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They got into my neighbor's coop and had it a light full time. Fortunately, they were no casualties, but I'm afraid that my good neighbor policy has suffered a slight diplomatic strain. But you come here to listen to Sherlock Holmes' adventures, not those of my dogs, so throw up your usual chair and make yourself comfortable. And I'll get on with tonight's story. Last week, Dr. Utolis, it was a case in which Sherlock Holmes found the solution without ever meeting any of the suspects. Yes, correct, Mr. Barton. It was remarkable in an exhibition of long distance detection as I ever recall, but it's a story for yourself, my boy. In the autumn of 1903, Sherlock Holmes was about to retire to his beef arm on the Sussex Downs. I must confess, Mr. Barton, that my heart was heavy during those last few weeks we spent at Baker Street. I thought of the countless adventures that we shared together. I remember those many evenings of quiet comership and companionship. A far blazing away in the heart, as Holmes laid back in the shadows, playing his beloved

violin. And then Mr. Barton saw up and happened. There'd be a violent jangle on our doorbell, and some wretched soul in misery would be standing before us, and porting out his troubles. Some of the violin would be discarded, and Holmes' dreamer would become Holmes, the man of action. Come watch the games of footage there. And in a few moments later, we'd be wracking off in a cab through the foggy, gassed at London Street. Yes, Dr. Hackin' Imagine It Was Pretty Hard for You to Lead Baker Street. It was, Mr. Barton. However, in the front part, there was one more adventure awaiting us before we left. A few days before the actual move, I persuaded Holmes to take an afternoon off from his packing and accompany me on a visit to the laboratory of an old friend of mine. A professor Jean Boulin. He was an eminent French scientist engaged in very important work at the London University. But by the way, this was a superior Mr. Bartel when Radium was something extremely new to an extremely rare.

The university had just acquired a menu, but invaluable portion of the element, and Professor Boulin was in charge of a research connected with it. I can remember the picture so well, as Holmes stood in the bar, talking with keen interest. It was a distinguished start. Amazing, Professor Boulin. Quite amazing. I think because tiny laden vessel contains one of the most precious substances in the world. Thank you, Mr. Holmes. They have a great deal to thank Madame Cooley for. The new element made for us entirely to advise our concepts of all physical structure. You're a search as a great responsibility, Boulin. It is what's in my mind. I must be the best. That I wish your authorities here would give me a free hand. I possess its infinite possibilities in the use, particularly the medical use of Radium. But my conservative superior seemed to regard it only as a toy, a scientific curiosity. And limit your experiments according as best? Exactly. And give you no opportunity to do anything that's in the East Radical.

Must be very disheartening. How can research ever get anywhere along those lines? It is a great misfortune, Holmes, that you've determined to attire to your beef arm. This project we could use such an analytical mind as yours. You flatter me, Professor. How many assistants do you have working with you, Boulin? Three. But none of them are very inspired, I'm afraid. My best assistant is a Mackin Parker. He's a little armoured conservative by two. But he is extremely adroit. The other two, a young man called Taylor and the girl Gladys Hughes, they mean well. But Gorsh, I fear, is the only word to describe them. Well, what do you like? I would just amuse to observe that in describing my assistants I chance to be literal as well as figurative. It's odd that random symbolism can sometimes, it would never mind that. You would like to see that still a little bit. Here, here, here, here, here, here. I have some extraordinarily interesting photographic traits that record the emanations of radium.

They're over here. I think you will find their most fascinating. Baker Street, particularly when our rooms are full of packing cases, seems rather drab after the scientific simulations of Professor Boulin's laboratory in the middle of Japan. Yes, it seems drab, even if we hadn't been to see him, I feel frightfully depressed. I just don't know what I'm going to do with our partners to the young man Watson and a susceptible one. You'll marry again. No, no, I won't. This is too low, chef. And you'll end up by being glad that your old room mate, your difficult, rather unsusable old room mate, is living in retirement on the Sussex down. Well, bitch, I shall not feel anything of the kind. In any case, I don't think you will be able to stay in retirement for long. Your mind is much too aloof to be satisfied by being a sort of midwife to a bunch of beastly beings. Oh dear Watson. I feel it will never eat honey again. Yes, you can laugh, Holmes, but I could see how excited you were when Boulin suggested

you might help him with his radio experiment. I'm suffering suggestion, I must have picked my devil, I just the same, my whole level's out. From the urgency of the tag on the door, Paul, I'd say that it was a clown. You don't hate him off, will you, won't you? Yes, I'll do my best. Oh, I'll watch and explain that I can go longer and practice. Too late, Holmes, he's fast-passed, Mrs. Hudson. Here he comes rushing up the stairs. Oh, I can't find it. I beg your pardon, sir, you'll be doing your bit. You'll be doing your bit. No, I am not sure. Then you must be Mr. Holmes. That is my name, sir. But may I ask what accounts you are rather world-willed in entrance? My housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, I have no time to consider etiquette. My sister, Gladys Hughes, is vanished. Vanished into thin air. You've got to find her for me, Mr. Holmes. I'll pay you any fee of name, but you've got to find her. Mr. Hughes, I'm extremely sorry that your sister has vanished, but I'm afraid that I can do nothing to help you. I'm retiring, I'm giving up my practice. If you won't help me, I'll go to someone who will. That's exactly what I mean, sir. I suggest that you go to the police, or if you insist on a private investigator, I can strongly recommend Mr. Martin Schewitz. Yes. His address is 39 Pont Street Night's Bridge. Good day to you. Thank you.

36 Pont Street Night. Mr. Martin. You must like an unsuitantist concern, but his manners are a great deal to be designed. Holmes, Holmes. Gladys Hughes is missing sister. That was the name of one of Professor Bullock's assistants, well, huh? Two of them, but it's probably only a coincidence. What? Both Christian and Sir names are extremely common ones. Well, I have a feeling that it may not be a coincidence. Come now, my dear fellow. No, you'd try and then bribe me in a fresh adventure. I retire, and I'm leaving for Sussex in a few days. And if any more plans come, won't she get my door bill? I shall ignore them. But Mr. Holmes, you've got to help me. My son, Jeffrey Barker has to appear. I'm sorry, Mrs. Barker, but I'm afraid I'm not. Holmes, Jeffrey Barker was the name of Professor Bullock's Chief Assistant. Watson, please believe me when I say that I'm not to be embigued. Do you want to do any further? Mrs. Taylor, I'm sorry that I can't help you.

Oh, but Mr. Holmes, it's my husband. He's disappeared. We've only been married three months and now it's terrible. I've been so worried. Ever since he started to work on that strange new radio with Professor John Bullock? Holmes, you can't pretend it's going since it's any longer. Dennis Hughes, Jeffrey Barker and Outtaylor, the three assistants of Professor Bullock. Professor Bullock, I know it's Watson. Mrs. Taylor, the moving van will be hit tomorrow to take my things to Sussex. I shall follow them immediately. I have retired, madam. Do you understand that? Rectired. There's another telegram for Holmes. A little bit of a pause today. Why was scuffing up and got me along? It's a pretty strange business. Three people engaged in research of this new element radium. All disappeared within 40 hours. Stuck them yard needs your help. Let them earn their salaries, my dear watching. I've helped them for the last time. Let's see how they've cut their latest diffusion. This isn't from Scott and yard. It's from my brother, my croft.

What's he got to say? Isn't it this? Now Professor Bullock has disappeared. Great scuff and the radium within. Surely the pattern is obvious, Sherlock. Radiant must have found. Could sort the problem for you. But I'm too lazy. Consider what a flashy case for you to retire on regards my croft. Oh, the old devil. Holmes is a shucky. I old friend Bullock has disappeared. Yes, Watson, and now my brother asks me to investigate. The pressure becomes irresistible. Very well. I bow to fate and postpone my retirement for a few hours. Good man. You know you'll never really retire. Obviously, yes, my croft says there's an obvious pattern in this case. First, Stefan Koss will be to interview all the doctors who treat patients without charge. You why? Surely that's obvious. Well, it's in the tall obvious that we are. You know why you always leave me in the dark. Well, what makes you laugh? In that in the dark. It's just like the old times in the Holmes. Come on, old fellow, let's go. The games are fucked.

Dr. McDonald, this is Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I'm very glad to meet you. And are you, Dr. McDonald? I swear that I've never been as many doctors offices as I have there. Mr. Holmes is in search of some information. Perhaps Dr. Newton helped him. I'll do my best. So what do you want to know, Mr. Holmes? Whether you have any charity patients with skin eruptions or growths of any kind. I mean, patients that have not kept their appointments recently, perhaps. Now, let me see. Wait, what, yes, I do. Old Mrs. Pendle. She had a very bad taste of lupus. She took you for a treatment here yesterday. I'm not seeing nothing of her. Spend it. Can you give me her address? Well, certainly. It's in the book here. Well, I hope this isn't the false trial, Holmes. You can only explore it and see the chap. Here we are, Mrs. Pendle. 36 L Gardens Clapham. Mrs. Pendle, 36 L Gardens. Clapham. Thank you, Dr. I'm greatly obliged to you.

Any rest, Ms. Watson? Yes, I am a little. We've been waiting outside Mrs. Pendle's house for a minute. How do we knock in the door? Oh, no, no, no, my poor chap. We mustn't fight, ma'am. I hope that she's going to lead us to our quarry. You see, sheesh. Something was opening. The woman is coming out. Mrs. Pendle, beyond that. Look at that damage. On the other part of her face. Hello, she's turning down the speed. We're going to follow her as well. And, shall we? Let's give her a start. We don't want her to spot us. Well, while we're waiting, ma'am, you care about it to point for me. I'm still very much in the dark. The pleasure of a chap, a puzzle is your own. Well, one of the things that I want to... You're giving her enough of a start. Let's follow her. Oh, well, well, well. But look here. You asked me what I didn't understand. Two things, Puzzle Mayor. What did Mike off mean by the pact in the case? Why are we following a poor sick old lady through the London street? I'll answer the first question. And I think the answer to the second will be self-apparent. The pattern of the case is clear.

For Puzzle Bulland, his three assistants of Bannock, together with the Radium, but their disappearances were not some old teamers. Had they been so, it would have been a transparent case of theft. But with the disappearances gradual rather than simultaneous, the emphasis has been subtly shifted. Yeah, I can see that, Holmes. But what you suppose is that the back of the whole business can't be a simple case of theft. Radium is enormous available. But it'd be hard stuff to sell again. Not when I'm scrupulous criminal with a knowledge of medicine Watson. My own theory, and I admit at the moment that it's purely a theory, is that Professor Bulland was worried because he was so hampered in his research. You remember that he stressed his great fate in the medical values of the viewers. The new element of the radium. Yes, yes, yes, yes, he did. They told him. Your path to pharmacy can be closer than you think. West Coast University's hybrid doctor pharmacy program can be completed in his littleest 33 months, and no bachelor's degree is required to apply. If you've started pharmacy coursework elsewhere, WCU makes that eligible transfer credits to help students keep moving forward. To learn online, train hands on at our Center for Graduate Studies in Los Angeles

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a licensed California surplus lines broker. Be sure that it's not licensed or regulated by a California insurance commission. The possibility places the rights of science above the rights of poverty that he's determined that he and his group were carrying on their indeniable or research unhappered by the conservative restraints of the university. I see what you mean, happens, but how does Mrs. Pendle the poor woman were following into the picture? Because one of the chief lines of radio research on the continent so far has been with her sort of problem. Professor Bullock's obvious move, if my theory is correct, would be to contact poverty's to con patients, promise them relief, induce them to abandon their right-to-treatments and submit to him. By Jerry Holmes, that seems perfectly logical, and yet I can't believe that Bullock would be... Mrs. Pendle has reached a destination. He's turned on a driveway. Yes, she's walking up to what looks like it. A deserted way. Are you all right? I'm better out of our sight. She's open the door without knocking. She's gone in. I'll wait here for a moment to do. Then we'll follow her. I have a feeling that you're off when Professor Bullock

has not followed way what she's doing. You're probably right. I hope we can do something protective of the consequences of what he's done. It might easily mean the finish of a brilliant career. I'll do everything I'd power, but you know what's what I do. She's... Look, look, look, look. Mrs. Pendle's coming out again. Yes, she's in trouble. Come on. Yes, she's in trouble. Come on. Mrs. Pendle, what's wrong? I don't know how you know my name or who you're being, but you asked me what's wrong. They tell me to come here to this address and I find a doctor who dealt my face. I come here and what were I find? What did you find, Madam? A corpse. That's what I find. I did my mind there in a great pool of his own blood. You'll be the rest of Dr. Watson's story in just a second. So I'm just going to remind you that there's one wine which everyone likes and which is good on any occasion.

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Good devil. Murdered a cause. Yes, but examined him for yourself with you. Yes. Yes, there's no doubt about it. This wound couldn't have been self-inflicted. The right oracle of the heart has been pierced. I'm going to go with you just to make death took place. Well, about a couple of hours ago, I should say. Well, how to reconstruct the killing. The murderer came up from behind Boulin, as he sat here. Cryptomomer out his throat. Yes. See the finger marks on the right-hand side of the neck? Yes. Then stabbed him in the chest. Then with the jewel of the weapon and disappeared. Leaving no traces come found it. It does to your room as an ideal place for recording footprints, but half a dozen different prints here, including Mrs. Pendles. Hello. Here's the print of a smaller woman, too. Well, it must be out of Gannett's shoes, it's a system. And out of there, without really proves nothing except that she was here with him. The fact that he was convinced on any way. Hmm. Question is, come on. Let's go outside and document Mrs. Pendle again.

Boulin, Boulin. What a shocking way to die. What a great loss to science. As soon as the murder must have stolen the radio, we found no trace of it in there. And out at least the possession of the radio was the motive for the murder. Mrs. Pendle. Poor Mary's dead, I'm too sorry. I'm a friend so, madam. I knew it. I never should have come here. I never should have left Dr. McDonald. Mrs. Pendle, let me ask you a question. I can't be answering no question, sir. I don't know nothing about out of the poor soul, got his cells murdered. What would the poor woman like me know about such things? No, no, no, no, no, my good woman. My friend isn't suggesting at all. You know anything about the murder. Then what do you want to know, sir? Who told you to come to this address today, Mrs. Pendle? A young lady. Not a young lady, she was too. She met me coming out of Dr. McDonald's yesterday. And told me that if I come here today, I'd find a doctor who could cure me. Yeah, that was obviously the shoes, Holmes. I believe that your theory was right. Come on, Mrs. Pendle.

We'll escort you to the nearest police station where you were. You can report the murder. Yes, sir. And then, Martin, we must come attack the radiance. That perhaps is more important than any life. How are we going to do that? We have an accrue to go on. Remember that Professor Bola and his three assistants are still missing? We must go to the homes of each of them and see what can be found out. It's huge. You must realize by now that your sister's disappearance is part of something vastly more significant than you think. I must ask you and the my sister didn't disappear. What do you mean, sir? You came to us and said that you had? Or it was all a mistake, gentlemen. She came back today. She had just been down to the seaside for a short rest and she'd forgotten to let me know. I'm sorry to have bothered you. May I see your sister at once, please? I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes, but she's out just now. I don't know where she's gone. Or what time shall be back? This is Baca. I've come to you about your son's disappearance. I'm afraid that... Oh, but my son didn't disappear in his homes. It was on this understanding.

He came home today. Then may we speak to him, please, Mr. Baca. I'm afraid that's impossible. You see, he's... This is Taylor. I want to talk to you about your husband's disappearance. Oh, that. He came home this afternoon, Mr. Holmes. At first, I was so suspicious, but when he explained... Well, but I'm sure you know how it is in the first few months of marriage. Those... Those are the tears. Come, find it Watson. We are no nearer to the solution. Meanwhile, here we are back in Baca Street to find the moving there and has taken all your things off Sussex. Perhaps you should give up the case, Holmes, and follow them. Those, my career, on another failure. No, no, no, no, my dear fellow. I shall not leave London until this problem is solved. Oh, that case, I'll sit down. Looks to me as if it may prove a lengthy waste. I have really felt more frustrated, Watson. No free vanished technicians, home safely with plausible stories,

or at least plausible alibis, and poor Bula murdered, the radium stolen. Oh, I must say it makes no sense to me. Why it must make sense? The pattern was well enough to find in the beginning. It's just a question of finding the right key. In a way, it's clear enough what's happened. One of the three assistants placing the financial value of radium above its value to science, murdered Bula to obtain the prize. The other two, fearing that their complicity in the original part would involve them as accomplices in murder, ran home in a established in Alabama. The murderer did the same thing, for it's obvious one of the three must be the killer, and the thief. Yes, the question is, which one of the three is the culprit? If only Bula were alive, he could help us. My dear chap, if Bula and were alive, there would be no murderer. Of course, we wouldn't be worried. Let's see, let's see. Bula gave us a few bare facts about his three assistants. I wonder. But, of course, Watson!

I have the answer. The case is solved. What do you mean, Holmes? I've got to be solved. I haven't done enough investigation. It comes to that you haven't even seen an AVL-3 suspect. Yes, the sir. Oh, you noted it. Yes, Watson. And so should you. But we know nothing to accept them apart. We each other except that one of them is a girl. We know more than that, my dear. Follow the thing, card. Bula and Taylor said, Jeff Rebaka was an extant technician, while the other two were somewhat too... We know even more than that. That's why I know what, Holmes. I shan't even need to stay in London and follow the case through to its logical conclusion. A telegram to Microsoft and another to Scotland Yard today, Caravid. Yes. And I can be in Sussex before the moving ban, after all. You mean you're going now before the case is solved? But it is solved, Maria fellow. All the remains to be done is some purely of routine work. What's the time? Oh, do I look it? Hmm. Let's see, Caravid. I splendid it. We hardly been catched for 3.45 express from Waterloo. We? Yes, I was counting on you, spending a few days down there with me, old chap. I hope you can spare the time.

I should hate to make so drastic a change without my good old friend Watson at my side. Oh, good, good. Well, I'm delighted, but... But what, Maria boy? The case of the disappearing scientists. Wait until we get to Sussex, shall we? As soon as I get an answer to my telegrams, I'll explain the whole finger you. And now let's heart-chow it. Our train leaves in 40 minutes. What do you want, Watson? Thanks, I'll buy it. Ah, peaceful down here, isn't it? Excuse me, the moment I... I must confess, I find it rather nerve-wracking. Oh, why? You know why, Holmes? I want you to open that telegram and tell me if your solution to the Wolland case was the correct one. Hey, well, Maria Jeff. Let's see. What is it? It's my craft, listen. Third of all, arrested and radiant recovered. Well done, Sherlock, though you took longer than I expected, regards my craft.

Congratulations, Holmes. And now perhaps you'll consent to tell me, oh, it's all done. Down be angry with me, old chap. I only wanted to make sure that my solution was correct. You remember the nature of the fatal wound on Boulin's body? Of course. You'd be in stabs with the right oracle, the heart. From behind. Proving that the murder of us clearly, or right-handed. Oh, what does that signify? Almost everybody's right-handed. Oh, no, not in this case. If you recall, Professor Boulin said that a Jeffrey Barker was a droid, while his other two assistants were ghosts. Then he laughed because he said his fuck was true, both literally and figuratively. Oh, two, two, two, one, two, one. Oh, come on, I'll come. Hello. The think of the origin of the word, adroit. Adroit. Adroit is the French word for right. And ghosts is the word for left, meaning the two ghosts assistants were left-handed, and therefore only the adroit. The right-handed Barker, I could have been flicked at the fatal wound. I said, now Holmes, if you remember that mark of Boulin's at the time we found his body,

you could have solved the case much sooner. And then he said, you know, I don't know if you can solve that. And then he said, you know, I know, I know that I can solve that. And when my old friend Watson points out that my memory is failing, and my mind sluggish, then I know that my retirement has been postponed for far too long. Well, so Holmes really went through with his idea of becoming a B-Farmer. Of course, of course, it became one of his favorite hobbies. Do you know anything about the raising of B's? Oh, nothing at all. The only connection I've ever had with B's was very remote. Once I had the hives. Once you had the... Oh, no, no, no, Mr. Barker. Oh, yes, Dr. Watson. But seriously, I do know one thing about B's. Even when you're all about them, you're apt to get stunned. So I'll make my hobby, Petri-Wine. You know, you can't miss when you buy Petri-Wine,

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