's up? You look flustered. Most annoying, miss miss Sherlock. Most annoying. You know how I dislike altering my habits. Extremely awkward for me to come away from the office, particularly with Siam in its present state. Oh, dear me. Sit down, Mycroft. Sit down. You know Watson, of course. No. No. No. No. No. I'm trying to find a chair that I can trust to hold, ma'am. I'd better take the sofa if you certainly haven't got any thinner. I've never seen a prime minister so upset. It's a very admiralty. It's buzzing like an upset beehive. Do you know anything about the case? Watson's just been telling what was in the newspapers.
Just what were the technical papers found on the body? Shh. Sherlock, for the love of heaven, not so loud.
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Those papers which a wretched youth had in his pocket were none other than the plans of the Bruce Poddington submarine. Oh? The submarine
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which would completely revolutionize naval warfare, the most important papers in our government archives. Under no circumstances could they be removed from the office. Even the chief constructor of the navy was forced to go to Woolwich if he desired to consult them. And yet we find them in the pockets of a dead junior Tark in the heart of London. Yeah. From an official point of view, it's deplorable, my dear Mycroft. Simply deplorable. You may laugh, Sherlock, but this country won't be safe until we are recovered. But I thought you said that they were found in the pocket of this chap, Cadogan West. 10 papers taken from Woolwich. Seven were found in the pockets of Cadogan West. 3 are still missing, the three essential ones. To recover those three papers is imperative. The peace of Europe depends on them. Nice little problem, Watson. Why did Cadogan 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? Find the answer to those questions, Sherlock, and you'll have done your country an invaluable service. Oh, why don't you solve it yourself, Mycroft? I believe you could. Possibly. But it's a question of digging out details. Give me the details, and I can give you the solution from an armchair.
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Now, when it comes to running about and cross questioning railway guards and lying on one's face with a lens to one's eye, no, no, that's not my nature. Besides,
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your your figure prevents your taking such an undignified position, Very well. See that part of it was, Watson? Sure. Good. I've had a cab waiting outside to take the place where the body was found. I can give you the details on the way. Now Mycroft, who was the official guardian of these famous papers? No less a personage than sir James Walder, a gentleman who's grown gray in the service. His patriotism is beyond suspicion. Bachelor, if I'm not mistaken, lives with his brother. Yes. Here's the house of admiral Sinclair at Markley Square during the whole of the evening when this accident occurred. The admiral vouches for him. He's one of the two who have the only keys to save. And his keep is William O'Neil evening? Right. His key, the key to the building, the key to the room.
Who's the man with the other key? The senior clerk, mister Sydney Johnson. Man of 40, married, silent, morose, with an excellent service record. Any alibi? He too had his key with him and seems to have spent the evening playing a game of drafts with a green grocer around the corner from his lodgings. Of course, he has only the word of this green grocer to make him laugh. Oh, come, come, my dear Mycroft. No class discriminations, please. The word of a green grocer is often just as good as that of an admiral. And what about Cadogan West? He had a good reputation, a bit half headed, but straight and honest. Least everyone thought so. He was next to City Johnson at the office. His duties brought him in the daily personal contact with the plans. No one else ever had the handling of them. Oh, that's perfectly clear. He must have taken Not so fast, Watson. Not so fast.
Who locked them up that night? Mister Sydney Johnson. They were a 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 after he'd murdered West. 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 to open the building in the room as 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 Woolridge, where he is hoping to replace the papers, he is killed and thrown from the train. But the spot where the body was found is considerably past the station for London Bridge, which is the route to Woolridge. 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 the evening clear?
Why buy two theater tickets? Exactly. Furthermore, he actually escorted his fiancee halfway there before he disappeared. A blind. That's what it looks like to me. Why did he 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? Perhaps a ticket would have shown us which station was near the agent's house.
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So the murderer destroyed it. Good, Watson. Very good. And
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yet, I wonder. Well, here's the underground station. The railway authorities have sent a man round to show the exact place where the body was found. You won't change your mind and come with us? You're crawling around that black hole on my hands and knees. Not very likely. Well, I should expect a report on your efforts this evening. Never expect too much, Mycroft. Never expect too much.
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This way, sir. Step right along the tracks. But it isn't safe. Supposing a train should come shooting around that curve. Oh, that's alright, 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. Lying on its face, it was.
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Spooky old place, Holmes? Like the catacombs only without the skeletons. Yeah.
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Anything in his hands when they found him? No, sir. Were they clenched or spread out as if he were protecting himself? No, sir. There was what you might call relax.
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What time did all this happen? Well, sir, the train he was oysters out of, as near as we can figure, passed along here about midnight on Monday. All the carriages have been examined for signs of violence, I suppose. They didn't find nothing, not even the missing ticket. There was a passenger to Allgate on the ordinary train about Other shows we have for you to enjoy at myclassicradio.net.
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40 it was. He said he'd heard heavy thud, like something striking the line just before the train reached this station. But it was so foggy, he said he was blessed if he could see what it was.
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What's the matter? What are you staring at? The curve, Watson.
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What are you? The curve of the rails. What are you? What do you mean? I suppose there aren't any curves as abrupt as this. No. Sir, I can't say as there is. What have curves got to do with it? Oh, an indication. What's merely an indication? Unique. Perfectly unique. And yet why not?
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I don't see any indications of bleeding on the line. No, sir. There wasn't any to speak of. But I understand there was a considerable wound.
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Train. It's it's coming this way. Run to run to your line. The assist would where? Up ahead. There's a place where the train switches off. I want to run. It's just around the curve. Well, we'll never make it. We yes. We will. Faster. Faster. There's a switch up here. Come on. Here comes the train now. We'll make it. We'll make it. Justin. Watson for the love of heaven. You're on the long track.
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Well, that was a narrow escape, Holmes. I I must say my knees are still shaking. Look at the shoulder of my coat where you pull at me. Lucky thing for you that I did. Where are we off to now and then this fog?
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Yes. It's a nice afternoon. Supposedly we pay a few calls. I think sir James Walter claims our first attention. After that, we might drop in on miss Westbury. Miss Westbury? Who's she? She is Cadogan West's fiancee and the last person to see him alive. Holmes, we seem to be going around in circles.
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We've accomplished absolutely nothing so far except to get to to get ourselves nearly annihilated in the underground. After all, it's perfectly obvious that the young man had a quarrel with someone, in all probability to the agent, to whom he sold the papers, and got himself thrown out of the railway 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.
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Cadogan West met his his death elsewhere. The roof of the train? Consider the facts, Watson. A, the curve in the tracks. The body is found at the spot where the train pitches and sways as it comes around the points. B, there's no ticket. C, there were no signs of bleeding on the line because the body had bled elsewhere. Of course. Everything track? I think I can make a fair guess of that, my dear Watson. 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 he looks positively haunted. Oh, pardon me, Colonel Valentine, but can you tell me if, if sir James is at home? Sir James, sir? Sir James is dead. Good heavens. Dead? He died this morning. It's terrible.
Terrible. How did he die? Oh, it's this horrible scandal. My brother, sir, was very sensitive of his honor. He couldn't survive the disgrace to his heart.
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Most appalling development. Holmes?
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I wonder if his death was natural or if the poor fellow killed himself.
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Yes?
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Will you tell miss Westbread that mister Sherlock Holmes would like to see her? Oh, please come in, gentlemen.
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I'm Val Westbury, mister Holmes. I've been expecting you ever since I heard you had taken the case. Please be seated. Well, thank you. Oh, mister Holmes, we we must save his good name. He couldn't have done it. The Duggan was the most shivorous, patriotic gentleman on earth. He he couldn't have done it. He would have cut his right hand off rather than sell a tape secret. But the facts, my dear miss Westbury? I admit I can't explain them. Was he in need of money? No, mister Holmes. His need was simple and his salary very good. He'd saved several hundred pounds.
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We were to be married at the New Year. I see. Have you noticed any signs of mental excitement?
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Well,
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well, that is Oh, come, miss Westbury. Be frank with us. Yes, miss Holmes.
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That night, I I had a feeling that there was something on his mind. Mhmm. Tell us about it. Will you? We were on the way to the theater. It was a foggy night. You remember? We were walking slowly. Our way took us close to his office. Cadogan seemed thoughtful and worried. Darling, what's the matter? You haven't said a word for the last five minutes. Have I said or done something? Of course not, silly. It's just that I've got something
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on my mind. Oh, why not tell me about it? Perhaps I can help. It's no use, Fi. It's too serious for me to talk about, even to you.
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You know, sometimes, Carrie, I feel just the least little bit jealous of that old job of yours when you're cooped up in that building all day. Oh, now you're not going to be jealous of a building.
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Well, not really. But it is funny to think of a husband having secrets he can't tell his wife. Mighty important secrets, I can promise you. There's one in particular that any foreign spy would pay good money to get hold of. How thrilling. 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 melodramatic. There's something been worrying
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me. Hello. What's that? What's what? Over there, that shadow moving along the side of the building. It's a man. So that's it. I always suspect it. What's the matter? You're so excited. What's wrong? Stay here, Violet. There's something I have to find out. Stay here. I waited and waited, but he never returned. Oh, mister Holmes, if you could only save his honor, it meant so much to him. We shall do our best, miss Westbrook. This, this shadow, this man moving along the building, did you see it too? I think I did, mister Holmes. But the night was so foggy, I can't be sure. But there must have been a man, another man. It it couldn't have been Cadogan.
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Surely character goes for something. Let us hope so. Come along, Watson. We must return home. I'm expecting an answer to some telegrams I sent Mycroft earlier this afternoon. We've done enough for one day. Holmes, where have you been all day? You left this morning before I was up. Now you've come home with your towel array, your suit on, and it's as ravenous as a wolf. Yes. I've had a bit of exercise, my dear Watson. Pass me the tongue, will you? You would have done you good to go along. Yes. So what were you doing? Investigating the premises inhabited by foreign spies, known to have been in London on last Monday. Mycroft's in foreign spies known to have been in London on last Monday. Mycroft sent me a list of them. Took a bit of doing too. Climbing walls, breaking into cellars, prowling around rooftops. No? I discovered there was only one residence which had the, proper facilities for disposing of West's body after the murder. Whose residence was that? It belonged to a Hugo Oberstein. The address is 13 Caulfield Gardens, Kensington. The gentleman himself has departed for Europe. Gone, has he? When he took the plans with him, it's it's too late. Not necessarily, Watson. What can we do now? We're going to keep a rendezvous with the gentleman who stole and sold those plans. The assignation will take place at mister Oberstein's house this evening at nine. What the deuce are you talking about? These newspaper clippings, I found them in the drawer of Hugo Oberstein's desk. Read them.
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The Daily Telegraph agony column. The first one says, two conflicts of description must have full report, terms agreed, two payable when goods delivered. Signed, Piero.
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Piero indeed sounds like a Mardi Gras. Now read on, Watson. On. Second goes, matter presses must withdraw our furnace contract completed.
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Piero again. And the last, dated Monday, the day the crime is committed. Monday night after nine, two taps payment in hard cash. I say,
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do you think it was something that that the plans that that he was buying? I'm almost positive. And Puro was Oberstein himself, but we'll find out for certain this evening. I've invited the gentleman who sold the papers to Meters. How? I don't understand. I've started this advertisement in today's Daily Telegraph. Tonight, same hour, same place, two taps, vitally important. Your own safety at stake. Signed, Pierrot, as usual. By George, if he answers that, we we've got him. Unless we're too late. Come along, Watson. There's no time to lose. You can take this pass a package for a change. I'll let I've been carrying it around all day. What's in it? Oh, just a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. Nice equipment for a respectable citizen to be carrying about the streets of London, I must Hey. You know, Watson, there are times when I suspect we aren't quite respectable.
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Here we are. This is Corfeo Gardens. Hey, Kevin. It's so foggy. I shouldn't like to be caught in the act of housebreaking.
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Yeah. Oh, this wall, Watson. With the window, we can usually pry open in the back. Scale that wall? Come on. Hurry up. Hurry up. There's no time to lose. Here. Here. I'll give you a boost. Come on. Upbeat. That's it. Look out. Here I come.
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I I must say, Holmes, you're you're as agile as a cat.
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It's uncanny. This is the window. Light the lantern and give me the gemmy. One, two.
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Mister Holmes, the army gun runs right past here, almost on the level of these windows. I can reach out and touched it. Yes. Quite convenient, wasn't it? Because here the body was placed on the roof of a train.
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Look at this, look at this windowsill. You can see the soot is blurred with the rest of the body. And here, look here. Look. Look. This brown stain is blood.
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Nasty. Let's let's get on with the house.
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Yeah. Well then, come along. Come along. The window's open. Easy. Easy. Don't break the glass. Supposing over the stage, it happened to return home. We must take our chances in this business. Come along, Watson. Come along. Our visitor will expect to be let in by the front door.
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Wish these stairs didn't didn't squeak so.
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09:00. We can expect him at any moment now. You take your position on one side of the door. I'll be on the other so we can pounce on him when he enters. I'll throw my greatcoat over his head. Oh, well, well, I I wish he'd hurry up. Shh, Watson. I wonder what if he doesn't come? There he is. Ready now. I'll open the door. You wanted me? Now you don't. Take that. But but what's a lovely
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Easy, Watson. Easy. Alright, Holmes. I've got him. Well, let's take a look at our catch. Take the other good away, Watson. Hi. Hi.
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It's Colonel Valentine Wark. Walter, said James Brown. Quite. Well, Tom, one of you to save yourself. Why did you steal the Bruce Paddington plans? Who are you? What do you know about this? I am Sherlock Holmes, and I know everything. Oh, this is terrible.
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I'm lost. I didn't realize their importance until my brother killed himself, but I needed the money. I had to have it. Dean offered to give it to me if I let him see the plan. So you took an impression of your brother's key, opened the safe, and procured the papers. Cadogan 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? Then perhaps you better tell us who did murder Cadogan 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 but not that. Very well then. How did it happen? I got the papers, as you've discovered. Made my way through the fog until I reached the door. Once or twice, I fancied I was being followed. I could hear footsteps on the pavement behind me.
Colonel Lauder? Yes. You have the papers? Yes. Let me in quick. I think someone's been following me. Yes. It's me. You can't do this, Valentine. It's treason. Hurry. Do you hear? No. You can't sell the papers, Valentine. I won't let you. These would see. Look out twice. Take that. How do you like that, my impetuous young friend?
[00:28:48] Unknown:
Papa Oversteamy knows how to use a blackjack, hey? You you know who killed him. So? It's murder. I'm gonna get out of it. Oh, no.
[00:28:56] Unknown:
I think different.
[00:28:57] Unknown:
You will come in here if you do not wish to taste a blackjack too. But I I'm That is better. Oh, what can we do? They'll find the body. I have an idea.
[00:29:08] Unknown:
First, I look at those papers. I take the ones I want and the rest 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?
[00:29:31] Unknown:
What a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman. What a pity that he got away with the papers, doctor White. No. But he didn't. Oberstein had left a Paris forwarding address with Colonel Walters. That gentleman 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 did Oberstein swallow the bait? Did he swallow it? He was arrested as he got off the boat at Folkestone. Some weeks later, I learned incidentally that Holmes had spent a day at Windsor Castle and returned with a remarkably fine emerald typing.
When I asked him where he got it, he answered it was just a small present from a certain gracious
[00:30:09] Unknown:
little old lady for whom he'd be Sorry. In the meantime, let us repeat. Watch out for colds. At the first sign of a cold, take Groves bromoquinine tablets. Bromoquinine 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, go right to your druggist and get a package of Groves bromoquinine tablets. Now, doctor 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, doctor Watson? The answer to that question, mister Manning, almost dumped Sherlock Holmes himself.
[00:30:46] Unknown:
Suffice it to say that they were the last words gasped out by a dying man as he lay writhing in agony on the sands of the Sussex Coast.
[00:31:02] Unknown:
You have been listening to a Sherlock Holmes adventure adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, the Bruce Poddington Plans, with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as doctor Watson. The dramatization was by Edith Meiser. This program is presented from Hollywood every week at this same time by the makers of Groves bromoquinine tablets. Quick relief for colds. This is Knox Manning speaking. This is the National Broadcasting Company.
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes Adventure
The Foggy Night and the Missing Plans
Mycroft's Urgent Visit
The Investigation Begins
A Narrow Escape in the Underground
Interviews and Discoveries
The Spy's Rendezvous
The Culprit Revealed
