In this thrilling episode, we delve into a gripping tale set in the vibrant city of Vienna in 1889. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves amidst the grandeur of an aristocratic ball, only to witness a shocking murder. The beautiful Princess Stephanie is shot dead during the debut of a new waltz by the Hungarian composer Janus Horvath. As Holmes and Watson navigate the opulent yet perilous world of Viennese high society, they uncover a web of jealousy, political intrigue, and a mysterious melody that seems to herald death.
As the investigation unfolds, Holmes devises a daring plan to unmask the killer, leading to a dramatic confrontation at a lavish banquet. The episode explores themes of love, obsession, and the haunting power of music, culminating in a surprising revelation about the identity of the murderer. Join us as we unravel the mystery behind the deadly waltz and the tragic events that ensue, showcasing Holmes' unparalleled deductive skills and Watson's steadfast support.
(01:02) Introduction to Sherlock Holmes Adventure
(02:31) A Ball in Vienna
(06:00) The Tragic Shooting
(10:37) The Investigation Begins
(13:12) The Death Waltz Murders
(17:23) A Plan to Catch the Killer
(23:57) The Killer Revealed
(26:47) Conclusion and Reflections
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All set for tonight's story? Yes my darling, all set. Let me put it. It began in Vienna in 1889.
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The old Vienna, bright lights, lovely ladies, and looking music. What were you and the great Sherlock Holmes doing there, Duncan? Bartell,
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what were we doing there? Yes, Were you just taking a trip? Oh, in those early days of our association, we didn't have either the time or the money for trips. No. We were in Vienna with the express command of the emperor Franz Joseph. It was in October, I remember that we arrived in the city. And for several days, we were forced to cool our heels awaiting the imperial pleasure. On one of those idle evenings of the good services of our firm, the chief of police, Count Ruffrano, secured us an invitation to a resplendent ball that was being held at the palace of princess Stephanie von Kramm.
It was an incredibly colorful spectacle, mister Bartel. A string orchestra high in the gallery of the Palace Ballroom played a haunting Strauss waltz. And on the floor below the cream of aristocracy swayed and guided gaily with the local music. I can remember the picture so well, mister Bartell, that Holmes and I stood there talking to the chief of police,
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A color of the scene, is it not gentleman.
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Right, gorgeous, governor father. Must be a real holiday for you and mr Holmes. What makes you say that Watson? Well
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count proffano knows as well as I do that the criminal is not confined to class or environment. Indeed no mister Holmes,
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I can assure you that every guest here tonight has been scrutinized as he entered. Yes, I imagine that many plain clothes men are present in this room now if they come to France. Oh, yes. We take no chances.
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You can't afford to. There's enough jewelry being worn here tonight for a king's ransom, I should say.
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The vaults is finished. Now I can present you to our hostess, Princess von Kram.
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Stephanie, my pigeon. My pigeon must know the princess pretty well. Yes. I'm glad to to see that in Vienna, the profession of criminal detection carries no social stigma. Allow me to present you Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor. Watson,
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the princess Stephanie Van Khan. I'm really honored to Your highness.
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I'm most happy to meet you gentlemen. Permit me to introduce my protege Janus Herrbach, the Hungarian composer. And you do honor. This call tonight, mister Holmes will mark a rare occasion.
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A signal honors to be conferred on her hoar, Martin myself before tonight is through. Next vaults is a new composition of his.
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Tonight will be its debut. Indeed. How very interesting. It is a great honor the princess has compelled on me. A new composition could not possibly be presented under more auspicious circumstances.
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You spoke of an honor in connection with yourself. May I tell them our secret Stephanie? No. I will tell them myself on it all. After your voice has been played, Janusz, and Anitoll and I shall be the first to have the privilege of dancing to it. My father is to make a public announcement. He is to announce my engagement to count Anatole.
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Oh, indeed my congratulations. She was lucky fellow.
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Am I not the luckiest of men? Is she not exquisite? I, the gay man of Vienna, the cavalier who swore that no one woman would ever capture him. I confess a gentleman, I'm in love. Oh, but I pity you. Even the great vaulters of old Vienna could hardly be worthy of this moment.
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Oh, they told you I had born flattery. Oh, come. The vaults is about to begin. I shall see you gentlemen later. Are we the same?
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The orchestra is tuning up there, Robert. I imagine this is a great moment for you. A very frightening one. I assure you, my friend.
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In a few minutes, I shall know whether my new work is to be crowned with success or failure.
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Doctor. Farley who's leading the princess to the center of the floor. The conductor is raising his battle.
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This is your moment, Herbert. Good luck. Pray for me, gentlemen.
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Pray for me. Here they go. The princess and Count Ephrana. They're starting the wars. They make a striking pair, don't they? Here come the other couples out on the floor. Charming. Quite charming. It reminds me of great. Stop, captain. That was all the shots. It's the princess. She's been shot. Come on, Watson.
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Out of the way, please. Out of the way. Come for Frano. What happens? Then we need doctor Watson. See what you can do for her.
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Come for Frano. There's there's nothing I can do, I'm afraid. She was shot through the brain. She died instantly.
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Stephanie is dead.
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Stop that devilish music. Knock all the doors. There's a murderer to to be found. Count of Fano, have you found any clues? One of my men found a revolver.
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It had been thrust into the earth of a potted palm. May I see it please? Of course. Here. Ran into the soft earth. Found it. Count Rafano, your fiance was an extremely beautiful woman. You must have had rivals. Yes, several, But none of them are present tonight. Who will inherit her estate? Her six month old nephew. Who's his guardian? The emperor Franz Joseph himself. No. No, mister Holmes. I know of no obvious motive for someone wishing poor Stephanie did. Perhaps it was a political crime. She was a wealthy aristocrat, no a prominent one. Yes. It's very possible.
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Many nihilist assassins have been active in my country recently. Meanwhile, we have a ballroom full of suspects waiting for us. I was just gonna suggest we went back there. We can't find out very much by staying here in the library. Delicate matter. Almost everyone present tonight has known to me personally. Now may I suggest that you go back to the ballroom and have the male guests file past you. The danger questioning anyone whose evening clothes do not fit perfectly. Oh, don't what's the cut of a man's clothes got to do with this? Anyone invited to such a ball as this would naturally have his own tail lock. I think campufrano, if you found a man who had to hire his costume, he might be an impostor and may well prove to be your assassin.
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Well, mister Holmes, your plan has not been affected so far. You find one Englishman who was unusually badly blessed and what do we discover,
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is an English milord whose luggage was lost on the plane. Yes, and the second suspect proved to be a perfectly respectable Viennese doctor, whose nasty little child would take the last minute sniffing his tailcoat with a pair And the third was poor Horvath, the composer, who cannot yet afford a good dress suit. Well count proffano,
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why not have the next suspect shown in. Yes, of course. Show back, bring in the next man.
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Your name, please. My name is. What do you wish with me?
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Your name was not on the list of invitations. One moment please. Let me see your right hand Groening. You have no idea to touch me. Where did you get these fresh earth stains? Your right thumb is pitted and the nail is full of dirt. What does that poor policeman Not a short while ago you tried to hide your revolver by ramming it into an earth filled flower pot. You know that revolver please, Count Ruffano. It would be easy to compare the samples of earth. It would not be necessary.
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You admit that you murdered the princess tonight, ma'am? Certainly I admit it. Why did you kill her? She was an aristocrat. She was an oppressor of the poor. I'm glad I killed her. One day I and my party will kill all of you. Fill the aristocrats.
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Put down that revolver. Shoot him like the dark, please. No. No. No. No. No. Cabo Pano. Even you can't take the law into your own hands. Why do you not shoot me? I'm not a fatal tyrant. He hasn't taken away short. Nathan Hundley's betrayed me.
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Thank you for stopping my hand just now, doctor. But when he spoke Stephanie that way, I could kill him just as he killed her. Very understandable and powerful sir, but, one that would have ruined your life. My life, now that she is dead, my life is empty. What right do love and beauty have to exist in a world that no longer holds Stephanie? She was all light and life, loveliness. Now but I am hardly displaying my peonies' blood, am I? The murder is caught, thanks to you, mister Holmes, and my life, such as it is, must go on somehow.
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That's how the story began mister Barthel. It began.
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It sounds like the end of a story to me doctor. Far from it my boy. The next day Holmes and I had our interview with his imperial majesty and learned the nature of the services expected of of us. Services that required our leaving the city. And that's why, my boy, we were gone from Vienna for some weeks. We didn't know that during our absence Herr Hovat's waltz, which had had such a tragic debut, was beginning to make a sort of morbid disc. We have had many requests for it. Gladly we will play it, have our own.
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Isn't that the Horvat waltz they are playing? Yes, my dear. And she was walking out of the plot of dance to it. Leah Wallenstein, the actress.
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Beautiful creature. Are you trying to make me jealous,
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ma'am?
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A new ballet and to the music of the Horvath walls. Magnificent.
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Never has Krasnodar dance better.
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Have you ever seen such exquisite pirouettes?
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Six deaths in four weeks, Shoba. All beautiful women and all killed to the music of the Horvat waltz. As a homicidal madman at launch in Vienna, there's only one thing to be done. We must forbid absolutely the playing that waltz by and feel the creep.
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You know all of this, mister Barthel, until we return to Vienna. And then I suppose Sherlock Holmes was drawn into the case again down here. Yes, my boy. Holmes immediately made a close study of the newspaper reports on the tragedies and it was great difficulty that I tore him away from his investigations to attend the reception at which the emperor was to thank us for our services on the mission that we just completed. As we arrived at the Imperial Palace, almost the first person we ran into was the Hungarian composer, Janus
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Doctor. Watson, you have heard of the tragedy 'connected with my waltz'. Yes, we have indeed, we have indeed. I was making a close study of the newspaper reports on them just before I came here. You must do something mr. Holmes. People will hardly listen to other music. They want my waltz but that is forbidden. I'm losing a reputation and a fortune while that waltz remains unplanned. Or perhaps Herr Horvath,
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you are laying an excellent foundation for a later reputation and fortune. What do you mean? All this publicity, however distasteful to you at the moment, must in the long run prove invaluable.
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Ah, there you are my dear Count of Fano. Mr. Holmes, Doctor. Watson, I'm glad to see you back in Vienna. You've heard of the murders? Yes, we were discussing them. I need your help again my good friend. For over a month now the murder has been at large and I cannot seem to get on this stage. The first Koran. What have you done with him? Released him. I released him? Great Scott. Why? At the hearing it was obvious the man was an egomaniac. He boasted of the murder of Stephanie of Panthery out of pure vanity. The liberal newspaper editors made quite an issue of the case. They got pressure to bear and we had to let him go. Confound it. I wish I hadn't left Vienna. Well, the fellow is at large again country foreigner. It's pretty obvious that he's the murderer of the other women too. On the contrary doctor, he was in prison until yesterday.
The last of the murders was committed three days ago. Oh, the consistently your highness French yourself.
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Good evening, gentlemen. Your highness. Very. Your highness. Well, well, I think we have very distinguished company tonight. Not only the masterful Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, doctor Vozi, our English friends that we are honoring, but I see that we have an distinguished representative from our Hungarian empire. We are not far back. We've worked a success, I'm told, as a breed of composer for whom Vienna is famous. Your imperial highness is most kind. There's a bifold in here. It's in excellent condition, I am told. Will you not play as part of your composition there, all that? I shall be most honored, your highness. Sit down and then commence this song.
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And so What shall I play, your imperial highness? Finish to you, wish, old man. Then send you wish. Thank you, your hand. With your permission, I choose to play.
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Great heavens.
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He's playing the death balls. On your guard, Watson. Even in the imperial palace itself, this twirling tune may invoke murder.
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Doctor Watson, you certainly left me hanging on a cliff that time. You broke off your story just as the Hungarian composer started to play his ill fated waltz to the emperor Franz Joseph.
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What happened? At the time my boy fortunately nothing happened. Jehovah completed his composition without apparent incident, and shortly afterwards we attended a banquet that was given in our honor. A banquet that concluded with a rather curious ceremony, which the emperor presented I remember, I remember, Holmes and I, together with Count of Frano, left the royal chambers and started to descend the spiral staircase leading to the main hall.
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You, greatly honored tonight, mister Holmes. I've only known his imperial highness to make three such presentations before and they were all to my own country. You might have made another one.
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Emperor was most kind. I can't help feeling that he over evaluated myself. You're being unusually modest, Holmes. Perhaps because I feel that my visit here is incomplete until I've solved the death whilst murders. I hope you'll be able to stay in Vienna long enough to do that. I confess I am at my wit's end. I've been giving the matter a great deal of fraud count prothano. I have a plan for trapping the killer. It's in rather an embryonic stage at the moment but over a few pipes at the hotel tonight I expect you to fill up it thoroughly. I shall call at your office in the morning and explain it to you. I shall be reading your visit eagerly.
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One more of these murders in a newspaper outcry might become so loud that I should have to resign my post as chief of police. When Hovbert made that daring gesture and pledged the death waltz tonight it proved one thing, it's not infallible.
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The death of a beautiful woman doesn't always follow the playing of the melody. Very true doctor but What if Yes, sir. It's like a match with you.
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There's a figure here slumped on the landing.
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Where It's not a body of a girl.
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A very beautiful girl too. Dropped through the forehead. You were wrong, Watson.
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The death waltz is infallible but I swear to you that the killer has struck for the last time.
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How are you on my dear counsel Fano? Yes, I followed the instructions she gave me this morning, mister Holmes. Chain bounces at the moment as smart as I've gotten Vienna.
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I preserved the best table for you, and I can buy the biggest that you named. A strangely assorted couple, I must say. Janus Horvath, composer and that Groeningfellow, the one that admitted shooting your your fiance, Catrifana.
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As much as I could do to keep my hands off him when he arrived here, doctor. But mister Holmes insisted that I ask him. Just to say my wish he would tell me his plan. I'm completely in the dark.
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Dark. I can sympathize with you, Caprifana. Holmes never tells me a thing either. Yes, John, I guess shall we? And in a very few minutes, I'm sure that my, plan will be perfectly apparent.
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Good evening, Harry Holbert. Oh, good evening, mister Fultz. Doctor Watts. How do you do,
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And how are you tonight, Grunin? Angry at having to come here against my will. My party does not approve of these aristocratic paddy pigsties, but counsellor O'Farno informed me that if I did not come here tonight, I could expect to find myself back in prison.
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How could I resist such a persuasive invitation? Hi, here comes the third guest proud table. I met with your teller a few hours ago. Miss Bradford, I am so glad that you were able to come. Hello mister Holmes, I didn't know this was going to be a party but I couldn't be happier. Allow me to present to you, confofano, Doctor Watson, Herr Horvath, Herr Groening, Miss Barbara Banks from The United States Of America. Oh, I wish I knew what you're up to. And how can a young American girl afford to come to the enemy, I ask? Of course you can ask. My father made a lot of money and he wanted me to have the advantages he never had. Your father made money because he ground the faces of the poor.
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My father never ground a poor face in his life. He was a capitalist. I spit on him. Oh, that's rather unfriendly. And also geographically speaking something of a problem. You see, he's living in Wyoming. You make fun of me. Only because you made fun of me. Mr. Holmes, I did as you asked me. I'm very grateful, miss Banks. The orchestra leader didn't want to play it. He seemed scared, but I waved a lot of money in front of him and I promised to pay the fine as well. Splendid. Great. Got it. See it all now. So do I you persuaded miss Banks to bribe the orchestra leader to play? My waltz.
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My forbidden waltz. Yes, here hold on. I felt that if the request came from a young American it might seem quite reasonable. Particularly if the requests were accompanied by American talents ground out of the faces of the poor. You are being unpleasant to me, aren't you?
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I'm
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playing it to a waltz however,
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the death waltz. Mister Holmes, this is against the law. The whole waltz is forbidden by imperial decree. True. Nonetheless, my dear can't I implore you not to arrest the orchestra leader until after the waltz is completed. In which case, since I requested it and it's still playing, I'd like a partner. Will, will you dance with me, count inferno?
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I'm sorry, miss Paintsbury, for this melody I shall never dance again. Oh, well, how about you, doctor?
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Watch? Well, I'm afraid I'm not as light on my feet as I used to be. In any case, I was never much of a hand at the wall. See,
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focus more on my line. Dear me, I'm getting an inferiority complex. Please do not miss banks. You'll observe the general public seems singularly unwilling to dance too. Not one couple has ventured onto the floor. How can you blame them? The ones with Hovac meaning death.
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How can you blame them? I'm not afraid. After all her Hovac, it's your own music. I'll dance with you.
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You're most kind miss banks and courageous. But to be a partner of the only woman on the floor would mean ruin. An admission of failure. My third refusal, I'm a wallflower. No my dear miss banks, the aristocrats
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are afraid. But I plain simple groaning.
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I will dance with you miss brilliance. Oh bless you here groaning. And I assure you my father does not grind the faces of the poor. He does grind the faces of the poor. Stop or it's suicide. I think not there, horrid. I think so. And I'll not stay here to watch
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you. Where the devil is he off to? You're not very doctor. I should keep an eye on him. Yes. And we'll keep an eye on both of them. Come on, Watson. Has deserted his trail and has slipped behind one of those pillows. Good lord. He's he's drawing a revolver. Thank you, Watson. He's our man. Put down that revolver, Cantrell. Put it down, I say. He's turning it on himself. Cantrell.
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I still can't believe it, Holmes. Not the fact that countofranos blew his brains out but the fact that he was a murderer.
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Yes, I was slow to believe it too old chap and I blame myself for consequence. Two things should have been instantly apparent about the madman who killed beautiful women when he heard the Horvath waltz. Firstly, he must have had some motivation which drove him to such a match. Secondly, he must have carried a revolver with him at all times since he was invariably armed when the occasion presented itself. Exactly. That factor made me think of the police official. Then of course I saw of Fraunno as motivation. He loved the princess Stephanie dearly. Her death in his arms was a psychological shock that was
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more than his mentality could stand. When he heard that music it reminded him of the dead princess, forced him to
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kill. That's right, no problem. You will recall that, when he said to us after his fiancee's death, what right do love and beauty have to exist in a world that no longer holds Stephanie. When he heard the music he couldn't bear to think that other loveliness existed and so, he destroyed it. But who killed the princess Stephanie? The man who was first arrested for it, her gurney. He admitted it after little persuasion when the police arrived, taken back to prison in the carriage they just took out for Frano's body. Shocking to think that seven innocent women have been murdered before this case is solved. Yes, the fact that will be a constant reproach to me, I assure you. Oh, I didn't mean that my dear fellow. We weren't even in Vienna when fire when the killings took place. Hello, hello, here comes miss banks. Mr. Holmes, what happened to that funny little man who danced with me? That groaning?
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He went to prison miss banks, he was a murderer. Well I must say this is a strange kind of a party you asked me to mister Holmes. One of the guests blows his brains out, and the other, the only man who dances with me turns out to be a murderer. Oh, I see now my father sent me to Europe. Anything like this could never happen in Wyoming.
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Look look look The hell that's walking out in in front of the orchestra. Ladies and gentlemen.
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Listen.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I almost thought of it, wish to assure you upon the word of the great English detective, Sherlock Holmes, that never again for my new world speed and accompaniment from murder. Henceforth, this melody will be for life and love and laughter. I have ordered the bottle of the finest potash than to each of your tables. Raise your glasses and pledge me as I now conduct my walk. Free applause from the kiss of death.
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Say doctor, I, I really like that story. That was a baffle.
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Wasn't it a highly placed police official, the last person in the world you think you'll do murder? I must confess I wasn't of so much help to to Holmes in solving that case. Oh, don't let that worry you doctor.
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After all, Holmes almost missed solving it himself.
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But it certainly was one of the most interesting cases that I was ever connected with. I know what you mean.
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Petri wine brings you Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that took time to bring you good wine, invites you to listen to Doctor. Watson as he tells you another exciting adventure he shared with his old friend, that master detective Sherlock Holmes. And as for me, well I'm going to tell you about a swell idea. The idea of serving petri california sherry before dinner. Tomorrow night, just before dinner, instead of that last minute rush, take it easy. Pour yourself a glass of petri sherry. Now if you'll do that just once, I wouldn't have to say another word about petri sherry, you'd be a customer for life.
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All set for tonight's story? Yes my darling, all set. Let me put it. It began in Vienna in 1889.
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The old Vienna, bright lights, lovely ladies, and looking music. What were you and the great Sherlock Holmes doing there, Duncan? Bartell,
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what were we doing there? Yes, Were you just taking a trip? Oh, in those early days of our association, we didn't have either the time or the money for trips. No. We were in Vienna with the express command of the emperor Franz Joseph. It was in October, I remember that we arrived in the city. And for several days, we were forced to cool our heels awaiting the imperial pleasure. On one of those idle evenings of the good services of our firm, the chief of police, Count Ruffrano, secured us an invitation to a resplendent ball that was being held at the palace of princess Stephanie von Kramm.
It was an incredibly colorful spectacle, mister Bartel. A string orchestra high in the gallery of the Palace Ballroom played a haunting Strauss waltz. And on the floor below the cream of aristocracy swayed and guided gaily with the local music. I can remember the picture so well, mister Bartell, that Holmes and I stood there talking to the chief of police,
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A color of the scene, is it not gentleman.
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Right, gorgeous, governor father. Must be a real holiday for you and mr Holmes. What makes you say that Watson? Well
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count proffano knows as well as I do that the criminal is not confined to class or environment. Indeed no mister Holmes,
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I can assure you that every guest here tonight has been scrutinized as he entered. Yes, I imagine that many plain clothes men are present in this room now if they come to France. Oh, yes. We take no chances.
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You can't afford to. There's enough jewelry being worn here tonight for a king's ransom, I should say.
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The vaults is finished. Now I can present you to our hostess, Princess von Kram.
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Stephanie, my pigeon. My pigeon must know the princess pretty well. Yes. I'm glad to to see that in Vienna, the profession of criminal detection carries no social stigma. Allow me to present you Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor. Watson,
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the princess Stephanie Van Khan. I'm really honored to Your highness.
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I'm most happy to meet you gentlemen. Permit me to introduce my protege Janus Herrbach, the Hungarian composer. And you do honor. This call tonight, mister Holmes will mark a rare occasion.
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A signal honors to be conferred on her hoar, Martin myself before tonight is through. Next vaults is a new composition of his.
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Tonight will be its debut. Indeed. How very interesting. It is a great honor the princess has compelled on me. A new composition could not possibly be presented under more auspicious circumstances.
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You spoke of an honor in connection with yourself. May I tell them our secret Stephanie? No. I will tell them myself on it all. After your voice has been played, Janusz, and Anitoll and I shall be the first to have the privilege of dancing to it. My father is to make a public announcement. He is to announce my engagement to count Anatole.
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Oh, indeed my congratulations. She was lucky fellow.
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Am I not the luckiest of men? Is she not exquisite? I, the gay man of Vienna, the cavalier who swore that no one woman would ever capture him. I confess a gentleman, I'm in love. Oh, but I pity you. Even the great vaulters of old Vienna could hardly be worthy of this moment.
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Oh, they told you I had born flattery. Oh, come. The vaults is about to begin. I shall see you gentlemen later. Are we the same?
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The orchestra is tuning up there, Robert. I imagine this is a great moment for you. A very frightening one. I assure you, my friend.
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In a few minutes, I shall know whether my new work is to be crowned with success or failure.
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Doctor. Farley who's leading the princess to the center of the floor. The conductor is raising his battle.
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This is your moment, Herbert. Good luck. Pray for me, gentlemen.
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Pray for me. Here they go. The princess and Count Ephrana. They're starting the wars. They make a striking pair, don't they? Here come the other couples out on the floor. Charming. Quite charming. It reminds me of great. Stop, captain. That was all the shots. It's the princess. She's been shot. Come on, Watson.
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Out of the way, please. Out of the way. Come for Frano. What happens? Then we need doctor Watson. See what you can do for her.
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Come for Frano. There's there's nothing I can do, I'm afraid. She was shot through the brain. She died instantly.
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Stephanie is dead.
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Stop that devilish music. Knock all the doors. There's a murderer to to be found. Count of Fano, have you found any clues? One of my men found a revolver.
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It had been thrust into the earth of a potted palm. May I see it please? Of course. Here. Ran into the soft earth. Found it. Count Rafano, your fiance was an extremely beautiful woman. You must have had rivals. Yes, several, But none of them are present tonight. Who will inherit her estate? Her six month old nephew. Who's his guardian? The emperor Franz Joseph himself. No. No, mister Holmes. I know of no obvious motive for someone wishing poor Stephanie did. Perhaps it was a political crime. She was a wealthy aristocrat, no a prominent one. Yes. It's very possible.
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Many nihilist assassins have been active in my country recently. Meanwhile, we have a ballroom full of suspects waiting for us. I was just gonna suggest we went back there. We can't find out very much by staying here in the library. Delicate matter. Almost everyone present tonight has known to me personally. Now may I suggest that you go back to the ballroom and have the male guests file past you. The danger questioning anyone whose evening clothes do not fit perfectly. Oh, don't what's the cut of a man's clothes got to do with this? Anyone invited to such a ball as this would naturally have his own tail lock. I think campufrano, if you found a man who had to hire his costume, he might be an impostor and may well prove to be your assassin.
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Well, mister Holmes, your plan has not been affected so far. You find one Englishman who was unusually badly blessed and what do we discover,
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is an English milord whose luggage was lost on the plane. Yes, and the second suspect proved to be a perfectly respectable Viennese doctor, whose nasty little child would take the last minute sniffing his tailcoat with a pair And the third was poor Horvath, the composer, who cannot yet afford a good dress suit. Well count proffano,
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why not have the next suspect shown in. Yes, of course. Show back, bring in the next man.
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Your name, please. My name is. What do you wish with me?
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Your name was not on the list of invitations. One moment please. Let me see your right hand Groening. You have no idea to touch me. Where did you get these fresh earth stains? Your right thumb is pitted and the nail is full of dirt. What does that poor policeman Not a short while ago you tried to hide your revolver by ramming it into an earth filled flower pot. You know that revolver please, Count Ruffano. It would be easy to compare the samples of earth. It would not be necessary.
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You admit that you murdered the princess tonight, ma'am? Certainly I admit it. Why did you kill her? She was an aristocrat. She was an oppressor of the poor. I'm glad I killed her. One day I and my party will kill all of you. Fill the aristocrats.
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Put down that revolver. Shoot him like the dark, please. No. No. No. No. No. Cabo Pano. Even you can't take the law into your own hands. Why do you not shoot me? I'm not a fatal tyrant. He hasn't taken away short. Nathan Hundley's betrayed me.
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Thank you for stopping my hand just now, doctor. But when he spoke Stephanie that way, I could kill him just as he killed her. Very understandable and powerful sir, but, one that would have ruined your life. My life, now that she is dead, my life is empty. What right do love and beauty have to exist in a world that no longer holds Stephanie? She was all light and life, loveliness. Now but I am hardly displaying my peonies' blood, am I? The murder is caught, thanks to you, mister Holmes, and my life, such as it is, must go on somehow.
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That's how the story began mister Barthel. It began.
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It sounds like the end of a story to me doctor. Far from it my boy. The next day Holmes and I had our interview with his imperial majesty and learned the nature of the services expected of of us. Services that required our leaving the city. And that's why, my boy, we were gone from Vienna for some weeks. We didn't know that during our absence Herr Hovat's waltz, which had had such a tragic debut, was beginning to make a sort of morbid disc. We have had many requests for it. Gladly we will play it, have our own.
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Isn't that the Horvat waltz they are playing? Yes, my dear. And she was walking out of the plot of dance to it. Leah Wallenstein, the actress.
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Beautiful creature. Are you trying to make me jealous,
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ma'am?
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A new ballet and to the music of the Horvath walls. Magnificent.
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Never has Krasnodar dance better.
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Have you ever seen such exquisite pirouettes?
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Six deaths in four weeks, Shoba. All beautiful women and all killed to the music of the Horvat waltz. As a homicidal madman at launch in Vienna, there's only one thing to be done. We must forbid absolutely the playing that waltz by and feel the creep.
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You know all of this, mister Barthel, until we return to Vienna. And then I suppose Sherlock Holmes was drawn into the case again down here. Yes, my boy. Holmes immediately made a close study of the newspaper reports on the tragedies and it was great difficulty that I tore him away from his investigations to attend the reception at which the emperor was to thank us for our services on the mission that we just completed. As we arrived at the Imperial Palace, almost the first person we ran into was the Hungarian composer, Janus
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Doctor. Watson, you have heard of the tragedy 'connected with my waltz'. Yes, we have indeed, we have indeed. I was making a close study of the newspaper reports on them just before I came here. You must do something mr. Holmes. People will hardly listen to other music. They want my waltz but that is forbidden. I'm losing a reputation and a fortune while that waltz remains unplanned. Or perhaps Herr Horvath,
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you are laying an excellent foundation for a later reputation and fortune. What do you mean? All this publicity, however distasteful to you at the moment, must in the long run prove invaluable.
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Ah, there you are my dear Count of Fano. Mr. Holmes, Doctor. Watson, I'm glad to see you back in Vienna. You've heard of the murders? Yes, we were discussing them. I need your help again my good friend. For over a month now the murder has been at large and I cannot seem to get on this stage. The first Koran. What have you done with him? Released him. I released him? Great Scott. Why? At the hearing it was obvious the man was an egomaniac. He boasted of the murder of Stephanie of Panthery out of pure vanity. The liberal newspaper editors made quite an issue of the case. They got pressure to bear and we had to let him go. Confound it. I wish I hadn't left Vienna. Well, the fellow is at large again country foreigner. It's pretty obvious that he's the murderer of the other women too. On the contrary doctor, he was in prison until yesterday.
The last of the murders was committed three days ago. Oh, the consistently your highness French yourself.
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Good evening, gentlemen. Your highness. Very. Your highness. Well, well, I think we have very distinguished company tonight. Not only the masterful Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, doctor Vozi, our English friends that we are honoring, but I see that we have an distinguished representative from our Hungarian empire. We are not far back. We've worked a success, I'm told, as a breed of composer for whom Vienna is famous. Your imperial highness is most kind. There's a bifold in here. It's in excellent condition, I am told. Will you not play as part of your composition there, all that? I shall be most honored, your highness. Sit down and then commence this song.
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And so What shall I play, your imperial highness? Finish to you, wish, old man. Then send you wish. Thank you, your hand. With your permission, I choose to play.
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Great heavens.
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He's playing the death balls. On your guard, Watson. Even in the imperial palace itself, this twirling tune may invoke murder.
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Doctor Watson, you certainly left me hanging on a cliff that time. You broke off your story just as the Hungarian composer started to play his ill fated waltz to the emperor Franz Joseph.
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What happened? At the time my boy fortunately nothing happened. Jehovah completed his composition without apparent incident, and shortly afterwards we attended a banquet that was given in our honor. A banquet that concluded with a rather curious ceremony, which the emperor presented I remember, I remember, Holmes and I, together with Count of Frano, left the royal chambers and started to descend the spiral staircase leading to the main hall.
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You, greatly honored tonight, mister Holmes. I've only known his imperial highness to make three such presentations before and they were all to my own country. You might have made another one.
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Emperor was most kind. I can't help feeling that he over evaluated myself. You're being unusually modest, Holmes. Perhaps because I feel that my visit here is incomplete until I've solved the death whilst murders. I hope you'll be able to stay in Vienna long enough to do that. I confess I am at my wit's end. I've been giving the matter a great deal of fraud count prothano. I have a plan for trapping the killer. It's in rather an embryonic stage at the moment but over a few pipes at the hotel tonight I expect you to fill up it thoroughly. I shall call at your office in the morning and explain it to you. I shall be reading your visit eagerly.
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One more of these murders in a newspaper outcry might become so loud that I should have to resign my post as chief of police. When Hovbert made that daring gesture and pledged the death waltz tonight it proved one thing, it's not infallible.
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The death of a beautiful woman doesn't always follow the playing of the melody. Very true doctor but What if Yes, sir. It's like a match with you.
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There's a figure here slumped on the landing.
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Where It's not a body of a girl.
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A very beautiful girl too. Dropped through the forehead. You were wrong, Watson.
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The death waltz is infallible but I swear to you that the killer has struck for the last time.
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How are you on my dear counsel Fano? Yes, I followed the instructions she gave me this morning, mister Holmes. Chain bounces at the moment as smart as I've gotten Vienna.
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I preserved the best table for you, and I can buy the biggest that you named. A strangely assorted couple, I must say. Janus Horvath, composer and that Groeningfellow, the one that admitted shooting your your fiance, Catrifana.
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As much as I could do to keep my hands off him when he arrived here, doctor. But mister Holmes insisted that I ask him. Just to say my wish he would tell me his plan. I'm completely in the dark.
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Dark. I can sympathize with you, Caprifana. Holmes never tells me a thing either. Yes, John, I guess shall we? And in a very few minutes, I'm sure that my, plan will be perfectly apparent.
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Good evening, Harry Holbert. Oh, good evening, mister Fultz. Doctor Watts. How do you do,
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And how are you tonight, Grunin? Angry at having to come here against my will. My party does not approve of these aristocratic paddy pigsties, but counsellor O'Farno informed me that if I did not come here tonight, I could expect to find myself back in prison.
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How could I resist such a persuasive invitation? Hi, here comes the third guest proud table. I met with your teller a few hours ago. Miss Bradford, I am so glad that you were able to come. Hello mister Holmes, I didn't know this was going to be a party but I couldn't be happier. Allow me to present to you, confofano, Doctor Watson, Herr Horvath, Herr Groening, Miss Barbara Banks from The United States Of America. Oh, I wish I knew what you're up to. And how can a young American girl afford to come to the enemy, I ask? Of course you can ask. My father made a lot of money and he wanted me to have the advantages he never had. Your father made money because he ground the faces of the poor.
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My father never ground a poor face in his life. He was a capitalist. I spit on him. Oh, that's rather unfriendly. And also geographically speaking something of a problem. You see, he's living in Wyoming. You make fun of me. Only because you made fun of me. Mr. Holmes, I did as you asked me. I'm very grateful, miss Banks. The orchestra leader didn't want to play it. He seemed scared, but I waved a lot of money in front of him and I promised to pay the fine as well. Splendid. Great. Got it. See it all now. So do I you persuaded miss Banks to bribe the orchestra leader to play? My waltz.
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My forbidden waltz. Yes, here hold on. I felt that if the request came from a young American it might seem quite reasonable. Particularly if the requests were accompanied by American talents ground out of the faces of the poor. You are being unpleasant to me, aren't you?
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I'm
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playing it to a waltz however,
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the death waltz. Mister Holmes, this is against the law. The whole waltz is forbidden by imperial decree. True. Nonetheless, my dear can't I implore you not to arrest the orchestra leader until after the waltz is completed. In which case, since I requested it and it's still playing, I'd like a partner. Will, will you dance with me, count inferno?
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I'm sorry, miss Paintsbury, for this melody I shall never dance again. Oh, well, how about you, doctor?
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Watch? Well, I'm afraid I'm not as light on my feet as I used to be. In any case, I was never much of a hand at the wall. See,
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focus more on my line. Dear me, I'm getting an inferiority complex. Please do not miss banks. You'll observe the general public seems singularly unwilling to dance too. Not one couple has ventured onto the floor. How can you blame them? The ones with Hovac meaning death.
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How can you blame them? I'm not afraid. After all her Hovac, it's your own music. I'll dance with you.
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You're most kind miss banks and courageous. But to be a partner of the only woman on the floor would mean ruin. An admission of failure. My third refusal, I'm a wallflower. No my dear miss banks, the aristocrats
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are afraid. But I plain simple groaning.
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I will dance with you miss brilliance. Oh bless you here groaning. And I assure you my father does not grind the faces of the poor. He does grind the faces of the poor. Stop or it's suicide. I think not there, horrid. I think so. And I'll not stay here to watch
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you. Where the devil is he off to? You're not very doctor. I should keep an eye on him. Yes. And we'll keep an eye on both of them. Come on, Watson. Has deserted his trail and has slipped behind one of those pillows. Good lord. He's he's drawing a revolver. Thank you, Watson. He's our man. Put down that revolver, Cantrell. Put it down, I say. He's turning it on himself. Cantrell.
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I still can't believe it, Holmes. Not the fact that countofranos blew his brains out but the fact that he was a murderer.
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Yes, I was slow to believe it too old chap and I blame myself for consequence. Two things should have been instantly apparent about the madman who killed beautiful women when he heard the Horvath waltz. Firstly, he must have had some motivation which drove him to such a match. Secondly, he must have carried a revolver with him at all times since he was invariably armed when the occasion presented itself. Exactly. That factor made me think of the police official. Then of course I saw of Fraunno as motivation. He loved the princess Stephanie dearly. Her death in his arms was a psychological shock that was
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more than his mentality could stand. When he heard that music it reminded him of the dead princess, forced him to
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kill. That's right, no problem. You will recall that, when he said to us after his fiancee's death, what right do love and beauty have to exist in a world that no longer holds Stephanie. When he heard the music he couldn't bear to think that other loveliness existed and so, he destroyed it. But who killed the princess Stephanie? The man who was first arrested for it, her gurney. He admitted it after little persuasion when the police arrived, taken back to prison in the carriage they just took out for Frano's body. Shocking to think that seven innocent women have been murdered before this case is solved. Yes, the fact that will be a constant reproach to me, I assure you. Oh, I didn't mean that my dear fellow. We weren't even in Vienna when fire when the killings took place. Hello, hello, here comes miss banks. Mr. Holmes, what happened to that funny little man who danced with me? That groaning?
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He went to prison miss banks, he was a murderer. Well I must say this is a strange kind of a party you asked me to mister Holmes. One of the guests blows his brains out, and the other, the only man who dances with me turns out to be a murderer. Oh, I see now my father sent me to Europe. Anything like this could never happen in Wyoming.
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Look look look The hell that's walking out in in front of the orchestra. Ladies and gentlemen.
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Listen.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I almost thought of it, wish to assure you upon the word of the great English detective, Sherlock Holmes, that never again for my new world speed and accompaniment from murder. Henceforth, this melody will be for life and love and laughter. I have ordered the bottle of the finest potash than to each of your tables. Raise your glasses and pledge me as I now conduct my walk. Free applause from the kiss of death.
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Say doctor, I, I really like that story. That was a baffle.
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Wasn't it a highly placed police official, the last person in the world you think you'll do murder? I must confess I wasn't of so much help to to Holmes in solving that case. Oh, don't let that worry you doctor.
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After all, Holmes almost missed solving it himself.
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But it certainly was one of the most interesting cases that I was ever connected with. I know what you mean.
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