Dr. John H. Watson
speaker
3,490 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Dr. John H. Watson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That would truly be a coup de matre.
He surely never would.
Well, I rather doubt it.
There are limits even to his intelligence.
No, no, I think we are safe enough, old friend.
And now there's time for a pipe, I fancy.
Won't you join me, Watson?
And thus it befell.
As we hid behind a pile of luggage at Canterbury, we saw the single carriage of the special go thundering past us.
And so we made our way across country and at last reached Switzerland.
It seemed we had eluded him.
To fill in every detail of the final scene is hardly possible since there was no witness to it.
Yet, from a certain source that I cannot yet divulge, I do know something of that last encounter.
We wandered at our will through the lovely valley of the Rhône and made our way by way of Interlaken to the little township of Mirigan among the Alps.
The fatal Monday came and went, and yet I was still aware of a strange, febrile excitement in my companion.
He was at times feverishly on the alert,
then sinking into reverie, and would smile strangely to himself.
I went with him, on that last day of all, on a visit to the falls of Reichenbach, forever hallowed and yet cursed in my memory.
It's a fearful place indeed, with a torrent plunging far below into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined by cold black glistening rock,
High above, a pathway's been cut in the cliff face to afford a better view, but it ends abruptly in mid-air, and the traveller has to return as he came.
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