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to The Great Detectives of Old Tom

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Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is

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your host, Adam Graham. Well,

1:18

this is a key episode. As

1:20

I said, the episodes from

1:22

the early to mid -1930s are

1:25

kind of sparse, but

1:27

we did manage to track

1:30

down this episode from

1:32

1934. This episode

1:34

features a change in

1:36

personnel. Sherlock

1:39

Holmes for, or for more

1:41

than 100 episodes actually, was

1:43

Richard Gordon. Well, this

1:45

is a new season, still the

1:47

same sponsor, but we have a

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new Sherlock Holmes, the

1:52

change to

1:54

Louis Hector. Hector,

1:57

I'll be honest, is

1:59

not exactly my favorite

2:01

Holmes. In

2:04

fact, he doesn't seem to

2:06

have quite the right voice

2:08

for it, but he's Sherlock

2:10

Holmes, and I think

2:12

we have a total

2:14

of three Louis Hector shows,

2:16

maybe four. We'll

2:19

have to see how things

2:21

play out. But this

2:23

episode is not from the

2:25

Sherlock Holmes canon. It

2:27

is called the Hebraic breastplate.

2:30

And by the way, I mentioned the big

2:32

gap in episodes. The

2:34

last episode we played

2:36

was from February of 1933.

2:39

This one is from

2:41

November of 1934. So

2:44

a huge gap of episodes. There

2:46

was actually a point where the

2:48

show went off the air after

2:50

June 1933 and our sponsors, George

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get into today's case, the

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Hebraic breastplate. Beginning

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of the famous stories of Sir Arthur

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how many of our listeners will agree,

3:58

but for us this is a red -letter

4:00

day because it marks the beginning of another

4:02

series of visits to the comfortable, fire -lit

4:05

study of Dr. Watson. He

4:07

hears his hair -raising reminiscences of

4:09

Sherlock Holmes' adventures and to drink

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his delicious G. Washington Coffee. Dr.

4:14

Watson was not with us last winter

4:16

because he was taking what he called his

4:18

sabbatical year. It seemed that

4:20

he spent a great deal of that

4:22

time with a certain travel worn and

4:25

battered dispatch box in the vaults of

4:27

Hulking Company, private bankers in Sharon

4:29

Cross. Out of it,

4:31

he has an earth paper containing notes

4:33

from Sherlock Holmes' cases which have

4:35

not been told previously on the air.

4:39

So now we throw down

4:41

the quiet, three -lined street. Yes.

4:45

Here's the house with its dark curtain. We

4:48

turn in the new little path. The

4:51

familiar door with its brightly polished

4:53

brass knocker opens to welcome us. And

4:56

we find ourselves in Dr.

4:58

Watson's well -remembered bedroom. Easy

5:00

chairs, a rose

5:02

-worn book, a kettle

5:04

steaming causally on the heart. Everything's

5:07

just the same. Even the

5:09

old doctor? Well, well,

5:11

well, this is like old times,

5:14

isn't it, Mr. Bell? Yes, thank

5:16

you. I have no idea how

5:18

I've missed these little sessions of

5:20

ours to here. What

5:22

more appropriate way to celebrate

5:24

our reunion than by preparing a

5:26

cup of our old favorite

5:28

G. Washington coffee. That's what I've

5:30

been looking for with you,

5:32

Dr. Watson. Ah, so you

5:34

have everything ready to make it?

5:36

No, it was very easy. The

5:38

only preparation necessary was to heat

5:40

the water. Then I'll take the

5:43

lid off the can. Mm -hmm. Two

5:45

of G. Washington's coffee crystals in

5:48

your cup. And one

5:50

in mine. Add

5:52

the hot water. Yeah. There

5:58

you are. Help yourself to

6:00

cream, Mr. Roosevelt. Thank you. That's

6:04

good. You're a

6:06

perfect host, Dr. Watson. No,

6:08

I'm not. You're pulling my

6:10

leg. Being a good host to the

6:12

G. Watkinson's coffee, Mr. Bell, is

6:14

no trouble at all. It only takes

6:16

a minute, and it's just easy

6:18

to make as a slice of toast,

6:20

or as easy to use as granulated sugar.

6:23

How's that for freshness and convenience?

6:25

Well, I'd say, like Sherlock

6:28

Holmes, it couldn't be beat. Oh,

6:30

no. Another hint, Mr. Bell. Well,

6:33

yes, we'd better get on with our

6:35

story, I suppose. What adventure are we to

6:37

start off with tonight, Dr. Watson? Might

6:39

it be if I tell

6:41

you how Sherlock Holmes solved the

6:43

case of the Hebraic breastplate. Hebraic

6:45

breastplate? Yes, it is. What a

6:48

famous museum piece. Some

6:50

authorities went so far as to

6:52

say it had been worn originally

6:54

by King Solomon himself. Then

6:56

it was supposed to have a

6:58

curse attached to it. To my

7:01

own personal knowledge, it caused the

7:03

death of two men and nearly

7:05

robbed an eminent scholar of his

7:07

good men. That sounds sufficiently ominous

7:09

for anyone, Dr. One. It was,

7:11

Mr. Bell. It was. Why, even

7:14

now, when I recall that night

7:16

in the dark deserted halls of

7:18

the Belmore Street Museum, with

7:20

the moonlight sliding slowly from

7:22

one of those incredible mummy cases

7:25

to the other, There

7:27

I go, anticipating myself as

7:29

usual. Anticipation, I know you're starting

7:31

chills running up and down

7:33

my spine. Indeed, inconsiderate

7:36

of me wonder. Well,

7:39

plenty of time for that later on. In

7:41

any event, the whole thing

7:43

started one foggy afternoon in March

7:45

of the year of 1894. You

7:48

know, the sort of day we have in London

7:50

of that season? A yellowish

7:52

fog blue and cold dank waves

7:54

sound vacacy. There's no day

7:56

for venturing abroad, and yet that

7:58

was just what I was

8:00

planning to do. As

8:03

I entered the sitting room of

8:05

our lodging, inserting my top hat, I

8:08

found the placing even wilder this

8:10

order than usual. In the

8:12

midst of this chaos

8:14

at home, his long -tapering

8:16

fingers and his hawk -like

8:18

nose intent on a singularly

8:20

unsavory mess of chemical

8:22

abracadabra. The torch, the ease

8:24

and boils, the weird

8:26

blue flame of a Bunsen

8:28

burner was reflected in his eyes.

8:56

Two, three,

8:59

six, seven, eight,

9:02

nine, nine,

9:04

nine, nine, nine,

9:10

nine,

9:14

nine, nine, nine, nine,

9:19

nine. Is that substance blood, human

9:21

blood? That's the important question.

9:23

Now, we have a

9:25

few fight pursuers, and we

9:28

wait for the reaction. Hmm.

9:31

I think so. Hmm. The water's

9:33

changing color. It's kind of

9:35

dumb -hungry. Yes, and there's a

9:37

distinct brownish dust precipitated at the

9:39

bottom of the resort. Magnificent.

9:42

Positively magnificent water. The old

9:44

white human microscopic test for the

9:46

blood corpuscles which comes in uncertain.

9:48

But this test, the Sherlock Holmes

9:50

test, is infallible. A prisoner

9:52

is guilty, Watson. Guilty as the devil. That

9:55

Brown is to precipitate or hang him. Holmes,

9:57

you know your scientific cold bloodedness gives me

9:59

the creep. Ah, nonsense, Watson, nonsense. You wouldn't

10:01

hesitate to shoot down a hawk that had

10:03

been preying on your livestock, would you? Why

10:05

hesitate to destroy the criminal who's been spacking

10:07

on the blood of human beings? Must

10:10

you be so graphic in

10:12

your descriptions, Holmes? Where's

10:14

my hat? What hat? My top hat,

10:16

of course. I left it in here

10:18

when I came in from using my

10:20

patience this morning. How anyone

10:22

can expect to find anything in all

10:24

these little... Well, if you count

10:26

the track of your own wearing a

10:28

paddle, I'm sure that I can...

10:30

Oh, well, that wouldn't be it by

10:32

any chance. Where? There on

10:34

the floor, by the desk. Oh,

10:36

I say, Holmes, if

10:38

you use this as a waste paper basket again...

10:41

I'm sorry, Watson, sorry, but if you were to

10:43

leave it about, what would you want for the

10:45

half this late in the afternoon, surely

10:47

you're not thinking of venturing out

10:49

into this foul weather? I am, I

10:51

most certainly am. Furthermore, it may

10:53

interest you to know that since you've

10:55

become involved in this Seapop case, the

10:58

house smells like a cross

11:00

between a crate of distinctly

11:03

senile eggs in the back.

11:05

The weather may be foul, but it's

11:08

not as foul as the atmosphere of

11:10

this room. My dear, no idea. You

11:12

were so delicate. Besides, I've just received

11:14

an invitation from my friend Ward Mortimer

11:16

to go round to the Belmore Street

11:18

Museum and view the collection. Mortimer's

11:20

about to take over the curator's ship,

11:22

I believe. And what's become of the

11:24

old curator, Professor Andrews? It can't be

11:27

much over fifty -five and the reputation

11:29

of his management and lecture courses was

11:31

excellent. He turned in his resignation at

11:33

the last meeting, the board of trustees,

11:35

and... Yes, but for what reason? Oh,

11:37

something about failing eyesight, that they should

11:39

have a younger man in charge of

11:41

such a valuable collection. I

11:44

promised to accompany Mr. Mortimer on his

11:46

first tour of inspection this afternoon. They

11:48

say the professors are wonder. That's why

11:51

I'm particularly anxious to go. So now

11:53

what Mortimer is trying to fill the

11:55

professor's shoes, huh? I thought

11:57

he was still excavating near Thebes in

11:59

the Valley of the Kings. Oh,

12:01

no. After Mortimer acumed what's believed to

12:03

be the money of Cleopatra in

12:05

the inner room of the Temple of

12:07

Horns, he decided to come home.

12:09

So he found it, did he? Yes,

12:11

I thought he met. Watson,

12:14

I think I'll join you in your visit

12:16

to the Bell and Wall Street Museum. I took

12:18

care of how much you want, didn't I?

12:20

No matter what, no matter. Lord Mortimer will be

12:22

delighted to see me. It was I who

12:24

suggested to him that he should dig it finally

12:26

for Cleopatra's remaining. Besides, now that

12:29

you mention it, the air in

12:31

this room is a bit tainted. Yes,

12:33

it might be as well to go

12:35

elsewhere until the room out there's way.

12:56

Well, this is a unexpected

12:58

pleasure. delighted to see you again,

13:00

Mr. Mortimer. So you found the lady

13:02

where I told you to look for her?

13:04

In Cleopatra? Yes, indeed I did. But

13:06

how in the world do you think was

13:08

there to be honest? You know, I

13:10

keep telling him he's lucky he wasn't born

13:12

a few centuries back. He just, he

13:14

burns the witchcraft. Oh, nonsense. Well, nonsense. The

13:16

whole matter was extremely simple. Nearly the

13:18

correct interpretation of an old papyrus that has

13:20

never been correctly translated before. So

13:22

let's decide the point. I believe we are here

13:24

to see the treasures of the museum. Of course.

13:27

I'm a very defective host, I would

13:29

say. I don't believe you met Professor

13:31

Andrews. How do you do, gentlemen? This

13:33

is a great privilege, Professor Andrews. You're

13:35

very kind, gentlemen. And this is my

13:37

valuable assistance, cutting broken school, Mr. Modena.

13:39

He's wise and brave to stay honest.

13:41

The first thing that's been invited to

13:43

join in this tradition is that we

13:45

came from digging up ghastly relics in

13:47

Asia Minor. We feel we have just

13:49

located the site of the ancient city

13:51

of Troy. Just think what would

13:53

mean, gentlemen, to see the very halls where

13:55

Helen lives, to walk the streets where

13:57

a killing takes place. There you are. It's

14:00

what I call the beginning fever. All

14:02

archaeologists suffer from the curly attacks of it.

14:04

That's the color. Let us begin out, rather

14:07

than take these. It's free. This is

14:09

a bunch of proud and aspired occasions, but

14:11

in any event, My love of the

14:13

collection is, I hope, greater than any personal

14:15

regret. This museum leads the

14:17

supervision and protection of a man in

14:19

full protection of all his faculty.

14:21

Oh, no, professor. my favorite

14:23

fighter, however, in that respect. There

14:26

are 15 rooms in this museum, gentlemen,

14:28

all given over to the sessions of

14:30

the audience. for these four in which

14:32

they are now standing, which contains the

14:34

Jewish and Egyptian collections, is undoubtedly the

14:36

pick of the lot. Now, let us

14:38

take the Jewish side first. Here

14:41

is what I've convened to you. The

14:43

only authentic duplicate of the famous seven

14:45

grand scandals taken the sample, which was

14:47

brought to Rome, as you know, by

14:49

Titus, and which is lying at Davidson,

14:51

somewhere in the mud in the dead

14:53

of the river Tiber. And

14:55

here, in this case, is perhaps

14:57

the most valuable artist in the

14:59

entire museum. Now, we're afraid that's

15:01

a piece of talk. Oh, yes,

15:03

sir, here we are. And

15:07

say it is a

15:09

beauty, whatever it is. Twelve

15:11

enormous tones, all different colors,

15:13

like paints in the paint

15:16

box, and set in gold. Each

15:19

tone has some... there's

15:21

scratches on its surface. Though nothing to

15:23

keep you out of this, Dr. Watson,

15:25

which is the Jury in Tuning? The

15:27

Jury in Tuning was the name given

15:29

to the Jewel's plate, which lay on

15:32

the best of the high priest of

15:34

the Jews. Which fact you would remember,

15:36

Watson, if you'd paid better attention in

15:38

your Sunday school days? No, really. Home

15:40

to home is correct, gentlemen. The Jewel's

15:42

best place of the high priest was

15:44

held in a peaceful reverence by the

15:46

ancient hebe. From what I see, the

15:48

benign books were regarded in the capital

15:50

of Rome. The particular you're even feeling

15:52

is the most magnificent in existence. In

15:54

fact, I believe that he corrects me

15:56

saying that it belongs originally to Solomon

15:58

himself. At any rate, those characteristics are

16:00

supposed to be the curse of Solomon.

16:05

Yes, yes. This best

16:07

stage is supposed to bring death to anyone who

16:09

may be later informed the promise. But I don't

16:11

find no one to catch me looking at myself.

16:13

I've been allowed to handle it. I see. In

16:15

other words, something has occurred which leads you to

16:18

believe the curse is still in effect. Well, I'm

16:20

not what you would call this a suspicious man,

16:22

myself. And yet, within a

16:24

week of the time, we're not talking

16:26

this museum. The night fortune was

16:28

found dead by morning with the best

16:30

days in his hand. He mainly repented

16:32

to steal their property. Jurors, as magnificent

16:34

as these, are bound to be of

16:37

great condition. However, I must

16:39

say that since the first calamity became

16:41

known, it has been left entirely

16:43

unblessed. Yes, the stung are remarkably large,

16:45

and may I see them more

16:47

closely, please? Oh, you will pardon me

16:49

if I have seen two causes,

16:51

but I would rather you be constantly

16:53

seen. I would like to bring

16:55

my curiosity I

16:58

see it's quite understandable. I'm sure

17:00

they only wish to determine their

17:02

participation. Oh, I can tell you

17:04

that. Counting from the

17:06

left hand corner, the

17:08

stones are Carnelian, Ceridon, Cerberus,

17:10

Ruby, Lepidazuli, Solic,

17:12

Sapphire, Agit, Amethyst,

17:14

Sotan, Cerio, and

17:17

Jasper. Captain Wilkins, who

17:19

is a practical authority upon precious stones,

17:21

will tell you that these are exactly

17:23

pure. Oh, quite. And the gold. Well,

17:25

if you go to work with occasions,

17:27

if you look there closely, the time

17:29

is better. Er, pardon me for justin',

17:31

but you'll find a finer example of

17:33

the Jewish gold working mechanically in the

17:35

next few. Oh, quite so, Wilkins. Quite

17:37

so. And we can all handle that.

17:39

I see it. Well, come, gentlemen. Uh,

17:42

Wilkins, you will return this precious piece

17:44

to me. Thank you, Mr. President. And

17:46

make sure the piece is locked. Oh,

17:48

absolutely. And care to keep. And now

17:50

gentlemen, sixty -fifty -two standard six. Uh,

17:52

one moment, Professor. This, uh, mummy case.

17:54

This is, uh, Reece's, in fact, position I

17:56

take it. Yes, sir, certainly, but, uh,

17:58

how do you know? Well, there is a

18:00

tiny particle of excelency affecting it still

18:02

on the floor. Ah, so there is, yeah,

18:04

yeah. I don't think the teeny woman

18:06

is getting carried again. Oh, about this mummy

18:09

case, surely it is of Egyptian origin,

18:11

and yet she placed it here among the

18:13

Judean relics. Ah, very nice point, Mr.

18:15

Holmes. The mummy case is untouched. We have

18:17

Egyptian mummy culture. I guess it is,

18:19

uh, yes. You never know. You could follow

18:21

it in a temple. Probably the last

18:23

resting place of some high priest who admired

18:25

the Egyptian culture. These various oriental civilizations

18:27

are going over here. Yes, sir, but does

18:29

the case still contain the money? Oh,

18:31

yes, indeed. The

18:33

high priest returns to what you were

18:35

in the feeling which he wore

18:37

some thousands years ago. Yes, sir,

18:39

it is true, sir. No

18:41

one can be... the

18:44

hell? What's this?

18:46

What's wrong? I'm

18:55

afraid the poor chap's dead. Not

18:59

entirely, Professor. Poor

19:01

chap is something that's tightly in his right

19:04

hand. Now, let's find out what it is. It's

19:07

ordinary, as I could have said it

19:09

already. Yes, I can

19:11

hardly stretch the finger up, reaching

19:13

the fingers. Yes.

19:16

Yes, yes, this is our thought. It's the

19:18

Jewish breastplate. So the professor can give

19:20

it to me, because I'm being happy, too.

19:22

Oh, come, it's your professor. The curse

19:24

has spent itself at least for the county

19:26

into that breastplate. I wish I'd never

19:29

lay eyes on your cursive thing. Well, there'll

19:31

be a horrible end to my term

19:33

of office. Professor Andrews, Wilson's death, if I

19:35

am not greatly mistaken, is not an

19:37

end to anything. It's

19:39

just the beginning. It's

20:03

here, Holmes. Do you have to eat

20:05

all the kippers? I'm merely doing it to

20:07

prevent you from blowing up, Watson. Your

20:09

way plan to disgrace. Here, pour

20:11

me out another cup of coffee, ladies and gentlemen. Why

20:13

is that what you are?

20:15

Utterly an irrevocably spoiled. That

20:18

is tragic. He's sudden death of that

20:20

poor young chap he has to be

20:22

off to noon. Who do you think

20:24

I'm meant to? I'm too dumb to?

20:27

Who'd have thought to look at him?

20:29

The fellow had a bad heart.

20:31

Wasn't his heart the cause of death,

20:33

Watson? It was Solomon's curse. Oh,

20:35

no, you're being fantastic. There's nothing fantastic

20:37

about that, just maybe, Watson. It's

20:39

pretty real, and it's... efficacious. Are you

20:41

babbling about? The ancient oriental poison

20:43

in the little meadow hidden in the

20:45

back of that Jewish breastplate. You

20:48

know, the ancient orientals, you would really

20:50

feel more about poisons in meadow than

20:52

heaven. You mean cut him with a

20:54

few loose poisons? Well, we'll be using.

20:56

You saw the ketanic convulsions, the extreme

20:58

post -mortem riker. You may

21:00

be right, but that may be. I

21:02

am right. Wilson was killed by

21:04

the jolly little mechanism hidden at the back

21:07

of the breastplate. Yes, it is that needle

21:09

thing in the Bobb's field work, so can

21:11

you do more on the authorities or something?

21:13

No, no, no, necessarily. Now, you're shattering the

21:15

poor old professor, but the idea that the

21:17

death of his guard and his assistant may

21:19

have been prevented? Yes, but what if someone

21:21

else gets himself punched? Well, it's not very

21:23

likely Watson. You see, I took the precaution

21:26

of removing the little pin before I handed

21:28

the thing back to Professor Andrew. Well, then,

21:30

if the days if you move, what made

21:32

you say that Wilkins' death was just the

21:34

beginning of the trouble? Come

21:36

in, come in. Oh, Mrs.

21:38

Hudson. And in the role of Hermes,

21:41

if I'm not mistaken. Who's she? Ah, he,

21:43

Mrs. Hudson. He, Hermes, was the messenger

21:45

of the Greek gods. You mean the one

21:47

with the feathers on his head and

21:49

on his feet? Yes. I'll thank you not

21:51

to compare me with the likes of

21:53

him, Mr. Holmes. I've got more clothes on,

21:55

I hope. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Quite,

21:57

quite. I was merely alluding to the letter

21:59

you were having in your hand addressed

22:01

to me, if I'm not mistaken. It is

22:03

that. And what more? It is urgent. Come

22:05

by and if you the mission is

22:07

waiting in a cab outside. I don't

22:09

see where we'll see what is all

22:11

about. Yeah.

22:15

Yeah. We

22:17

have been robbed. Come

22:20

at once. Signed ward Mortimer. I

22:22

want them to get your hat. You will

22:24

have the answer to your question. I hardly hope

22:26

it will come so soon. As

23:03

you can see, Mr. Holmes, the breastplate has been

23:05

tampered with. Someone must have done it during the

23:07

night. It's getting to the first six stones of

23:09

luck and gag at it, if it's someone who's

23:11

shaped around them. Let's be near as if someone

23:13

had been trying to take out the stones, there,

23:15

Holmes. My theory is that he not

23:17

only tried but succeeded, Dr. Watson, and these

23:19

six stones are imitation. You may put aside your

23:21

fears, and that's all, Mr. Mortimer. I'll state

23:23

my reputation with all six of these stones as

23:26

genuine. Thank heaven for that. In what in

23:28

the world does the thief want? Perhaps if we

23:30

consult Professor Andrews in the matter, we might

23:32

try to get in touch with him, but it

23:34

seems that he left the coffin last night.

23:36

Good day. Did he watch me hear

23:38

anything in the night? I've questioned him thoroughly. I

23:40

promised him. He made his ground four times as

23:42

usual, but at no time did he see or

23:44

hear anything in this. And yet this job must

23:46

have taken a better part of eight hours to

23:48

complete. Now, could this thief have entered through the

23:50

window? Possibly. Or

23:52

heavily barred. Furthermore, I myself attended to the

23:54

locking and bolting of the main door

23:56

last night. All the locks and bolts were

23:58

intact this morning. And that skylight up

24:00

there, now, where does that lead? That goes

24:03

onto the lumber room, Mr. Cosey. But

24:05

it's remained unopened for years, as you can

24:07

see by the dust on it. Well,

24:09

whatever openings are there to the museum? It's

24:11

door to my private room. But

24:14

even that is locked at night, and in

24:16

order to reach it, anyone to the street

24:18

would have to open my outer door as

24:20

well. And neither you nor the watchman heard

24:22

anything? Not at all. Significant. Where

24:24

is the significant? Yes,

24:26

what can I think? A night spent in

24:28

the lumber room upstairs is indicated. The

24:30

work is not finished. Six of

24:33

the stones remain untouched. And

24:35

I'm very anxious to see the intruder

24:37

who can slide to a locked

24:39

door and who is completely invisible to

24:41

our night watchman, Mr. Mortimer. Get

25:03

off that boardwalks and it creeps like

25:05

a rusty hinge. I'm thinking it's

25:07

as dark as the inside of my pocket

25:09

up here. It

25:12

might stumble over something and

25:14

let it turn up mistaken as

25:17

the skylight we've discovered, yes,

25:19

sir? Let me feel the

25:21

glass. It's so covered with dust, you

25:23

can't see a thing. But let

25:25

me wipe it off. Stop, stop. Leave it alone. We

25:27

don't want to be visible to anyone from below.

25:29

What the hell are you about? I'll tear off the

25:31

people for you and run from myself. Now,

25:33

if you lie down on the floor and put your eyes

25:35

to the back. If you're my best trousers, the

25:38

case is filthy. Yeah, well, he

25:40

has here some sacking I brought along.

25:42

Oh, all right. I must say,

25:44

help me. Come

25:47

find that guy. What? You

25:50

sound like a 21 -gun salute. Do you

25:52

want a fight in the field? But I

25:54

didn't do it on purpose. Oh,

25:58

and when my shining in through the window

26:00

down there, it seems a bright spot. Weird,

26:04

as it can look in that

26:06

light. In mummy case,

26:08

it was almost in my eyes. What

26:11

the kid was eating?

26:13

Glow directed below, like

26:16

many colored eyes. There was a

26:18

bunch of gems in the Jewish... very

26:21

good reason that only six

26:23

of them are real. It's

26:25

useless. Never mind what I

26:27

said. Keep your arm on

26:29

that bedsheet. He

26:32

won't be able to wait

26:34

much longer. Oh, my head. In

26:36

that mummy case. Look, he's

26:38

hanging. But, Lord, there it is.

26:41

The lizard, sliding back. The

26:45

mummy case is opening

26:47

up. And

26:50

the real thief? Why

26:52

is he having the money? What

26:54

if it's the high priest? Well,

26:57

let's get out of here. I

26:59

don't know what's in. Don't breathe. It's

27:02

not the money. It's

27:04

a man. A small,

27:06

thin man. He's

27:08

feeling as the mummy takes. Like

27:11

a fox out of his bottle.

27:13

Turns his head quickly to the left

27:16

and right. I can't see the

27:18

face. He's

27:20

sneaking into the case. The

27:22

case contains the breastplate. Raises

27:25

the lid. Faces you

27:27

mean. Lord, it's Professor

27:30

Andrew. He says you can found it. He's trying

27:32

to get away. Take the gas, Watson. When the

27:34

shop's through and take it. Here,

27:36

hold him up, Watson. Oh, no, no,

27:39

no, no, no, no, no. Hold him up. Hold him

27:41

up. Take the gas. Are you coming? Have you got

27:43

it? Yes, take the gas. Don't let him go, Watson.

27:45

No, dear. Who's

27:48

Lord? It's Professor Andrews. Of

27:50

course, I knew it from the first.

27:52

Still on the feet. No, no, you're wrong,

27:54

Mortimer. Professor Andrews is not the thief. The

27:57

thief is dead. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. I

27:59

rarely my conduct is entirely reprehensible. I realize

28:01

that... I am not a thief. In fact,

28:03

I didn't see an eye to do with

28:05

heavy stones until I found them in Captain

28:07

Wilson's effect after his death. Yes, I knew

28:09

they were false when I saw them yesterday

28:11

afternoon, Professor. I didn't want to spoil your

28:13

last day in office. No, that was very

28:15

kind of you, Mr. Holmes. When Wilson told

28:17

him I don't know, you see, I'd have

28:19

been failing for some time, and although I

28:21

used to be a very good judge, you're

28:23

precious. But Holmes, you told me yourself this

28:25

morning that those jewels were real. Only the

28:27

first six, my dear Mortibard. Only the first

28:29

six. Professor Andrews replaced those last night. Unfortunately,

28:31

his candid work was not as neat as

28:33

Wilson's had been. You're probably to his failing

28:35

eyesight, and you were able to detect it.

28:37

Yes, but, Professor Andrews, when you found the

28:39

jewels, why didn't you inform the police? What

28:41

could have ever done? It was a discredited

28:43

by the whole regime. And back in the

28:45

name of Captain Wilson, no, surely he'd paid

28:47

the punishment of his time. Furthermore, I owed

28:50

it to him. After all, I knew of

28:52

that poison needle. I thought the mechanism of

28:54

control he wouldn't work in his tool, but

28:56

I, to the credit, refused. Well, don't blame

28:58

yourself too severely, Professor. Because

29:00

of Wilson's death, so it's further back for

29:02

many of us to remember. Back to

29:04

the curse of Solomon. After

29:06

all, he had laid profane hands upon

29:08

the breastplate of the high priest, and

29:11

the wrath of the God of

29:13

the beard is not to be taken

29:15

lightly. A

29:30

remarkable story, Dr.

29:32

Watson. But how did Sherlock

29:34

Holmes deduce that it was Professor

29:36

Andrews who had tampered with the

29:38

breastplate? As Holmes would say, elementary,

29:40

Mr. Bell, elementary, Professor

29:43

Andrews is the only person who

29:45

knew the nice washman's routine, and

29:47

could therefore keep out of his

29:49

ways. Besides, Holmes figured

29:51

that Professor Andrews had probably retained

29:53

his keys to the curator's door,

29:56

and could therefore slip in and

29:58

out of the museum at will. Simple,

30:01

isn't it? And you know it done. As

30:03

simple as making a cup of

30:05

G. Washington coffee. There you go, pulling

30:08

my leg again, Mr. Burl. If

30:10

the solution of that crime were as

30:12

easy as making this coffee why,

30:14

a four -year -old child could have solved

30:16

it. And here and here, like

30:18

another cup. Elementary, Dr. Watson, elementary. You

30:20

can't go wrong on that deduction. Of

30:23

course I want another cup, but can't

30:25

I have one of the new one cup

30:27

services and my own? Well, I I

30:30

see they fascinate you as they do everyone

30:32

who sees them. Care

30:34

out open the soft metal top.

30:36

Oh, yes. Then

30:38

the fresh crystals into your

30:40

cup. Add the

30:42

hot water. And

30:46

there's a cup of fragrance coffee as

30:48

fresh as fresh can be. There's no

30:50

end to G. Washington in Dr. Watson.

30:53

Next week at this same hour,

30:55

Dr. Watson will be with us

30:57

again with another of his famous

30:59

stories of the adventures of Sherlock

31:02

Holmes. Here Thank

31:18

you. go. Welcome

32:02

back. You

32:04

gotta love the opening and

32:06

closing George Washington coffee

32:08

commercial. One thing that they

32:10

play on here, and

32:12

this is particularly

32:14

true since this is

32:16

1934, they

32:18

play on this idea that

32:21

Dr. Watson is still alive

32:23

and that And that he

32:25

is talking about his adventures

32:27

with Sherlock Holmes and that

32:29

that that would be thoroughly

32:31

possible Given that most of

32:33

Holmes's adventures happen towards the

32:36

end of the century

32:38

were in 1933 so

32:40

it's not inconceivable that

32:42

Dr. Watson could be

32:44

kicking around and coming

32:46

on to hawk some

32:48

George Washington coffee, I

32:50

guess Really nice sponsorship

32:52

and placement there As

32:55

for the adventure itself, I

32:58

have to say it dragged on

33:00

a little bit. I

33:02

think the story was just a little

33:04

off, and so it wasn't perhaps the

33:06

best -paced story, but we get to

33:08

know new homes, new wards, and get

33:10

kind of a mystery here. And

33:13

we'll see if there's better

33:15

things to come. This is

33:17

actually the last of the

33:19

1934 episodes. So

33:21

we'll be back with

33:23

actually a 1935 episode

33:25

of Sherlock Holmes. Next

33:28

week, join us Friday is,

33:30

of course, our dollar day with

33:32

yours truly, John Adolar. Check

33:34

out the show notes site, greatdetectives

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.net. Got any comments? Feel free

33:38

to email me. Box 13

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at GreatDetectives .net. But for now,

33:42

I thank everybody so much for

33:44

listening. From Boise, Idaho, this

33:46

is your host, Adam Graham, signing

33:48

off.