Sherlock Holmes: The Darlington Substitution Case 01/04/1947 (Conway & Bruce)
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29 min
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4 chapters
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Well, once again, it's time for that weekly visit with our good friend and host, Dr. Watson. Let's join him, shall we? Ah, there you are, Mr. Bell. Good evening, Dr. Watson. Well, have you quite recovered from your holiday festivities?
I think so, my boy, and I was particularly flattered by the number of friends... who were kind enough to remember a rather elderly and lonely doctor at this time of year.
Well, as long as you keep telling those swell Sherlock Holmes stories, you'll never be lonely, Dr. Watson.
Then I'd better get on with tonight's new adventure. It involved us in one of the most shocking scandals of the 19th century, a scandal that, had it ever emerged in the light of day, might easily have brought ruin and disgrace to one of the most famous men who ever came a member of the House of Lords.
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Well, Mr. Bell, that adventure began in the very early days of the great man's career. World acclaim and handsome fees were some years ahead of him. And in those times, we spent many long evenings discussing whether a decent living could be obtained by the practice of criminal detection. On the day that this particular story began, we just finished our breakfast. Holmes, a curved pipe clenched between his teeth, was scanning the personal columns of the morning paper. I can almost hear him now, as he said, Demi Watson.
The agony column of the Times is more than usually barren this morning. Are you looking for a possible clown, Holmes? Naturally. Since we already owe Mrs. Hudson for two months' rent here, and our doorbell has been frighteningly silent during that period, I must see what possible service I may render these unhappy correspondents.
Well, I glanced over the column, but I couldn't see anything very promising.
No, Watson, it's a ragbag of bizarre happenings. What a chorus of groans, cries, and bleatings. One skims through them, and what does one glean? Lady with a black boa at the Prince's skating club wishes to meet gentleman who was kind enough to... That we may ignore, I think.
She doesn't sound as though she needs your services or mine.
Here's an item. Surely Jimmy will not break his mother's heart. That appears to be irrelevant. If the lady who fainted on the top deck of the Brixton bus... She doesn't interest me either, Watson. No? Probably anyone else who wasn't on that bus. Every day my heart longs for... Ah, bleat, Watson. All this twaddle is unmitigated bleat.
It is heartening, Holmes.
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